Friday, March 18, 2011

TERRIERS IMPRESS IN GAME ONE

The Yorkton Terriers blew out the Kindersley Klippers 7-2 in game one of the SJHL Sherwood Conference finals.

I have to say that I am not right very often, so when I am, I really like to blow my horn.  Brenden Poncelet was one of the best players on the ice tonight, along with linemates Riley Paterson and Nathan Murray.  Poncelet, in my opinion, is a guy who is going to play his best hockey come playoff time and he's showing that right now despite not having an abundance of points.  He's a real force out there.

Devin Peters is, officially, back.  He was excellent tonight and is 2-0, 1.50, .958 in two games during the playoffs.  He's providing championship calibre goaltending on a team that doesn't really need it right now as they are on a five game playoff win streak.

The January 10th acquisitions of Justin Buzzeo and Jeremy Boyer got a ton of press right across the junior hockey world in Saskatchewan; but the most valuable trade was the one that landed Brant Remenda from Nipawin.  He's been at an all-star level since his very first game here.

Yorkton hosts game two tomorrow (Saturday) night and can really take a firm grasp on the series with another win.

Kindersley hasn't had to face much adversity since the middle of December and I'm curious to see how they respond.  I liked their second period tonight after falling behind 2-0 in period one, but Remenda got a weak one late in the middle frame to make it 3-1 and then just a few moments later it was Clarke Breitkreuz and Robbie Ciolfi teaming up on an odd man rush to make it 4-1 after two and the rout was on.

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