Our first SJHL broadcast of the season has the Yorkton Terriers on home ice against the Weyburn Red Wings. The Terriers lost their top defensive pairing in Greg Coburn (also the club's leading scorer with 47 pts) and Kirk Byczynski, along with forwards like Derek Serdachny, Bryan Hull and Corey Silverson to graduation. Jordan Menke is the Terriers' highest returning scorer from last season, putting up 38 points while playing in all 56 games in 08-09. Torey Stott was right behind him with 36 points, and a team-high 18 goals last season. No Terrier has scored 20 goals in the 2 seasons I've been here. Kyle Block came the closest with 19 in 2007-08. Will someone do it this year? Hmm sounds like a good poll question! Please vote! With Stott and Menke coming close last year and both back, and full seasons out of Clarke Breitkreuz and David Skagen, I'm thinking it will happen, maybe more than once.Catch the broadcast tonight starting at 7:20 SK time on GX94, or http://www.gx94radio.com/ .
The Mils didn't have much respect at this time last year, and they started the 2008-09 season with a record of 17-2-2. It all started when they swept an opening weekend home-and-home with the Bruins... and they'll look for a similar start this year. A source tells me Michael Jordan has been named captain of the 09-10 Mils, with Austin Krahenbil, Tyson Melnychuk and Matt Kinnunen the assistants. The Mils had four 20+ goal scorers last year, and could have had as many as 6 if not for injuries. Five of their top six point getters are gone (Hope, Lind, Dolinski, Murray, Stanicky), with Logan Herauf their top scoring returnee (50 pts in 53 games). Aaron Decorby had 31 pts in 35 games, and a full season out of him could see him lead the team. Look for Kinnunen and Melnychuk to up their digits from last year, and Krahenbil and Jordan Reeve to be one of the league's top D pairings. Goaltending's a little green, at least at the SJHL level, with 20-year-old Brady Wilyman having just 3 games of SJHL experience, but plenty more in the AJHL prior to that. 16-year-old Zach Rakochy will back him up.Other opening nighters:
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Busy Weekend starts for me in a couple hours. Here's what is in store for me.
Friday Afternoon: Golf at Deer Park
Friday Night: Terrier Home Opener
Saturday Morning: English Premier League Soccer on Sportsnet.
Saturday Afternoon: YHRS Gridder Game.
Saturday Night: NCAA Football
Sunday Morning: English Premier Soccer on the Score
Rest of Sunday: CFL/NFL Action.
Monday Afternoon: More Golfing at Deer Park.
Monday Night: MNF
How's that for a great weekend!!!
Seriously? EPL??? I like everything else though!
Yeah, for some reason I can watch Soccer especially the World Cup.
The only thing that I hate about it is all of the diving and injury faking but otherwise I can get into it.
West Ham United is my team and the only reason for that is because it's Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris's team.
He was such a good player when he was younger that he was actually part of their "Farm" system back in the 70's.
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