Dec. 6th Local Junior A Hockey Recap

The Yorkton Hyundai Terriers dropped their 2nd straight on their 3 game road-trip, losing 4-1 to the Nipawin Hawks on Friday night.

The Hawks would strike first with 4:40 to go in the 1st as he would bang home his 10th of the season by Ryan Ouellette to make it 1-0 for the home-team after 20 minutes.

Cox would add his 2nd of the night just 4:38 into the 2nd as he beat Ouellette over the right shoulder to make it a two goal game.

But just two minutes later, the Terriers would cut their deficit in half and it would be Kaedan Taphorn tapping home a rebound in front past Dalton Dosch for his 5th of the season and 3rd in as many nights to make it a 2-1 game (With an assist on the goal, Terrier captain Chantz Petruic recorded his 200th career SJHL point).

The Hawks though would respond with a PP goal of their own as Max Johnson would send in a point shot and the rebound came out to Jordan Simoneau right in front of the crease and he poked it five-hole on Ouellette for his 5th to make it a 3-1 Hawks lead through 40 minutes of play.

Nipawin would add some more insurance late in the 3rd as 20 year old Carson Erhardt would sneak one in short-side to make it a 3 goal game.

Hawks netminder Dalton Dosch made 26 saves on 27 shots to earn his 4th victory of the season while in a losing cause, Ryan Ouellette made 30 stops in the loss.

The Terriers' wrap up their road-trip on Saturday night with a visit to the Northern Lights Palace in Melfort against the Mustangs.

Elsewhere in the SJHL,

Luke Nkwama recorded a Hat-Trick while Zach Bannister (1G 2A) also had a 3 point night to the Melville Millionaires' to a 5-2 win over the Estevan Bruins.

Rin Beny also scored for the Mils who got a 30 save performance from Berk Berkeliev in the victory.

The Mils' will look for their 2nd straight W on Tuesday night when they visit the Notre Dame Hounds.  We will broadcast the game on GX94, with the "Sask Milk" pregame starting at 7:50 and the play by play kicking off at 8PM.


Other SJHL results:

Kindersley over Battlefords 3-2 (OT)

La Ronge over Flin Flon 6-5 (OT)

Melfort blanked Humboldt 3-0


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MJHL 

The Swan Valley Stampeders' began their 3 game weekend road-trip with a 5-2 victory over the Steinbach Pistons.

Mattia Dal Monte led the Stamps with 2G 1A while Leyson Coleman, Dante Fortner and Tommy Cardinal also scored.

Mikael Foucher made 26 saves in the win for Swan Valley.

Ty Naaykens and Bryce Young replied with markers for the Pistons.

The Stamps/Pistons will meet once again on Saturday from the T.G Smith Center at 7:30.

Meanwhile,

Rayman Bassi scored his 2nd goal of the game just 2:29 into overtime to lead the Waywayseecappo Wolverines to a 4-3 OT win over the Neepawa Natives.

Jacob Charko and Kris Bladen also scored for the Wolverines while Liam Tereposky made 20 saves on 23 shots to earn the victory in the Wayway goal.

Eli Lieffers, Konnor Carlson and Rylan Gudnason replied for Neepawa.

The Wolverines will return to action on Saturday when they travel to Neepawa for the back-end of the home & home series.

Also on Friday in MJHL,

Virden slipped by Winkler 4-3

Dauphin over Winnipeg 5-4 (OT)