Highway Hockey League

The Wynyard Monarchs visit the Southey Marlins on Monday at 8:15 in game four of the best of five semi-final. They need a win to force a game five in Wynyard on Wednesday evening. The Monarchs also play host to Rosetown in game two of their Provincial 'B' semi-final on Friday evening. if a third game is required it will be played in Rosetown on Saturday evening.

The Raymore Rockets have advanced to the League final after game three was forfeited due to a lack of players available to the Semans Wheat Kings. We apologize to our fans for this happening but it was decided mutually that this would be the course of action. The league has had a few instances this year with some teams where games have been cancelled or moved due to availability of players. The league made changes to our schedule in Playoff structure this year for various reasons and this was one small part of that change. This is going to be discussed at our spring meeting and All Star windup. The Rockets had won the first two games of this series.

All of our games being played in playoffs and Provincials are listed on this page. Please click on the “2011 HHL Playoff” page located under the “HHL Headlines” for playoff results. For HHL Provincial results please click on "2011 SHA Provincials" page located under the "HHL Headlines" column. There was delay this week in updating our site but the option is to click on http://twitter.com/GeraldT and all scores will be reported there.

Fortunes changed this past weekend for our teams in Provincials. Three of our teams were eliminated in overtime. On Sunday evening, the Lumsden Monarchs played the Bredenbury Cougars. They went into the game with a 3-2 lead and early in the third period scored twice to take a 4-1 lead in game two only to see Bredenbury bounce back with four straight goals to put this series into overtime. The first overtime produced no scoring but 13:42 into the second overtime period Bredenbury scored on the power play and won the Provincial ‘C’ series 8-7. In Drake, the Southey Marlins were holding on to a 2-1 lead late in the third period in game three of their best of three Provincial ‘A’ series against the Drake Canucks. Drake pulled their goalie and tied the game and then won the series in overtime. On Monday evening the Raymore Rockets held a 3-2 lead in the third period in their third game of Provincial ‘A’ play. Bruno tied this game late with their goalie pulled and then won in overtime 4-3. The Bethune Bulldogs lost 7-3 to Rosetown on Saturday evening in Provincial ‘B’ action and now Rosetown will play the Wynyard Monarchs who defeated Unity 7-2 on Saturday evening. This best of 3 semi-final begins in Rosetown on Sunday at 1:45 in Rosetown.

Highway Hockey League semi-finals are now set. Last Monday evening the Southey Marlins completed a 3-0 sweep in a hard fought series with a 7-2 victory over the Cupar Canucks in game three of their series. On Wednesday evening the Raymore Rockets ended the Bethune Bulldogs season with a 4-2 victory and a 3-0 series sweep. On Friday evening the Wynyard Monarchs defeated the Lumsden Monarchs 8-6 to win their series 3-1. On Saturday evening the Semans Wheat Kings came back from a 3-0 deficit and defeated the Avonlea Arrows 4-3 to sweep the series 3-0. All three games of this series were decided by one goal and the first two games went to overtime.

The first games of the semi-finals have been set. On Friday evening the Southey Marlins visit the Wynyard Monarchs in game one of their best of five series at 8:15. Game two of this series will be played in Southey on the following Tuesday at 8:15. The Raymore Rockets will start in Semans on Friday evening in game one of their best of five series at 8 p.m. On Saturday evening game two of the Raymore/Semans series will be played in Raymore at 8 p.m.

All of our games being played in playoffs and Provincials are listed on this page. Please click on the “2011 HHL Playoff” page located under the “HHL Headlines” for playoff results. For HHL Provincial results please click on "2011 SHA Provincials" page located under the "HHL Headlines" column.

As long as I am getting the reports, your computer or handheld will give you the quickest results for HHL Provincials and HHL games and your opportunity to say anything…just click on Twitter at http://twitter.com/GeraldT

Thank you for supporting the Highway Hockey League and we hope you are able to get out to a game near you.

Highway Hockey playoffs are underway. The Raymore Rockets opened in Bethune last Wednesday with a 5-0 victory over the Bulldogs. They followed that up with a 13-2 victory in Raymore last Friday evening. Game three of this series will be Wednesday evening in Raymore. The Southey Marlins opened up their best of five series with the Cupar Canucks on Saturday evening with a 3-2 victory. They followed that up with a 4-3 victory in Cupar on Monday evening and now will attempt to sweep on Tuesday evening in Southey. The Wynyard Monarchs opened their playoffs in Wynyard on Friday evening with a 5-2 victory over the Lumsden Monarchs. Game two of this series is Tuesday in Lumsden and game three will be on Wednesday in Wynyard. The Avonlea Arrows visit the Semans Wheat Kings on Wednesday evening.

In Provincial play it was a good week for the HHL. On Thursday evening the Southey Marlins fought back with two goals in the third period to tie Drake and then won 6-5 in overtime. Game two of this Provincial 'A' series is in Southey on Thursday evening. The Wynyard Monarchs defeated Unity 9-3 on Saturday evening and will now play game two in Unity on Saturday evening in their two game total points Provincial 'B' series. The Raymore Rockets defeated Bruno 4-3 in double OT and will host game two of their Provincial 'A' best of three series on Saturday evening in Raymore. The Bethune Bulldogs travel to Rosetown on Saturday evening down 9-1 in their Provincial 'B' series. The Lumsden Monarchs defeated Bredenbury 3-2 in Provincial 'C' action and will host Bredenbury on Sunday at 6 p.m. in game 2 of their two game total points series.

As long as I am getting the reports, your computer or handheld will give you the quickest results for HHL Provincials and HHL games and your opportunity to say anything…just click on Twitter at http://twitter.com/GeraldT

Thank you for supporting the Highway Hockey League and we hope you are able to get out to a game near you.

The regular season is over. The final two makeup games were played in Cupar on Friday and Semans on Monday and although there was a shortage of players the games were completed. We do not expect rosters that short again this year and we apologize. We are organizing playoff series now and ask that you come back and check the playoff page as we get these games scheduled. We are attempting to complete round one by February 28th. We still have five teams in provincials and that comes into play with naturally when scheduling our playoffs. We do have everyone's first game scheduled. The first place Wynyard Rockets will open up against the eighth place Lumsden Monarchs on Friday evening in Wynyard at 8 p.m. They have game two scheduled in Lumsden on Tuesday, February 22nd at 8 p.m. The second place Raymore Rockets will open up in Bethune against the seventh place Bulldogs oon Wednesday at 8 p.m. They will play the second game of their series on Friday in Raymore at 8 p.m. The third place Semans Wheat Kings open up against the sixth place Avonlea Arrows on Thursday evening in Semans at 8 p.m. This series will resume during the week next week. The fourth place Southey Marlins open up against the Cupar Canucks on Saturday evening at 8 p.m. The series will continue during the next week.

In Provincials, we have five teams still playing. The Raymore Rockets defeated Tisdale and will now face Bruno. Their first game is this series is Sunday in Bruno at 5 p.m. The Southey Marlins defeated Watrous and now face Drake who defeated the Cupar Canucks in second round play. Their first game will be Thursday, February 17th in Drake at 8:30 p.m. The second game of this series is in Southey the following Thursday. The Wynyard Monarchs took care of Biggar and now meet Unity in Provincial 'B' action. Their first game of the two game total point is this Saturday in Wynyard at 8 p.m. The second game will be the following Saturday in Unity. The Bethune Bulldogs got beat 9-1 by Rosetown this past Saturday and will play the second game on February 26th. The Lumsden Monarchs defeated Gordons and now play Bredenbury. This series has not been finalized and we will have it on the Provincial page just as soon as we get it.

Barry Herman has the final season statistics completed and they will be posted this week. When they are up please peruse. One of the most interesting statistics of the year is the fact that home ice advantage was below 50% this year.....congratulations to Wheat King Jared Molnar on capturing the scoring title and leading the League in assists (34) and goals (33), the first Wheat King to capture the scoring title since Matt Sych did in 2008/09. Warren Niekamp from the Raymore Rockets led the league in GAA with a 3.41 average and quite an accomplishment considering league scoring is up almost two goals a game this year. Adam Jordan of the Wynyard Monarchs led the league in wins (13) and 2010 League MVP Justin Mrazek continues to be the Ironman with 1,087.5 minutes played. The Wynyard Monarchs led the League with the best power play. They had a 38.2% success rate which is a tremendous number. The Southey Marlins weren’t that far off with an equally impressive 35.1% success rate. All other teams except the Lumsden Monarchs were in the 20-30% success rate range this year. Is there any wonder why scoring was up? Power plays were certainly one reason. The top penalty kill unit belongs to the Avonlea Arrows at 81.2% Of course with the success of the power play units this year, penalty kill units' success were down in the 70-80% range, except the Strasbourg Maroons. The League also saw 35 shorthanded goals this year. Southey led the way with 6. The Home team record this year added up to 39-37-5 while visiting teams compiled a 42-34-5 record.

All HHL game sheets are available to be viewed on our “Schedules and Scores” page by clicking on the “2010-2011 HHL Boxscores” at the top of the page. Please click on the “2011 HHL Playoff” page located under the “HHL Headlines” for playoff results. For HHL Provincial results please click on "2011 SHA Provincials" page located under the "HHL Headlines" column.

Thank you for supporting the Highway Hockey League and we hope you are able to get out to a game near you.

Playoffs begin in the Highway Hockey League next week. With their 10-3 victory over Semans on Tuesday evening the Wynyard Monarchs will finish first place regardless of the outcome of the Raymore Rockets versus Semans Wheat Kings on Thursday evening. Semans has an opportunity to finish as high as third place and will finish no worse than sixth place.

Further to the League executive ruling on this incident, which was appealed, and then our League Commissioner’s final ruling on the use of a suspended player by the Raymore Rockets on December 11th against the Bethune Bulldogs, the SHA has determined that the Rockets will forfeit the two points they earned for that victory against Bethune. The Rockets will now finish second place as they can only tie Wynyard in the standings and the Monarchs won the season series between them. The Rockets will play the Bethune Bulldogs in the first round of playoffs. The Wynyard Monarchs will play the Monarchs from Lumsden in the first round of playoffs. The other two series will be determined this weekend. Due to Provincial series between Southey and Watrous and the series between Cupar and Drake the final two games of our regular season have not been finalized. Our intention is to have both the final regular season games, Avonlea @ Cupar and Southey @ Semans, completed by February 14th. We will post both of these games on our site as soon as Provincial game outcomes are posted.

Games confirmed at this time…in League the Semans Wheat Kings visit Raymore on Thursday. In Provincials the Cupar Canucks are in Drake to play the Canucks on Wednesday evening at 8:30 pm. These two teams go at it again on Thursday evening in Cupar at 8:30 pm and if a third game is required it will be played on Friday evening in Cupar at 8:30 pm. The Southey Monarchs defeated the Watrous Winterhawks on Monday evening 5-3 and will play game two of this series in Watrous on Friday at 8:30 pm. If a third game is required it will be played Sunday in Southey at 6 pm. The Lumsden Monarchs lost their first game of a two game total point series in Provincial ‘C’ against Gordons last Saturday. These two teams meet in Lumsden at 8 pm on Friday evening. The Wynyard Monarchs defeated Biggar last Saturday 9-2 and play the second game of their Provincial ‘B’ two game total point series in Biggar on Saturday at 8 pm. The Bethune Bulldogs begin Provincial ‘B’ play on Saturday evening in Bethune against Rosetown with the game beginning at 8 pm. The Raymore Rockets lost to Tisdale last Saturday evening 8-6 in Provincial ‘A’ action. Game two of this series is in Tisdale on Saturday evening at 8 pm. If a third game is required it will be played on Sunday at 6 pm in Raymore.

Final Statistics will be posted next week. A Playoff page with all four first round best of five series will be added to our site and All Star/Award nominations will be announced.

All HHL game sheets are available to be viewed on our “Schedules and Scores” page by clicking on the “2010-2011 HHL Boxscores” at the top of the page and we’ll update Provincial and League results on our news page early next week. Provincial results and upcoming games for HHL teams are posted on our site. Please click on "2011 SHA Provincials" on this page under the "HHL Headlines" column.

As long as I am getting the reports, your computer or handheld will give you the quickest results for HHL Provincials and HHL games and your opportunity to say anything…just click on Twitter at http://twitter.com/GeraldT

Thank you for supporting the Highway Hockey League and we hope you are able to get out to a game near you.

Our first round of Provincials concluded on Monday evening. The Raymore Rockets defeated the Leroy Braves 7-0 to advance to the second round against Tisdale and the Southey Marlins defeated the Nokomis Chiefs 4-3 to advance to the second round against the Watrous Winterhawks. The Winterhawks won the third game of their series against Avonlea on Friday evening 3-2. Games confirmed this weekend for members of our League include Provincial 'C' action with Lumsden @ Gordons on Saturday evening and in Provincial 'B' action Biggar is in Wynyard on Saturday evening. Provincial 'A' second round begins Saturday evening in Raymore where the Rockets host Tisdale in the first game of their best of three series. The Southey/Watrous series will be updated on our "2011 SHA Provincials" page (just click on the link under HHL Headlines on this page). Another Provincial 'A' series against the LMHL begins next weekend when Cupar and Drake start play in the second round of Provincial 'A'. Bethune begins play in Provincial 'B' against Rosetown next weekend.

In League play you will note these last few games have moved around. Please follow the schedule on this site for up to date dates for the remaining games. Wynyard and Semans was scheduled for Tuesday evening and has been moved to next week. On Wednesday evening the Cupar Canucks will be in Southey to play the Marlins. We have shown the four person refereeing system in most arenas this year but for the second time this year we will have two Referees and one linesman for this game. This system is used in Midget AAA and there is a better possibilty of this kind of system being used in future Senior play than the four person system. Also on Wednesday evening the Strasbourg Maroons play their last game of the season in Avonlea against the Arrows. On Friday evening the Avonlea Arrows will be in Semans and the Lumsden Monarchs play their last regular season game in Wynyard against their namesake. On Saturday evening Southey Marlins are in Avonlea and the Cupar Canucks are in Bethune. The following week there are four make up games that will be played.

All HHL game sheets are available to be viewed on our “Schedules and Scores” page by clicking on the “2010-2011 HHL Boxscores” at the top of the page and we’ll update Provincial and League results on our news page early next week. Provincial results and upcoming games for HHL teams are posted on our site. Please click on "2011 SHA Provincials" on this page under the "HHL Headlines" column.

As long as I am getting the reports, your computer or handheld will give you the quickest results for HHL Provincials and HHL games. Just click on Twitter at http://twitter.com/GeraldT

To those of you that send us comments, suggestions....and corrections thank you! Sometimes our real jobs get in the way but we all care about hockey in Saskatchewan so please feel free to contact anyone listed under our executive at any time....Thank you for supporting the Highway Hockey League and please get out to a game near you.

In League play we had four games on Friday evening. In Strasbourg, the Maroons picked up their third win of the year with a 6-5 victory over the Bethune Bulldogs. Brady Heintz and Derek Back each scored one goal while Darryl Knaus and Evan Meyers each scored a pair of goals to lead the charge for the Maroons. Replying for the Bulldogs were Dustin MacAngus and David Clive each with a pair of goals and a goal from Jeremy Forbes. This game was the fifth loss in a row for Bethune and the second defeat of the year to Strasbourg. In Avonlea, The Lumsden Monarchs had their highest scoring total of the year with a 9-2 victory over the Arrows in Avonlea. With that victory the Monarchs won the season series over the Arrows 2-1 and have won 3 of their last 4 games. Tyson Getzinger led the way for the Monarchs with four goals. Rookie Steve Eberts scored once while balance of the scoring came from junior players Brady Aulie with two goals and goals from Austen Preete, Steve Eberts and Nolan Sandvold. Chris Prohar and Gavin Mievre replied for the Arrows who are looking for their first victory of 2011. In Wynyard, the second place Monarchs defeated the third place Southey Marlins 8-6. Kelsey Leffler and Mike Anderson both scored twice for the Monarchs. Mike Kesserling, Ryan Richards also scored for the Marlins.The Marlins have also lost five games in a row and have not won in 2011. The Wynyard Monarchs have won three in a row since losing to the Rockets in their first regulation loss of the season. In Cupar, the Semans Wheat Kings won their second game of the year over the Cupar Canucks 13-8 and moved into third place. Jared Molnar led the way with four goals for Semans. Joey MacDonald, Darren Lynch, Matt Sych and Kellen Sillinger each scored two goals and Denny Joyal scored once for the Wheat Kings. The Canucks were led by Donovan Chow with five goals to his credit. Also scoring for the Canucks were Tyson Sievert, Cory Haines and Justin Schulhauser.

As mentioned last week there have been changes to our schedule as a result of Provincials and we apologize. The games listed on our site and front page are correct and all games at the bottom of the schedule are being rescheduled. The regular season ends February 10th. Our first round of playoffs will consist of eight teams and all series this year are best of five in each round. On Friday evening the Lumsden Monarchs will be in Cupar and Bethune Bulldogs will be in Southey while in Provincial 'A' playoffs, Raymore will be in Leroy and Watrous will be in Avonlea. On Saturday evening Avonlea will be in Bethune, Semans is in Strasbourg and Cupar visits Wynyard. Leroy will be in Raymore for game two of their Provincial series.

In team stats the Avonlea Arrows are the least penalized team in the league with an average of 11.77 minutes per game. They are followed by Cupar at 13 minutes per game and then Wynyard at 14.71 minutes per game. The most penalized teams in the league are the Southey Marlins and Bethune Bulldogs with an average of 24 minutes per game.The Wynyard Monarchs have the best power play in the league and average an astounding 44.4 success rate. Kevin Falloon from the Monarchs leads the League with 9 power play goals. Just as impressive are the Southey Marlins at 34.5% and the Avonlea Arrows at 28.3% and Strasbourg Maroons at 28.2%. The top penalty killers are the team with the fewest penalties, the Avonlea Arrows at 81.5% success rate, They are followed by the busiest penalty killers in the league, the Southey Marlins at 81.1% and Bethune Bulldogs at 76.5%. Another astounding statistic this year are the 27 short handed goals that have been scored.

We have four games this weekend and they are all on Friday evening. The 7th place Avonlea Arrows (5-5-1) get back into action and host the 8th place Lumsden Monarchs (5-10-0), the 4th place Semans Wheat Kings (6-5-1) are in Cupar to play the 6th place Canucks (5-4-2), the Bethune Bulldogs (6-7-1) are in Strasbourg to play the Maroons (2-13-0) and the 3rd place Southey Marlins (6-5-2) are in Wynyard to play the 2nd place Monarchs (11-1-1).

We apologize for the cancellation of the two games on Saturday evening. The League made an attempt this year to keep as much room open for Senior ‘A’ Provincials (these are best of 3 series) for the four teams we have in that classification and we lowered our regular season games to 18 however there were still problems fitting the games in. If you go to our schedule you will note that two games are on the bottom of the schedule and those games will be rescheduled this week.

Provincials start this weekend. Our Provincial schedule for the HHL teams is available by clicking on the “2011 SHA Provincials” button on the right side of this page under “HHL Headlines”. This weekend in ‘A’ the Avonlea Arrows play at home on Saturday evening and are in Watrous on Sunday. The Southey Marlins will be in Nokomis on Sunday for a 5 p.m. game and will host Nokomis on Wednesday. The Raymore Rockets have no games in League this weekend and start Provincials in Leroy next Friday and host Leroy on Saturday. The Cupar Canucks are also in ‘A’ but do not play until the second round and will be playing Drake in February.

In Provincial ‘B’, the Wynyard Monarchs play host to Biggar on February 5th and play in Biggar on February 12th. The Bethune Bulldogs are also in ‘B’ and don’t play until the second round against Rosetown. The first game is in Bethune on February 12th and back in Rosetown on February 26th. The Lumsden Monarchs are in Provincial ‘C’ and will play Gordon’s Golden in early February. We will post results as soon as we receive them. As long as everyone reports, the quickest results for HHL Provincials and HHL games are available on Twitter at http://twitter.com/GeraldT

HHL Statistics are up to date, all HHL game sheets are available to be viewed on our “Schedules and Scores” page by clicking on the “2010-2011 HHL Boxscores” at the top of the page and we’ll update Provincial and League results on our news page on Monday.

Action in the HHL continues this weekend with a full slate of games on both Friday and Saturday.

On Friday evening the 6th place Semans Wheat Kings (5-5-0) are in Lumsden to play the 8th place Monarchs (3-9-0). The 4th place Bethune Bulldogs (6-5-1) are in Raymore to play the 1st place Rockets (12-1-1) and the 2nd place Wynyard Monarchs (9-1-1) are in Southey to play the 3rd place Marlins (6-3-2).

On Saturday evening the third game of the season series between Lumsden and Bethune takes place in Bethune. Cupar hosts the Raymore Rockets, Southey visits Semans and Wynyard is in Strasbourg.

There is no question scoring is up and GAA's are up this year....there are probably plenty of reasons but just look at special teams percentages this year as one of the reasons. The Wynyard Monarchs lead the league in power play with a 47.5% conversion rate. Kevin Falloon has 8 power play goals and Theran Yeo has 7 for the Monarchs. Also very high are the Southey Marlins at 39.7%. Derek Halldorson has scored 7 goals this year and 5 of them are PP goals. The Strasbourg Maroons have an excellent power play and they are next at 30.9 %. The Lumsden Monarchs have the lowest conversion rate and they are at 15.9%. On the penalty kill the Southey Marlins lead all teams at 83.6%, followed by Avonlea at 82.4% and Bethune at 78.1%. Strasbourg PK is at only 55.4%. There have been 22 short handed goals scored this year. Every team has scored a short handed goal and every team has given up one except the Semans Wheat Kings. The Southey Marlins lead all teams with 5 short handed goals and the Lumsden Monarchs have given up the most at 8 goals.

Derek Back of the Strasbourg Maroons continues to lead the scoring race with 20 goals and 16 assists in 10 games played for 36 total points. Jared Molnar of the Wheat Kings is next with 15 goals and 15 assists for 30 points in 9 games played. Veteran Ryan Peterson of the Wynyard Monarchs continues his outstanding year with 11 goals and 18 assists for 29 points in 11 games. Also from the Monarchs, Theran Yeo and and Kevin Falloon are tied for 5th place with 27 points each, In 4th place, Jaret Eberle of the Southey Marlins has 15 goals and 13 assists for 28 points. Raymore Rocket Warren Niekamp continues to lead all goalies with a 3.49 GAA and 10 wins. Adam Jordan from Wynyard is next at 4.30 GAA and 9 wins and Semans Wheat King Scott Munroe has a 4.38 GAA. Justin Mrazek is fourth with a 4.80 GAA and leads all goalies with 662.5 minutes played.

Remember that all game sheets are available on the "schedule/scores" page by clicking on the 2010-11 "Box scores" at the top of the page. I continue to try and keep you up to date with scores on Twitter and you can follow me at GeraldT. Please email me at any time if you have any questions or comments regarding the Highway Hockey League.

Provincial schedules will be posted next week. Please try and get out to a game near you this weekend.

Welcome to the new year. With the start of the year that means rosters are almost complete for the year and Provincials are close. We have two games on Tuesday evening to start the year. The Cupar Canucks have been off for two weeks and are in Lumsden on Tuesday evening to meet the Monarchs. Also on Tuesday the Avonlea Arrows are in Raymore to meet the Rockets. We have two games on Friday evening as the Southey Marlins, winners of their last three games, will be in Raymore and the Strasbourg Maroons will be in Wynyard to play the Monarchs who are 8-0-1 in the first half of their season. On Saturday evening there are three games. Strasbourg will be in Bethune to play the Bulldogs, Cupar is down highway 22 to play the Southey Marlins and Raymore will be in Wynyard for the third and final meeting of the year between our top two teams. This game will start at 7 p.m. and not 8 p.m. as previously advertised.

Last Tuesday the Bethune Bulldogs were in Lumsden and led by a four point night from Adam MacAngus, three points from Lanny Flichel, two point nights from David Clive and Kyle Ulmer and a pair of goals from Derek Fuchs the Bulldogs, they left with a 9-2 victory. Ryan Seibel picked up the win in net for the Bulldogs. On Wednesday night the Southey Marlins defeated the Strasbourg Maroons 18-7...and I have not seen a score with that many goals in awhile. Jaret Eberle had 7 goals and 2 assists, Kyle Ermel had 3 goals and 4 assists, Elliot Hubick had 2 goals and Brendan Jasper had two goals to lead the Marlins. Strasbourg got two goals each from Brady Heintz and Eric Schultz. Mitch Robinson picked up the win in net for the Marlins. Derek Halldorson did play this game and had a goal and 4 assists. If you haven't seen the article that the Regina Leader Post published about Derek on December 20th, please go to:
http://www.leaderpost.com/sports/Halldorson+skilled+player+also+modest/4002054/story.html?id=4002054

On Sunday afternoon the host Semans Wheat Kings defeated the Bethune Bulldogs 8-6. Jared Molnar and Darren Lynch each scored twice for the Wheat Kings while Jason Bast, Denny Joyal, Colin Bryant and Kellen Sillinger each scored once. Brennan Cox led the way for the Bulldogs with a hat trick while Dustin MacAngus, Jeremy Forbes and Tyler Riche also picked up goals in the loss for the Bulldogs. Scott Monroe picked up the win in net for the Wheat Kings while Ryan Seibel took the loss in the Bulldog net.

Changes this week...Bethune adds locals Craig Ulmer, Trent Ulmer, Brennan Wolfe and Carmen Curtis. Cupar adds Davis Brown and Tyson Sievert and drops Jon Kress and Steve Johnston. Avonlea adds local Chris Prohar. Wynyard adds local Brad Both and elite Tyler Murray.Semans adds non elites Rick Herbel, Quinn Broda and Ricky Nygaard. Strasbourg adds Rob McVigor and Linden Wilcock and releases Stacey Blevins and Lance Kelln.

Watch for statistics to be updated this week, remember that all game sheets are available on our "Schedule/Scores" page by clicking on HHL Box Scores at top of page and that will take you to the download page. I will post scores and make comments on Twitter and you can follow me at GeraldT. Thank you for your support of the HHL and please get out to a game near you this week.

On Tuesday evening the Cupar Canucks were in Semans to play the Wheat Kings. The game was tied at 3 after one period and the Canucks actually had a 6-4 lead early in the third period only to see the Wheat Kings come storming back with five goals in the third to win 9-7. Jaret Molnar had 3 goals and 2 assists while Kellen Sillinger had 2 goals and 3 assists and Darren Lynch had 2 goals and one assist. Also scoring for the Wheat Kings were Tyler Baer and Denny Joyal. Justin Schulhauser had a natural hat trick for the Canucks and Jon Kress scored twice. Also scoring for Cupar were Ryan Bahan and Tyson Sievert while Donovan Chow had three assists. Troy Granatier picked up the win in net for the Wheat Kings and Tyler Roberts took the loss for the Canucks.

On Wednesday night the first game of the Highway 11 series started in Bethune as the Bulldogs pounded the Lumsden Monarchs 7-0. The Bulldogs were led by Tyler Van Luven with two goals, one of which was a power play goal, and David Clow with two goals. Goals were also scored by Derek Fuchs, Travis Holt and Ryan Cox. Ryan Seibel stopped 21 shots for the shut out win. Trevor Thiessen took the loss in net for the Monarchs and faced 42 shots. Game two of this series takes place in Lumsden on Tuesday evening. On Wednesday evening the Strasbourg Maroons will be in Southey for a 7 p.m. game and the Raymore Rockets will be in Semans for an 8 p.m. game. That will be it for 2010 and we resume play with an afternoon game on January 2nd, 2011 at 2 p.m. as the Bethune Bulldogs will be in Semans.

Please note the following changes to our schedule:

The Cupar @ Semans game scheduled for Wednesday, December 22nd has been moved to Tuesday, December 21st with a starting time of 8:30 p.m.

The Strasbourg @ Southey game scheduled for Wednesday, December 29th 8 p.m. has been moved ahead to 7 p.m.

The Semans @ Lumsden game scheduled for Friday, January 7th has been moved to Friday, January 14th.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

We had eight games this past weekend and for the second weekend in a row there were a lot of goals scored. Scoring is definitely up...last weekend we had 73 goals in 6 games and this weekend we had 89 games in 8 games.

On Saturday evening our top two teams met in Wynyard and the hometown Monarchs came away with a 7-6 victory over the Raymore Rockets in overtime. The Rockets had a 3-0 lead after the first period and a 6-4 lead after the second period. Donovan Hall tied the game in the 3rd and Kelsey Leffler scored the winner three minutes into overtime for the Monarch win. Kevin Falloon, Clint Proznik, Joe Van Os each scored while Theran Yeo added two more for the Monarchs. Adam Jordan picked up the win in net while Warren Niekamp took the loss for the Rockets. Each team had six minor penalties. These two teams meet again in Wynyard on January 8th. With the win the Monarchs have now beat the Rockets twice this season. Also on Saturday evening the Lumsden Monarchs went into Semans and came away with a 5-4 victory. Both teams had short benches and Lumsden Coach Casey Lawford came out of retirement and scored three times including the game winner. The Southey Marlins also won on the road with 7-3 victory over the Bethune Bulldogs. In Avonlea, Gavin Mievre scored three times, James Ardelan and Calvin Watson each scored twice while Sean Miller scored once to give the Arrows an 8-1 victory over the Strasbourg Maroons. Evan Meyers had the lone goal for the Maroons. That was the second victory of the weekend for the Arrows as they defeayed the Southey Marlins in Southey 6-5 on Friday evening. Also on Friday the Wynyard Monarchs got four goals from Theran Yeo and five assists from Kelsey Leffler in a 11-2 home victory over the Semans Wheat Kings. In Strasbourg Friday evening, the Raymore Rockets had four goals and two assists from Todd MacMurchy, two goals and four assists from Ryan Cruse and two goals from Dallas Thiessen and Tyrell Shulko for a 10-5 win over the Maroons. Warren Niekamp picked up the win for the Rockets while Stacey Blevins took the loss in net for the Maroons.

We have two games scheduled before Christmas. The Cupar Canucks visit the Semans Wheay Kings on Tuesday evening at 8:30 p.m. and on Wednesday the Highway 11 series begins with the Lumsden Monarchs in Bethune for an 8 p.m. start.

The game sheets for each game are located at the top of the page on the "Schedules/Scores' page marked "2010-11 HHL Box Scores". As a reminder for those of you using Twitter, I am updating scores from the HHL as best I can...you can follow me on my Twitter account GeraldT. If you have any questions or comments please post them there or send an email to me or any of the executive at your convenience.

Thank you for supporting the Highway Hockey League.

On Wednesday evening the Southey Marlins defeated the Lumsden Monarchs 8-5 in Southey. Matt Miller had a hat trick while Chad Mazurak and Dan Morin each scored twice and Curtis Markewich scored once. Replying for the Monarchs were Austin Preete, David Fisher, Tyson Getzinger, Riley Agopsowicz and Justin Ewanchuk. Ryan Senft picked up the win in net for the Marlins. With the win the Marlins moved into third place.

On Friday evening we have the Bethune Bulldogs (3-3-0) in Cupar to meet the Canucks (2-2-2), the Avonlea Arrows (3-4-1) are in Southey to take on the Marlins (4-2-0), the first place Raymore Rockets (7-1-0) are in Strasbourg to play the Maroons (1-7-0) and the Semans Wheat Kings (3-2-0) are Wynyard to play the Monarchs (6-0-1). On Saturday evening the Lumsden Monarchs (2-6-0) are in Semans, the first and second place teams square off in Wynyard as the Rockets and Monarchs meet and Strasbourg will be in Avonlea for a 7:30 start.

After this weekend there are only five games left to be played in 2010 so please get out to a game near you.

Unfortunately the Avonlea @ Cupar game scheduled for Saturday evening has been postponed. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes anyone. On Friday evening all teams except Cupar will be in action. The first place Raymore Rockets (5-1-0) are in Southey to face the Marlins (3-1-0) and the second place Wynyard Monarchs (4-0-1) visit the Lumsden Monarchs (2-4-0). Also on Friday the Semans Wheat Kings (2-2-0) open up their rink against the visiting Strasbourg Maroons (1-5-0) and the Bethune Bulldogs (2-2-0) visit the Avonlea Arrows (3-3-1).

On Saturday evening there are two games scheduled. The Raymore Rockets visit the Bethune Bulldogs and the Wynyard Monarchs visit the Strasbourg Maroons. All of the scores are registered on our Schedules/Scores page and remember that all game sheets are posted within a day and may be viewed by clicking the “2010-11 Box Scores” link at the top of the Schedules/Scores page.

After a full weekend and a Tuesday night game we are now 24 games into our 81 game season. Derek Back from the Strasbourg Maroons has surged into the scoring lead with a league leading 12 goals and 8 assists in 6 games. Kevin Falloon from the Wynyard Monarchs leads the league in assists and sits in second place with 4 goals and 11 assists in 5 games. Tyler Stewart of the Cupar Canucks with 10 goals and 4 assists is next and he is tied with Todd MacMurchy of the Raymore Rockets who has 8 goals and 6 assists. Cupar’s Ryan Bahan is nect with 13 points and he is followed by Theran Yeo and Ryan Peterson of the Wynyard Monarchs who have 12 points each. Mike Anderson of the Wynyard Monarchs has 11 points and he is tied with Ryan Cruse of the Raymore Rockets who scored a natural hat trick, including the OT winner against the Avonlea Arrows on Sunday.

The Raymore Rockets lead the league with a goaltending average of 2.83 (Niekamp, Orthner & Fischl). The Southey Marlins are next with a 3.25 GAA (Senft) and the Semans Wheat Kings are next with a 3.75 GAA (Munroe, Granatier).

The top power play in the league belongs to the Wynyard Monarchs with a 34.5% success rate. They are followed by the Avonlea Arrows at 31.8% and the Southey Marlins at 28.6%. The top Penalty kill unit belongs to the Southey Marlins at 91.7%. They are followed by the Wynyard Monarchs at 85% and then the Bethune Bulldogs at 83.3%. There have been 9 short handed goals scored thus far. Southey, Wynyard and Raymore have each scored 2. The Lumsden Monarchs have given up 4 short handed goals. Theran Yeo from Wynyard leads all scorers with 5 power play goals.

The Avonlea Arrows are the least penalized team in the league with 11.33 penalty minutes per game. On the other side of the equation, the Southey Marlins are the most penalized team in the league averaging 38.75 minutes per game. Suspensions this week – David Clive, Bethune Bulldogs 3 games.

Thank you for supporting the Highway Hockey League and we hope you can get out to a game near you this weekend. We will post scores as son as we get them….I have been a follower of too many on Twitter for too long so I will now post scores and any updates on my account GeraldT…as always if you have any questions or comments please feel free to email me at anytime.

Congratulations to the Cupar Canucks who took over first place on Saturday evening with a 6-5 shootout win over the Wynyard Monarchs. Powered by four goals from Tyler Stewart and a goal and two assists from Jordan Morgan, the Canucks built a 5-3 lead going into the third period. The Monarchs scored three power play goals including two in the third period to tie the game up and take this game to overtime and eventually into a shoot out. Scoring for the Monarchs were Donovan Hall, Ryan Peterson, Aaron Lindal and two from Kevin Falloon. Brett Thomas was in net for the Canucks and Adam Jordan was in net for the Monarchs. In Strasbourg, The Maroons were hosting the Lumsden Monarchs. Led by a hat trick and two assists from Derek Back and the goaltending of Tyler Kifferling, the Maroons collected their first win of the season with a 7-4 victory. Brendan Eisnor, Casey Heintz, Trent Hilderman and Todd McKnight also scored for the Maroons. Scoring for the Monarchs came from Jason Henry, Riley Agopsowicz, Jeff Lawson and David Fisher. Also on Saturday evening the Semans Wheat Kings defeated the Avonlea Arrows 8-1. It was a natural hat trick for Jared Molnar while Darren Lynch and Kellen Sillinger each scored twice. Also scoring for the Wheat Kings was Derek Parker. Scoring the lone goal for the Arrows was Jaret Nelson. Scott Munroe picked up the Wheat King’s first win of the year while Justin Mrazek took the loss for the Arrows.

On Friday evening there were two games. In Lumsden the Southey Marlins won 3-1. The Marlins had 16 minor penalties and the Monarchs nine. The Marlins scored on power play goals from Jaret Eberle and Matt Miller and also had a shorthanded tally, when down two players, from Chad Mazurak. Steve Eberts scored for the Monarchs. Ryan Senft picked up the win for the Marlins while Ryan Rankin took the loss for the Monarchs. Also on Friday, the Raymore Rockets clobbered the visiting Strasbourg Maroons 13-2. Todd MacMurchy scored four times and had two assists for the Rockets. Tyrell Shulko and Ryan Cruse each had two goals. The balance of the scoring came from Josh Jordan, Dallas Thiessen, Byron Horvath, Brett Kuglin and Andrew Bacon. Warren Niekamp picked up the win in net. Scoring for the Maroons came from Trent Hilderman and Derek Back.

Suspensions given out this week include Dillon Hubick, Strasbourg Maroons-one game, Justin Ewanchuk, Lumsden Monarchs-one game and Milton Mohr, Jaret Eberle, Mac Hubic and Mitch Robinson, all from Southey Marlins-each one game.

Top power play in league belongs to Southey Marlins at 42.9% efficiency. The Bethune Bulldogs and Wynyard Monarchs are next at 36.4%. Top penalty kill unit belongs to Southey Marlins at 93.3%. The Avonlea Arrows are next at 90% and then the Bethune Bulldogs are at 87%.

Our scoring leader with 10 goals and 4 assists in 4 games is Tyler Stewart from the Cupar Canucks. He is followed by Derek Back from Strasbourg and Ryan Bahan from Cupar who each have 12 points in 4 games. Andrew Bacon of the Rockets has 10 points in 4 games and Tyson Sievert from Cupar has 10 points in 3 games. Warren Niekamp leads all goalies with a 1.00 GAA and he is followed by Lumsden’s Ryan Rankin who has a 2.79 GAA.

We have three games on Friday evening. The Lumsden Monarchs (1-3-0) host the Strasbourg Maroons (1-3-0), the Cupar Canucks (2-0-2) are in Raymore to face the Rockets (3-1-0) and the Semans Wheat Kings (1-2-0) are in Southey to play the Marlins (2-0-0).

On Saturday evening Southey is in Cupar, the Avonlea Arrows (1-3-0) are in Strasbourg and the Bethune Bulldogs (2-1-0) are in Wynyard to face the first place Monarchs (3-0-1). On Sunday afternoon the Raymore Rockets (3-1-0) are in Avonlea to play the Arrows at 4 p.m.

Thank you for supporting the HHL and please get out to a game near you.

On Wednesday evening we had two games on the schedule. In Raymore, the Rockets were powered by a natural hat trick from Josh Jordan on the first three goals of the game and cruised to a 9-0 victory over the Lumsden Monarchs. Dallas Thiessen had two goals and the balance of the scoring came from Tyrell Shulko, Josh Belair, Byron Horvath and Todd MacMurchy. Andrew Bacon had five assists while Josh Belair and Kyle Schmalenburg each had three assists. Warren Niekamp picked up the win in net while Trevor Thiessen took the loss for Lumsden. The Rockets had one power play goal and scored shorthanded twice in the third period.

In Bethune the Bulldogs scored four times in the second period and pulled away with a 7-2 victory over the Semans Wheat Kings. Dustin MacAngus scored four times and had an assist for the Bulldogs. Also scoring for Bethune were Tyler Van Luven, Travis Holt and Jeremy Forbes. Justin Hebert picked up the win in net for the Bulldogs. Scoring for Semans came from Kellen Sillinger and Darren Lynch. Jared Molnar assisted on both goals. Tony Granatier took the loss in net for the Wheat Kings.

We have two games on Friday evening. The Lumsden Monarchs host defending champions Southey Marlins and Strasbourg will be in Raymore. On Saturday evening we have three games. Semans Wheat Kings will be in Avonlea, Lumsden will be in Strasbourg and Wynyard will be in Cupar to battle for first place.

Please try and get out to a game near you this weekend and thank you for supporting the HHL.

Action resumed on Friday evening as the Lumsden Monarchs played their first game of the year at home against the Avonlea Arrows. The Monarchs won 4-1. Avonlea was playing with a shorter bench for this game but still had plenty of chances to score in this game if not for the play of winning goalie Trevor Thiessen who stopped 28 shots. At the other end of the ice Justin Mrazek did all he could to keep his team in the game stopping 39 of 42 shots. Lumsden’s scoring came from Austin Preete in the first period, Brett Matlock in the second period and Riley Agopsowich in the third. Gavin Mievre scored a power play goal with just under three minutes to go and Lumsden finished with an empty net goal from Brett Matlock. In Cupar the Canucks hosted the Bethune Bulldogs who were also playing their first game of the year. If you wanted scoring this was the game to be at. The Canucks powered their way to a 9-6 win. It was 3-3 after one and 7-5 Cupar after two periods. Despite tweleve minor penalties to Bethune and six for Cupar each team only scored one power play goal. The trio of Ryan Bahan, Tyson Sievert and Tyler Stewart each scored two goals for the Canucks. Tyson Melnychuk, Donovan Chow and Davis Brown also scored for the Canucks. Bethune scoring came from Dustin McAngus who had two goals and from Kayne Ulmer, Tyler Van Luven, Tyler Riche and Trevor Shier. All four goalies played in this game. Bethune’s Ryan Siebel allowed six goals in 35 minutes while Justin Hebert went the rest of the way allowing three goals and taking the loss. Cupar’s Tyler Roberts picked up the win and played until the first minute of the third period allowing six goals. Brett Thomas went the rest of the way without allowing another goal. The other game Friday evening featured our League Champion Southey Marlins playing their first game of the year in Strasbourg for the Maroons home opener. The Maroons stayed close but the Marlins pulled out a 7-5 victory. Penalties were a problem for the Maroons as they had 15 minor penalties and the Marlins took advantage of that with four power play goals. The Maroons had one power play goal in the third during a 5 minute power play. Kane Ludwar scored twice for the Marlins with the rest of the scoring coming from Curtis Markewich, Kyle Ermel, Hubick Mackenzie, Derek Halldorson and Brendan Jasper. Halldorson was part of the scoring for all four PP goals and ended the evening with five points.. Maroons scoring came from Derek Back and Casey Heintz with two goals each and a power play marker from John Davis. Tyler Kifferling took the loss for the Maroons while Ryan Senft picked up his first win for the Marlins.

On Saturday evening we had three more games on the schedule. Bethune opened up their home schedule against the 2-0-0 Wynyard Monarchs. There was lots of scoring in the first period with the Monarchs scoring four times. Theran Yeo scored the first two goals, including a power play goal. Kelsey Leffler scored and then with 11 seconds left in the first period Aaron Lindal scored their second power play goal. The Bulldogs got scoring from Kayne Ulmer, Ryan Fishley and Tyler Van Luven. The Bulldogs took seven more minor penalties in the next two periods but held on until Jeremy Forbes scored with just over three minutes left in the game. The Bulldogs took another minor in overtime but held on to take this game to a shoot out. Travis Holt scored the shoot out winner for the Bulldogs. Ryan Siebel picked up the win for the Bulldogs while Mitch Wintonyk took the loss for the Monarchs. Avonlea Arrows played their home opener against the red hot Cupar Canucks. This game also went to overtime and the Arrows pulled out their first win of the year with 6-5 victory. This was certainly an interesting way to get to overtime as the Arrows scored five times in the first period. This included short handed goals from Gavin Mievre and two power play goals on the only two chances they had from Calvin Watson and Gavin Mievre. Mievre completed the hat trick with another goal and Sean Miller also scored. There was no scoring in the second period and then the Canucks struck with five goals in the third period. Tyson Sievert picked up a hat trick, including the game tying goal with just over a minute to go. Tyler Wilyman and Tyler Stewart also scored. Three minutes into overtime Calvin Watson scored the winner for the Arrows. League MVP Justin Mrazek picked up the win for the Arrows and Brett Thomas was in net for the Canucks. Our last game of the weekend pitted one of the oldest rivalries anywhere as the Semans Wheat Kings opened up the season in Raymore. The Wheat Kings opened up the scoring on a power play goal from Denny Joyal but the Rockets replied quickly on a goal from Colin Herman. The Rockets then took the lead for good on a goal from Josh Belair. In the second period Ryan Cruse and Tyrell Shulko scored for the Rockets and Joey MacDonald scored for the Wheat Kings. Shulko picked up his second goal of the game in the third and Joel Humphries finished the scoring for the Wheat Kings to make the final score 5-3 for the Rockets. Kevin Orthner picked up the win for the Rockets and Colin Munroe was in net for the Wheat Kings.

Our upgraded site is now up and running and all statistics are up to date. It’s early but after three games Ryan Bahan with 12 points and Tyler Stewart and Tyson Sievert with 10 points lead the League in scoring. Sievert and Stewart along with Theran Yeo from Wynyard lead the way with six goals each.

We have two games on Wednesday evening. The 0-1-0 Semans Wheat Kings are in Bethune to play the 1-1-0 Bulldogs and the 1-0-0 Lumsden Monarchs are in Raymore to play the 1-1-0 Rockets.

Pocket schedules are available in all of our communities and you can also pick them up in Regina at Extreme Hockey or Western Cycle.

Thank you for supporting the Highway Hockey League and please get out to a game near you.

Action began Friday evening as the Wynyard Monarchs were in Raymore. Led by a natural hat trick (all power play goals) from Theran Yeo, the Monarchs skated to a 6-2 victory. Also scoring for the Monarchs were Kelsey Leffler, Aaron Lindal (short handed) and Ryan Richards. Kevin Falloon had three assists for the winners. Raymore scoring came from Dallas Thiessen and Scott Degelman. Adam Jordan picked up the win in net and Nathan Fischl took the loss. On Saturday evening the League welcomed back the Strasbourg Maroons as they took on the Canucks in Cupar. The Canucks won 10-3. Tyler Stewart scored a hat trick for the Canucks while Jordan Morgan and Ryan Bahan scored two goals each. Other scoring for the Canucks came from Justin Schulhauser, Tyson Sievert and Tyson Melnychuk. Brett Thomas picked up the win in net. Strasbourg’s scoring came from John Davis, Evan Meyers and Derek Back. Tyler Kifferling took the loss in net for the Maroons. Wynyard completed the weekend with an 8-4 victory over the Avonlea Arrows at home. Aaron Lindal scored twice as did Ryan Richards to lead the Monarchs. Theran Yeo, Travis Stevens, Ryan Peterson and Mike Kesserling also scored for Wynyard. Kevin Falloon picked up another three assists as did Mike Anderson. Adam Jordan picked up his second win of the year. Mike Miller, Andrew Mievre, Gavin Mievre and Mark Jelenski scored for the Arrows. 2010 League MVP Justin Mrazek took the loss in net for Avonlea.

Everyone is in action this weekend. On Friday evening the Avonlea Arrows are in Lumsden, Bethune Bulldogs are in Cupar and our defending League Champs, Southey Marlins, are in Strasbourg for the Maroons home opener. On Saturday evening the Canucks visit Avonlea, Wynyard visits Bethune and Semans opens up their season in Raymore. On Sunday we are all watching our Riders.

As I have mentioned before we are only a few days from launching our site makeover and at that time our contact lists, statistics and rosters will be posted.

Scores are posted just as soon as we get them on the Schedule/Scores page. Please note there is a tab at the top of that page where you can download game sheets for each game.

Pocket schedules are available everywhere in our towns and in Regina at sports stores. Please get out to a game near you and thank you for supporting the Highway Hockey League.

The 45th season of the Highway Hockey League begins Friday evening when the Wynyard Monarchs visit the Raymore Rockets. The Rockets will be wearing their road uniforms at this game. On Saturday evening Wynyard hosts our most southern team, the Avonlea Arrows. Also on Saturday evening our League welcomes back the Strasbourg Maroons as they will be in Cupar to play the Canucks. Bethune, Lumsden and Southey begin their season next Friday and Semans begins next Saturday. The Semans at Bethune exhibition game from Wednesday was cancelled due weather and there is no word on whether that game will be played this week. Lumsden hosts Montmartre in exhibition action on Friday evening.

Our website touch up is coming, the schedule is posted, rosters will be up this week and most importantly.... our traditional pocket schedules are back and will be in your community this weekend. We will have pocket schedules in Regina sporting goods outlets next week.

Stay tuned and thank you for supporting senior hockey and the HHL.

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