October 31st MJHL/SJHL Local Recap

 MJHL

20 year old Mack Belinski had 2 goals 1 assist including the game winner on the powerplay with 45 seconds left on the clock to lead the Waywayseecappo Wolverines to a 5-4 victory over the Swan Valley Stampeders to sweep their home and home series.

Reagan Rabbit, Tyson Zimmer and Gerik Ripley scored for the Wolverines while Randy Cooke made 24 saves for the win in his Wolverines' debut. 

Callum Fortin and Carter Cockburn netted a 1 goal and 1 assist each to lead the Stampeders' while Noah Fladager and Cody Barnes also scored. 

Mikael Foucher made 31 saves on 36 shots for the Stamps' in the loss.

Other Saturday games in the MJHL:

Portage 3 Neepawa 1

Winkler 2 Virden 3

Steinbach 5 Selkirk 2

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SJHL Preseason

The Yorkton Hyundai Terriers completed the preseason sweep of their Highway 10 rivals, the Melville Millionaires by defeating them on Saturday night, 6-0 at the Westland Insurance Arena. 

Jackson Berezowski led the way offensively for the Terriers with a goal and 2 assists while Carson Miller, Vaughn Watterodt, Kishaun Gervais, Vaughn Watterodt and Keenan Taphorn chipped in with singles.

Jacob Herman stopped all 30 shots in the Terrier net to record the shutout while the Mils split their goaltending duties once again as Kaleb McEachern made 19 saves on 23 shots while Alexis Giroux stopped 23 of 25 shots. 

The Terriers will open up their 2020/21 regular season on Friday night when they host the Humboldt Broncos at 7:30PM from the Westland Insurance Arena. 

Meanwhile, the Mils home opener will also be on Friday at 7:30 when they entertain the Estevan Bruins from the Horizon Credit Union Center.

Other Saturday preseason results:

La Ronge 2 Flin Flon 6

Weyburn 4 Estevan 6

Melfort 3 Nipawin 2

Notre Dame 6 Humboldt 5 (OT)

Belinski's 4 point night leads Waywayseecappo to a victory in Swan River

The Waywayseecappo Wolverines improved their record to 4-3-0 on the season on Friday after a 5-2 victory over the Swan Valley Stampeders at the Centennial Arena in Swan River. 

The Wolverines got the only marker of the 1st period as just 2:24 in, after a nice individual effort to find himself in alone Rayman Bassi was able to slide it five-hole on Stamps' G Dylan Black for his 2nd of the season to give the visitors a 1-0 lead after 1 period with Wayway leading the shot column 13-7. 

In the 2nd, Wayway would add to their lead as Mack Belinski worked his way into the Stamps' zone and then hit the trailer which was Chad Nychuk, who was playing in his 1st game with the Wolverines this season after being loaned back from the WHL's Brandon Wheat Kings, sniped it home to make it 2-0 just 6:49 into the middle frame.

The Stamps' drew even just over 8 minutes later when newcomer Brad Fortin finished off a nifty feed from Cody Barnes for his 1st as a Stampeder to make it 2-1.

But the Wolverines regained their two goal lead on a short-handed goal by Mack Belinski, his 4th of the season to give the road squad a 3-1 advantage through 40 minutes. 

Swan Valley cut their deficit within one once again early in the 3rd period when Brad Fortin added his 2nd of the night making it 3-2 but just over a minute later Mack Belinski added his 2nd of the night to regain the Wolverines' their two goal lead.

Rayman Bassi add his second of the night into the empty net late to seal the victory.

Wayway G Liam Tereposky improved to 3-1 on the season after making 21 saves in goal while Stamps' netminder Dylan Black turned aside 39 of 43 shots. 

The two teams will meet once again on Saturday night in Waywayseecappo at 7PM MB time and just a reminder that the game will be closed for spectators.

Elsewhere in the MJHL,

Steinbach 6 Selkirk 1 

Virden 5 Winkler 3 

Neepawa 1 Portage 6

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SJHL Preseason

Brett Kemp had 4 goals and 2 assists while Kishaun Gervais added three points (2G 1A) to lead the Yorkton Hyundai Terriers to a 6-3 win over the Melville Millionaires on Friday night.

Jayden Dureau, Campbell McLean and Christian Adlys replied for the Mils in the loss.

The two teams wrap up their preseason on Saturday at the Westland Insurance Arena in Yorkton at 7:30PM. (The game is sold-out)

Other Friday results:

Nipawin 5 Melfort 1

Estevan 2 Weyburn 5

Yorkton's Korczak named to Hockey Canada's Junior Selection Camp Roster

 

Hockey Canada announced on Thursday morning, the 46 hopefuls that will participate in the Canadian Junior Selection Camp that will begin November 16th in a co-hort bubble in Red Deer, Alberta.

Among the participants announced include Yorkton's Kaedan Korczak. 

Korczak had his 3rd season with the WHL's Kelowna Rockets cut short this past spring due to the pandemic, but in 60 games this past season he had 11 goals 38 assists for 49 points. 

The players will participate in the month-long selection camp ahead of the 2021 World Junior Hockey Championships that will be held in a bubble-type format from Christmas Day until January 5th, 2021 in Edmonton, Alberta.

Prince Albert's Braden Schneider of the Brandon Wheat Kings and Saskatoon products Connor Zary (Kamloops Blazers) & Adam Beckman (Spokane Chiefs) were other Saskatchewan players selected while Manitoba players selected included Moose Jaw Warriors defenceman and Brandon, MB product Daemon Hunt and Winnipeg's Seth Jarvis of the Portland Winterhawks.

You can find the full list of the players named by clicking HERE


Audio with Korczak below:

bennywalchuk2 · Korczak Team Canada (Oct 29th)

Millionaires and Terriers slated to kick off 2020/21 SJHL Regular Season on Friday. Nov 6th

The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League has announced that their 2020/21 regular season will tentatively start on Fri, Nov. 6th. 

The league is still hoping to get approval to allow for more than 150 fans to attend when the regular season does arrive or the start of the season may have to be delayed. 

The Melville Millionaires and Yorkton Hyundai Terriers will both open their regular seasons on home ice on opening night with the Mils hosting Estevan and the Terriers welcoming Humboldt. 

The 12 member clubs will each play a 50 game modified schedule with Melville and Yorkton playing the first half of their season until the middle of January against each other along with the Estevan Bruins, Weyburn Red Wings, Humboldt Broncos and Notre Dame Hounds. 

The Mils and Terriers will play each other 10 times while playing Estevan & Weyburn 6 times, and Notre Dame & Humboldt 4 times each respectively while playing the remaining 6 other teams in a home & home series in the New Year. 

The Battlefords, Kindersley, Melfort, Nipawin, Flin Flon and La Ronge will make up the other group of 6. 

CLICK HERE for full Millionaires schedule

CLICK HERE for full Terriers' schedule

Waywayseecappo Wolverines Coaches Show - Oct. 27th edition

 

bennywalchuk2 · Wolverines Coaches Show - Oct 27th

Yorkton Terriers Coaches Show - Oct 26th edition

 

bennywalchuk2 · Terriers Coaches Show - Oct 26th

October 24th SJHL/MJHL Recap

STAMPEDERS 5, WOLVERINES 3

The Swan Valley Stampeders got back in the win column as they defeated the Waywayseecappo Wolverines 5-3 on Saturday night. 

Hayden Delorme (2G 1A) and Quinn Mulder (3A) led the way with 3 points each for the Stamps' while Tyler Park and Carter Cockburn had 1G 1A. 

Noah Fladager had the other marker while Mikael Foucher turned aside 53 shots to get his 4th victory of the season.

Conrad Phillips had two more goals to lead the Wolverines while Leyton Smith had the other.

Brendan Forman made 28 saves in the losing cause.

The two teams will have another home and home series next weekend starting Friday in Swan River. GX94 will broadcast the game starting with the play by play at 7PM MB time from the Centennial Arena.


Elsewhere in the MJHL on Saturday,

Selkirk Steelers 2, Steinbach 1 

Virden Oil Capitals 5, Winkler Flyers 2

Neepawa 4, Portage Terriers 2

Winnipeg Freeze 1, Winnipeg Blues 5

OCN Blizzard 3, Dauphin Kings 6

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TERRIERS 3, MILLIONAIRES 1 (PRESEASON)

The Yorkton Hyundai Terriers earned a 3-1 victory on home ice against the Melville Millionaires as the two teams continued their SJHL preseason.

Kaeden Taphorn, Ethan Robson and Steven Norum scored for the Terriers while Mils goal came from forward Kolton Leslie.

Phillipe Bond got the start for the Terriers and made 24 saves in the win while Vaughn Holbeche and Kaleb McEachern spit the goal-tending duties for the Millionaires.

The two teams will do it all again next weekend for a home and home series starting on Friday night in Melville.

Other Saturday SJHL preseason results:

Notre Dame Hounds 1, Humboldt Broncos 5

Nipawin Hawks 1, Melfort Mustangs 2

Weyburn Red Wings 0, Estevan Bruins 3

Kindersley Klippers 4, Battlefords North Stars 1

Flin Flon Bombers 2, La Ronge Ice Wolves 4