Honkings from the Wild Goose; Week 12

Honkings from the Wild Goose 

Sask West Hockey League Standings: The Wilkie Outlaws have first place locked up at 14-1, followed by the Kindersley Klippers at 10-5 and the Edam 3 Stars at 9-4-1. The Macklin Mohawks sit in fourth at 7-7-1, followed in fifth is the Biggar Nationals at 3-11 and bringing up the rear are the Asquith Admirals at 1-12-2. 

Playoffs note: The battle for second was red hot and remains to be seen who exactly gets it. 

Cross Roads Hockey League Standings: The Rosetown Redwings and the Unity Miners sit tied first at 9-3. In third is the Dodsland Stars at 8-4, followed by the Kerrobert Tigers at 6-6. The Kindersley Kodiaks (4-8) and the Luseland Mallards (0-12) round things out. 

Playoff Matchups: Rosetown and Unity get first round byes, while Dodsland/Luseland and Kerrobert/Kindersley play in a modified best of 3 first round. 

Sask West 

On Wednesday night, the Kindersley Klippers headed north for a marquee matchup against the Wilkie Outlaws. Wilkie deflated the tires early in a 9-2 win. 

Blake Young opened the scoring at the 15:11 mark of the first, followed by goals from Rory Gregoire and Cody Roy before the 10-minute mark. Damon McKenzie cut the deficit to 3-1 after 20 minutes. Barrett Nielsen was the lone scorer in the second, extending the Outlaws lead to 4-1. Wilkie continued the onslaught in the final frame, with Owen Lamb and Troy Gerein scoring before Jaxon Georget cut into the lead again. It wasn't near enough as Ryne Keller, Lamb and Nielsen all scored in the final 7 minutes to secure the win. 

Carter Woodside (Emergency stand in) stopped 42 of 51 shots in the loss, while Jared Herle stopped 20 of 22 shots in the win. 

On Friday night, the Edam 3 Stars took the long trek to Asquith to play against the Admirals and absolutely dismantled them in a 17-2 win. 

3 Stars goals were scored by Jordan Fransoo (3), Jaxon Penner, Josh Longstaff (2), Zach Nedelec, Brayden Buziak, Owen LaClare (2), Keegan Tiringer (4)m and Logan Nachtegaele (3). Stephan Jackson and Austin Wieler replied in the third for the home team. 

Taryn Kotchorek stopped 13 of 15 shots in the win, while Even Vanderveer stopped 41 of 58 shots in the loss. 

Also on Friday, the Wilkie Outlaws and Macklin Mohawks convened at the Credit Union Legacy Centre. The crowd saw Wilkie win 9-3. 

Blake Young for the Outlaws and Foster Steinhubel for the Mohawks traded goals before Kaleb Cey and Rick Cey gave Wilkie the 3-1 lead after 20 minutes. Ryne Keller would extend the lead in the second, but Tyler Robertson cut the lead to 4-2. Cody Roy, Rory Gregoire and Derek Keller all piled on goals for a big 7-2 lead after two periods. Gregoire continued the Outlaws barrage in the third. Robertson would score again late, but Rick Cey finished off the scoring with less than two minutes left for the convincing win. 

Joel Gryzbowski took the win, stopped 15 of 17 shots in two periods of play. Curtis Sander saw one period of action, stopped 4 of 5 shots. Trevor Martin stopped 32 of 41 shots in the loss. 

On Saturday night, the Mohawks headed south to the WCEC for a matchup against the Kindersley Klippers. The home team won handedly 11-1. 

Klippers goals were scored by Kyle Donaldson (4), Trey Tuffs, Carson Grolla (2), Shayne Neigum (2) and Jaxon Georget (2). Tyler Robertson broke up the shutout big with just 2:35 left in the game.  

Owen Bosch stopped 41 of 52 shots in the loss, while Logan Drackett stopped 20 of 21 shots in the win. 

Also on Saturday, the Wilkie Outlaws braved the cold and headed east to Asquith to play in the Admiral Freezerdome. Wilkie blew them out 17-0. 

Goals were scored by Levi Sherman (2), Rick Cey (4), Kaleb Cey (3), Brett Schell (3), Blake Young (3), and Ryne Keller (2). 

Curtis Sander stopped all 17 shots in the win, while Evan Vanderveer stopped 47 of 64 shots in the loss. 

On Sunday, the Klippers took the hike north to play the Edam 3 Stars. Edam secured a big 3-0 win. 

The scoring finally started thanks to Jordan Fransoo, who scored on the power play at the 14:22 mark of the second. Keegan Tiringer added to the lead at 11:20 of the third period, and Tiringer secured the win with a shorthanded/empty net goal at the 1:25 mark of the third. 

There is a Wednesday game between the 3 Stars and the Biggar Nationals. This was forced to be rescheduled from its original date due to lack of officials.  The results will be on the SWHL website. 

Cross Roads 

On Friday night, the Luseland Mallards hosted the Kerrobert Tigers. The visitors left with a 9-4 win. 

Quenton Murphy opened the scoring, but Kyle Heintz tied it with a shorthanded marker. Murphy would regain the Tigers lead just 30 seconds later. In the second period, Cole Kissick added to the lead, but Justin Wells would cut it down to 3-2. The back and forth would continue as Taylor Neumeier (SHG) and Heintz (PPG) traded goals for a 4-3 Tigers lead after 40 minutes. Kerrobert would take over in the third, with goals from Riley Anderson and Drake McKinnon to start. Cole Pangman would try and keep it close with this 2nd of the year, but Matthew Roblin, Emery Cholin and Kissick would all score to secure the win. 

Tyson Borschneck stopped 17 of 21 shots in the win, while Avery Kohlman (in two periods of action) stopped 49 of 57 shots in the loss. Sam Walz stopped 7 of 8 shots in one period. 

On Saturday, the Tigers hosted the Rosetown Redwings and won by a score of 4-1.  

Drake McKinnon and Rylan Borschneck each scored goals in the first for a 2-0 Tigers lead. Borshneck and Jordan Johnston traded goals in the second. Matthew Roblin scored with 9:02 left in the third to round out scoring. 

Noah Martens stopped 30 of 34 shots in the loss, while Preston Plamondon stopped 38 of 39 shots in the win. 

History Lesson 

In a previous week, I mentioned about the Wild Goose All Stars playing other countries in exhibition play. Today we’ll be looking at the 1965 battle at Kindersley’s exhibition stadium between the All Stars and the West German squad. Not much is known about this international team (other than it's the national men's team), but this appears to be stop 12 of the 12 game Canadian tour. The game ended in a 5-5 tie in front of 3,000 fans. All Star goals were scored by Bob Marik of Biggar (2), Jim Raisbeck & Orest Palahicki of Wilkie, and Keith Robson of Kindersley. German goal scorers were Rudolf Groger (2), Bernd Kuhn, Heinz Weisenbach and Siefrid Schubert. All Star goaltending was shared by Chuck Newmeyer and Don Cowan. Note: The Wild Goose this year has teams from Wilkie, Kindersley, Biggar, Unity, Leader and Swift Current.