Pairings set in SNJMHL semifinals

March 31, 2016 · 0 Comments

The Ken Lawn Mower Repair Blades needed some help if they were going to make it to the semifinals in the Sunday Night Junior Men’s Hockey League, and they go it.
They also helped themselves with an impressive win in the last evening in the round-robin play.
The Blades ended up taking squeezing into the final beth in the next round, knocking out the We Are Creative Warriors.
March 20
Moose 5, Predators 1
The Mr. Handyman Moose came out firing on all cylinders this night to take 4.5 points from the Inside Out Family Chiropractic Predators (in round-robin, one point is awarded for winning a period, two points for winning the game and if a period is tied, each team gets half a point).
Moose magic happened from the sticks of Shane Marshall from Graham Bryson, Bryson from Cam Coulter, Bryson from Coulter, Brian Dunn from Brad Sztorc and Brett Weight, and Steve Brown (unassisted). The Predators’ lone marksman was Tim Vokey from Mark Metcalfe.
Fire 2, Wild 2
In a nail biter, neither team could best the other.
However, with the five point system, the Ainsley Fire Protection Fire were able to take three points from the Pommies Cider Co. Wild. Point getters for the Fire were Eamon Harper from Shane Ainsley, and Robert Silvestri from Ainsley and Dave DiMeo. Wild go-to guys were Alex White (unassisted) and Jay Beech from Mike Hamilton.
Wings 1, Warriors 0
Craig Piotto was able to hold the Warriors off the board and furnish four points for the St. Louis Bar and Grill Red Wings.
Daniel Hamlett from Brad Wigner were the Wings heroes.
Blades 7, Penguins 2
The Blades pulled off a miracle by taking all five points from the George’s Arena Sports Penguins and squeezing into the semifinals.
Blade bin bulgers were Clark Chung (unassisted), Daryll Simpson from Jason Clark, Darren Levy from Chung and David Payne, Kevin Wigner from Darren Jones, Levy from Mark Bauldry, Silvio Muraca (unassisted), and Clark from Simpson. Penguins pluggers were Matt Dowdle from Dave Matheson, and Dale McLean from Alex Schittenhelm.
The semifinals are set for April 3.
The final standings after round-robin saw the Moose on top with 29.5 points, followed by the Predators with 23.5, Wings with 22, Blades with 18, Warriors with 17, Fire with 14, Wild with 10.5 and Penguins with five.