December 19, 2016

Cougars increase lead; Chiefs and Hawks press Rockets

Two more wins by the Cariboo Cougars and series split for the Okanagan Rockets this past weekend has widened the Cougars first place lead two more points, to seven over the second place Kelowna squad.

It’s a similar story for the the NE Chiefs and Valley West Hawks, who also swept with two wins. Both teams have now edged up two points on the Rockets, and are now just three back, in a tie for third place.

The Fraser Valley Thunderbirds also swept on the weekend and have locked down the final Top 5 spot at the turn, with a four point lead over GVC.

The North West Giants had the bye weekend.

The league now breaks for the holidays, with the four teams travelling to Calgary for the Mac’s Tournament – Cariboo, OK Rockets, NE Chiefs and GVC.

 

Week 13 Recaps:

North Island vs Cariboo Cougars

The Cougars dominated North Island 8-1 and 11-1 in their series at home. Dane Dubois scored four in the second game. Ty Kolle, Hunter Flores and Mason Richey had two goal games.

 

Okanagan Rockets vs Greater Vancouver Canadians

The Rockets opened with a 7-4 win vs GVC on three powerplay goals in game 1. Scores were 2-1 after the first and 4-2 after two. Coleton Bilodeau scored two.

GVC turned the tables in the second game, again 7-4. Scott Atkinson notched a hat-trick in the win. The game was tied 1-1 after the first, and 4-4 after two. Atkinson, Mutala, Atkinson (SH-EN), finished it.

 

South Island Royals vs Vancouver North East Chiefs

This was another rough weekend for an Island team – who were outscored 18-3 over the two games in Coquitlam.

Zach Dallazana scored three in in game 1, with Ethan Leyh, and Jessie Young notching two each.

In game two Dallazana scored a pair, to make it five over the weekend.

 

Thompson Blazers vs Valley West Hawks

Although this series was also a sweep, it was a tough contest. The Blazers opened the scoring in both contests, but the Hawks battled back in both games to win, 3-2 and 2-1.

Trent Thompson scored in both games for the Blazers, Bryce Anderson got a pair in game one for the Hawks.

 

Kootenay Ice vs Fraser Valley Thunderbirds

This was another close series, with the home team coming out top again with two wins. The T-Birds opened with a 3-0 win in game one, on a shutout by Boston Bilous. Justin Plett scored twice in the 5-2 win on Sunday.

 

Scoring Race –

OK Rockets Coleton Bilodeau edged ahead of NW Giants Liam Kindree (bye weekend) in the scoring race. The two have swapped #1 a couple of times now.

Ethan Leyh of the North East Chiefs is now tied with Max Kryski of the Okanagan Rockets in second place, closing a one point gap from last weekend.

The Cougars Daine Dubois’ big weekend vs North Island vaulted him into fourth place overall, one point up on three players tied at 34 points, Scott Atkinson (GVS), Tyler Ho (VW) and Chris Douglas (GVC).

Scroll down to see Top 40.

 

Goalies: Cougars Wilson on top

Not much has changed on the goalie front.

Cougars Zack Wilson notched two easy wins, and is now 12-1-0, and has lowered his GGA again even further to 1.18.

Teammate Marcus Allen did not play this weekend is the only other goalie in the league with just one loss, at 9-1-1.

OK Rockets Owen Patrick remains the only goalie with just two losses, at 10-2-0.

Kolby Matthews of the North East Chiefs got two more wins and is tied with Wickson with the most wins, at 12-3-0.

Boston Bilous of the Fraser Valley Thunderbirds continues to hold the second lowest GGA now 1.73 in 13 games, and rounds out the top five with a 8-3-2 record.

Scroll down for complete goalies stats.

 

Name	GP	W	L	T	OTL	Pts	GF	GA	PIM	PIM/G
Cariboo Cougars	18	16	1	1	0	33	83	29	448	24
OK Rockets	18	14	3	0	1	29	84	55	244	13
NE Chiefs	18	12	4	0	2	26	88	44	243	13
VW Hawks	18	10	5	1	2	23	70	48	370	20
GVC	20	10	7	2	1	23	81	63	313	15
FV T-Birds	18	9	5	3	1	22	59	37	244	13
NW Giants	18	8	7	2	1	19	75	66	219	12
Kootenay Ice	18	7	11	0	0	14	52	81	222	12
Blazers	18	4	14	0	0	8	32	88	455	25
SI Royals	18	2	13	1	2	7	38	95	331	18
NI Silvertips	18	3	15	0	0	6	38	94	270	15

 

Scoring Leaders, Week 13.

Top 20:

19	Bilodeau, Coleton	OK Rockets	F	24	17	25	42	52
17	Kindree, Liam	NW Giants	F	22	19	20	39	26
14	Leyh, Ethan	NE Chiefs	F	18	18	19	37	12
22	Kryski, Max	OK Rockets	F	23	16	21	37	32
19	Dubois, Daine	Cougars	F	24	14	21	35	16
9	Atkinson, Scott	GVC	F	22	18	16	34	56
19	Ho, Tyler	VW Hawks	F	24	14	20	34	14
15	Douglas, Chris	GVC	F	24	12	22	34	20
14	Richey, Mason	Cougars	F	24	20	12	32	4
17	Mutala, Sasha	GVC	F	23	11	21	32	10
12	Bassi, Rayman	OK Rockets	F	24	10	19	29	16
21	Delorme, Haydn	NE Chiefs	F	18	16	12	28	12
16	Gervais, Jeremy	Cougars	D	21	10	18	28	64
23	Kelly, Nathan	GVC	D	24	1	27	28	18
2	Gill, Kabir	VW Hawks	D	20	10	16	26	16
22	Gurney, Justyn	VW Hawks	F	19	8	18	26	65
8	Barton, Seth	OK Rockets	D	21	7	19	26	23
19	Schandor, Hudson	NW Giants	F	22	10	15	25	18
16	Rybinski, Henry	GVC	F	23	7	18	25	20
12	Evenson, Liam	NE Chiefs	F	20	7	18	25	14

Top 40:

#	Name	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
23	Graham, Jack	NW Giants	F	22	5	20	25	16
5	Bromhead, L.	NE Chiefs	F	22	10	14	24	22
8	Mastrodonato K.	NI Silvertips	F	22	13	10	23	30
7	Head, Wyatt	OK Rockets	D	21	8	14	22	12
18	Prpich, Dylan	OK Rockets	F	24	7	15	22	36
23	Floris, Hunter	Cougars	F	24	13	8	21	2
19	Buono, Christian	NE Chiefs	F	22	8	13	21	32
2	Patsey, Joel	Cougars	D	24	7	14	21	12
11	Perepeluk, Reid	Cougars	F	18	6	15	21	42
8	Araki-Young, M.	GVC	F	24	6	15	21	10
10	Takai, Sho	NE Chiefs	F	15	11	9	20	16
12	Krogfoss, Nolan	VW Hawks	F	23	10	10	20	4
17	Zummack, Eli	OK Rockets	F	10	6	14	20	6
19	Jang, Ethan	Kootenay Ice	F	23	11	8	19	32
5	Sutton, Devin	Cougars	F	23	9	10	19	32
21	Rees, Jonathan	FV Tbirds	F	24	7	12	19	20
20	Ryan, Liam	NE Chiefs	F	20	6	13	19	20
8	Young, Jessie	NE Chiefs	F	22	10	8	18	28
19	Landon, Ben	GVC	F	24	8	10	18	6
23	Anderson, Baxter	FV Tbirds	F	23	7	11	18	18

 

Goalies:

#	Name	Team	GP	W	L	T	Avg
35	Zach Wickson	Cougars	14	12	1	0	1.18
35	Kolby Matthews	NE Chiefs	16	12	3	0	2.15
1	Owen Partrick	OK Rockets	13	10	2	0	2.65
1	Marcus Allen	Cougars	12	9	1	1	2.10
35	Boston Bilous	FV Tbirds	13	8	3	2	1.73
35	Reece Klassen	VW Hawks	12	7	3	1	2.41
1	Jaysen MacLean	Kootenay Ice	15	7	7	0	4.16
1	Lukas Shaw	GVC	13	6	3	3	2.85
1	Jesse Makaj	NW Giants	10	5	4	1	2.68
35	Donovan Buskey	NW Giants	12	5	5	2	3.55
35	Nic Hoem	GVC	12	5	7	0	3.58
1	Chad Cromar	FV Tbirds	9	4	4	1	1.99
1	Dorrin Luding	VW Hawks	10	4	5	0	3.25
1	Ethan Langenegger	T. Blazers	16	4	9	0	4.85
1	Spencer Deakin	NI Silvertips	14	4	9	0	4.95
1	Jonathan Holloway	NE Chiefs	7	3	4	0	2.86
35	Jake Kemp	Kootenay Ice	12	2	5	0	4.75
35	James Brendeland	Ni Silvertips	14	2	9	0	5.16
35	Max Palaga	T. Blazers	13	1	9	0	3.77
35	Luke Sheldrake	SI Royals	12	1	9	1	5.33
1	Connor Cheyne	SI Royals	15	1	12	0	6.03
0	Xavier Cannon	T. Blazers	0	0	0	0
35	Cole Demers	OK Rockets	2	0	2	0	2.90