The Melville Millionaires were the only team in the league to win the season series against the Humboldt Broncos thanks to last night's (TUE) 4-1 win at the Stadium.
The win was Melville's 8th in a row to finish the season, and their 3rd straight 'W' against the Broncos, as the Mils went 3-and-1 against the top-ranked team in the nation.
Levi Lind, Michael Jordan and Casey Dion scored within the first 6 and a half minutes of the game. Tanner Vandesype scored for Humboldt in the second, before Melville's Shane Stanicky finished things off in the third.
Brady Wilyman won his third straight game, making 26 saves in the win, and the Mils finished the regular season with a record of 37-16-and-3, one point back of first place Weyburn.
The Millionaires and Yorkton Terriers square off in round one of the playoffs beginning next Friday in Melville.
As for Bronco defenseman Tanner Vandesype firing the puck into the crowd, like I said on the broadcast I'm not inside the guy's head, but there's no way he was just trying to clear the zone. If that's off the glass and out it's an easy icing, and the Broncos were on the powerplay. Granted, the fans over there were chirping, but you could kill a person doing that. He absolutely ripped a wrister right at the fans, and was issued a 10-minute misconduct, and beaked the Mils bench on the way by (when he knew they couldn't do anything because the linesman was seperating them). Good on Captain Daniel Hope for answering the bell... those are HIS fans and he let him know.
I think Vandesype's got word class skill, and on the .01% chance he wasn't actually trying to seriously injure a fan (and most likely he didn't hit the fan or fans yelling at him), I'll give him that much of a benefit of the doubt, but that should seriously be looked at by the league.
I don't make a habit of being controversial and I'm not attacking the guy, but there's no place for that.
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One other SJHL note:
Congrats to Notre Dame Hounds' forward Rylan Schwartz, who scored two goals in a 3-2 (OT) win in Kindersley to capture the SJHL scoring title. The 18-year-old finished with 39-goals, 48-assists for 87-points. His 16-year-old brother Jaden scored the overtime winner, and finished 5th in league scoring (34-42-76).
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MJHL
Swan Valley 0 @ Wayway 4
Jerrett Bicknell and Paul Marcoux scored two goals each and Jayme Janzen made 20 saves to record his first shutout. Josh Hohn was peppered in the Swan Valley net, stopping 49 of the 53 shots he faced. The Wolverines are home again tonight (WED) against Winkler, and then go to OCN tomorrow (THU) in a game we'll have on GX94, to round out their stretch of 4 games in 4 nights.
2 comments:
Got to agree with you and the Vandesype thing. that is absolute garbage. I don't care who you are but to deliberately turn and fire the puck straight into the side stands like that is crap. There is no doubt in my mind that the league should look at that. there is no difference between that and swinging a stick or something at a fan.
I seem to recall reading somehwere that Kyle Beach (Lethbridge Hurricanes) was suspended for 3 games after he shot the puck into the stands. Maybe the SJHL will look at similar disciplinary action.
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