The Melville Millionaires are on a roll, and will roll into Nipawin (TUE) and Melfort (WED) this week.The Mils have won 7 of their last 8 games, to sit 12-2-1 for the season with 25 points, 3 points better than second place Weyburn.
You know you have a good thing going when your top two lines have been quiet the last few games, and you're still winning. That's because Melville's third line of Tyson Melnychuk, Michael Jordan, and SJHL Player of the Week Shane Stanicky have combined for 13 points in their last 2 games. Stanicky has 5 points in his last 2, while his linemates have added 4 each during that time.
Head to Head this season, the Mils are 2-and-0 with 6-2 and 4-1 victories. Melville's Aaron Decorby leads both teams in the season series with 3 goals and 5 points. His 3 goals and one of his assists all came in the 6-2 win on home ice September 20th.
Nipawin defenseman Taylor Thiessen has been the hottest Hawk recently, with a goal and 11 points over his last 10 games. Thiessen is tied for the team lead in scoring with forward Torey Dyck with 14 points each.
Despite having the SJHL's fewest points (9), the Nipawin Hawks' special teams are among the league's best. Their 26.2% powerplay is second best in the league, half a percent behind Humboldt. Their penalty kill is also second in the league, at 85%. Humboldt leads the way at 89.4%.
The Mils will see 19-year-old defenseman Jordan Reeve make his se
ason debut, coming off a broken leg he suffered in the off-season. Reeve was a top-2 defenseman with the Mils last season, and probably was their best defenseman a lot of nights. He's got the ability to play the powerplay and put up points, but is best known for his puck moving and open ice hits. He'll be a stud this season, and because of Melville's light schedule to start the year, missed only 15 games.Join us for the Pre Game Show at 7:20 tonight, Play by Play at 7:30 on GX94. I was going to run Colorado Avalanche defenseman Brett Clark on the Mils' 100 Years of Memories for the Yorkton/Melville game that we had to postpone on October 10th. So I'll run Clark either tonight or tomorrow night. I'm thinking I might also surprise Ass't Coach Neil Lamberty and do a feature with him on this trip. I believe he's actually from the Nipawin (White Fox???) area.
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The Yorkton Terriers have a similar road trip this week... they're in Kindersley tonight, and Battleford tomorrow. The Terriers are third in the Sherwood... 2 points ahead of Kindersley... and 2 back of second place Weyburn.
Notre Dame also travels to Humboldt tonight.
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Former Terrier Logan Dew makes his Wayway Wolverines debut as the Wolves host the Winkler Flyers tonight at 7:30. Wayway's still right in the thick of the Sherwood Division standings, but had a disappointing weekend that saw them pick up 1 of a possible four points in Winkler and Winnipeg South.
2 comments:
Its nice to see Reeve back, especially when they are back at home so the jersey that we sponsor will actually be on the ice.
I was wondering if you had any information on Taylor Jordan. As was reported on the sjhl messageboard Taylor was not dressed for any of the games this weekend for Portland as they made their trip through saskatchewan. It doesn't make much sense for him to go to Portland to not play.
Thanks for the comment. Here's my post about T. Jordan with some Fiesel quotes, not sure if you've seen it.
http://craigstein.blogspot.com/2008/10/t-jordan-goes-back-to-dub.html
I agree, and personally I would think if he's not playing there he'd return, given the ice time he was getting with the Mils and the impact he was making, but I can't speak for him. Feez said with Jorgenson and Reeve coming back he was going to move Tayler to right wing with cousin Michael and Kinnunen. Could you imagine the size of that line?
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