Prairie Fire's Face-Off against Breast Cancer game set for February 17th

The Melville Prairie Fire are inviting you to join our 3rd Annual Face-off Against Breast Cancer battle.

 Our girls are known for being a hard working team on and off the ice as well with helping out in the community.

This year we have decided to continue fighting in this battle. A common killer to women, the team has decided to give their support towards the war against Breast Cancer.

We take pride in being female AAA hockey players, we take pride in our community and we take pride in knowing we can make a difference against one of the most common cancers against women.

On February 17th, at 4:00pm the Prairie Fire will take on the Regina Rebels at the Melville Horizon Credit Union Arena, this game will be our Face Off Against Breast Cancer game, all proceeds will go to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.

There will be door donations, a raffle table, and puck toss amongst many other planned events. At the end of the game, a cheque will be handed to a well-known individual within the community of Melville, accepting it on behalf of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.

If you have any questions or concerns about the Face-off Against Breast Cancer event, or if you are interested in giving a donation please contact the number below.

Erin Armstrong

(306)-676-9097

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Yorkton Terriers Coaches Show - Feb 5th edition

                              

                                     Joined this week by Terriers Head Coach/GM Mat Hehr

Saltcoats' Laycock captures another Saskatchewan Men's Tankard

                                        
                                                                (Photo from Curl Sask Twitter)

Saskatchewan will have a familiar face wearing the green and white when the 2018 Brier rolls around next month in Regina.

Saltcoats' product Steve Laycock and his Saskatoon rink of Matt Dunstone, Kirk Muyres & Dallan Muyres won their 4th Saskatchewan Men's Tankard title in 5 years after a 9-7 win over their former teammate Colton Flasch at Affinity Place in Estevan.

Laycock, who won his personal 7th Provincial Men's Title will now represent Team Saskatchewan at the 2018 Tim Horton's Brier that goes March 3rd to March 11th at the Brandt Center in Regina.

Saturday Night Local MJHL/SJHL Recap

The Melville Millionaires got back in the win column on Saturday night defeating the Battlefords North Stars 4-3.

Dayton Heino has the game winner late while Damian Bentz, Eric Soar and Logan Foster also chipped in with singles.

Brandon Wells made 37 saves in goal for the Mils win.

The Mils next action will be on Friday night when they visit the Yorkton Terriers on GX94.


Elsewhere,

The Yorkton Terriers got 2 goals from Quin Hobbs and Matt Jones but it wasn’t enough as they fell 8-5 to the Weyburn Red Wings on home ice.

Kyle Sargent had the other goal for the Terriers while Joe Marcouilier made 21 saves in the loss.

The Terriers next game will be on GX94 on Wednesday night when visit the Melfort Mustangs. Pregame show at 7:20, pxp at 7:30 with Yorkton Dodge Junior hockey.



Meanwhile in the MJHL,

Josh Tripp had 3 goals 2 assists while Captain Keaton Jameson had a goal and 3 assists to lead the Swan Valley Stampeders to a 8-1 win over the Neepawa Natives.

James Maxwell, Trevar Mann, Connor Navrot and Daylin Smallchild also scored for the Stampeders.

Ethan Peterson turned aside 34 shots for his 7th win of the season.

The Stamps next action will be on Friday when they begin a 3 game  in 3 night road trip visiting the Selkirk Steelers

Friday Night MJHL/SJHL Recap

In the MJHL on Friday,

20 year old Daylin Smallchild (pictured above) scored the game winner with a minute left to lead the Swan Valley Stampeders to a 3-2 win over the visiting Neepawa Natives.

Shane Roulette and James Maxwell also scored for the Stamps while Matt Christian and Brett Opperman replied for the Flyers.

Ethan Peterson made 41 saves for his 6th win of the season while Flyers G Aaron Brunn turned aside 50 shots in the loss.

The Stamps will now host the Neepawa Natives on Saturday night. The two teams are currently tied for the 8th and final playoff spot in the MJHL standings.


Other Friday MJHL scores:

Wayway Wolverines 1 @ Dauphin Kings 4
(Kyle Oleksiuk with 1G 2A to lead Kings)

Neepawa Natives 3 @ OCN Blizzard 1
(20 year old Ashton Anderson with the GWG for Neepawa)

Virden Oil Capitals 4 @ Winnipeg Blues 3
(Dalton Dosch with 22 saves in win)

Selkirk Steelers 2 @ Portage Terriers 6(Ryan Sokoloski and Turner Ripplinger with 3 points each)


=====================================================================In the SJHL on Friday night,

The Melville Millionaires dropped their 2nd straight road game, losing 3-1 to the Kindersley Klippers.

Keilan Olson (1G 1A), Tate Page (1G 1A) Blake Kleiner (2A) had 2 points each for the Klippers who got a single from Tanner Thompson.

Taylor Elmy had the lone goal for the Mils who got 40 saves in the loss from G Brandon Wells.

The Mils wrap up their weekend road trip on Saturday night visiting the Battlefords North Stars.

Meanwhile in Weyburn,

The Yorkton Terriers were blanked on the road, 6-0 by the Weyburn Red Wings.

Mike Eskra, Connor Pyne, Jessie Young, Jordan Kazmyra, Ben Hiltz and former Terrier Dexter Robinson all scored for the Wings who got a 16 save shutout from Arik Weersink.

Joe Marcouilier made 36 saves in the loss.

The two teams will meet in the back half of the home and home series on Saturday night at 7:30 from the Farrell Agencies Arena.




Other Friday SJHL scores:

Estevan Bruins 3 @ Battlefords North Stars 4 SO(
Layne Young 1G 1A and Cole Johnson 2A, with 2 points each)


Flin Flon Bombers 6 @ La Ronge Ice Wolves 1
(Bombers' F Nate Hooper with 2G 1A)


Humboldt Broncos 3 @ Notre Dame Hounds 5(Curtis Wiebe with 2G for Hounds)


Nipawin Hawks 2 @ Melfort Mustangs 3 SO
(Evan Plotnik made 24 saves in the win)

Swan Valley Stampeders Coaches Show - Feb 2nd edition (presented by Valley Bearing & Auto)

                                       
                   Joined this week by Swan Valley Stampeders Asst. Coach Darren Webster

Wednesday's SJHL/MJHL Recap

The Swan Valley Stampeders pulled into tie for the 8th and final playoff spot in the MJHL standings after 3-1 victory last night (Wed) over the Neepawa Natives in Dauphin.

The game was played at Credit Union Place in Dauphin due to the water situation in Swan River.

Shane Roulette (pictured above) led the way offensively for the Stamps with 2 third period goals while Quinton Sudom had the other.

Ethan Peterson made 22 saves to get the victory in the Stamps crease.

Stamps and Neepawa now both sit with matching 43 points but Swan has 3 games in hand.

Swan Valley's next game is slated to be on Friday night when they host the Winkler Flyers.


Other Wednesday results:

Virden Oil Capitals 4 @ Wayway Wolverines 1
(Kirklan Lycar & Russell MB's Landyn Cochrane both with 3 points each for Virden)

Steinbach Pistons 8 @ Portage Terriers 2
(MJHL leading scorer Bradley Schoonbaert with 4 assists to lead Pistons)

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In the SJHL,

The Melville Millionaires' 2 game win streak was snapped after they dropped a 3-1 decision on Wednesday in Melfort against the Mustangs.

Tyler Millar got the Mils on the board first but then the Mustangs scored 3 unanswered goals by Colin Schmidt, Loch Morrison and Rock Ruschkowski to lead them to their 30th victory of the season.

Mustangs G Hunter Arps stopped 25 shots to get the victory while Mils netminder Colby Entz turned aside 30 shots in the losing cause.

The Mils will continue their 4 game road trip this weekend with a road-trip through Kindersley (Friday) and the Battlefords on Saturday.


Other game in the SJHL on Wednesday,

Estevan Bruins 3  @ Kindersley Klippers 2 SO
( Michael McChesney had a goal in regulation & the shootout winner to lead the Bruins)