Boys league game recaps from the Oct. 29-31 weekend. The game recaps are supplied by the home team and posted when they are received, coupled with the availability of the webmaster. 

FRIDAY, OCT. 29

Central Kings 5 – Park View 1

This was the first game of the season between the Park View Panthers and the Central Kings Gators. Park View's starting goalie was Owen Lockwood and Central Kings' starting goalie was Brennan Knox.

At the 15:49 mark of the first period, Nathan Langille chipped the puck out of the zone to Connor White, who took a big hit to chip the puck ahead to Sam Rogers. Rogers broke down the right wing, slipped a pass from the goal-line back to a trailing Ethan (Woody) Wood to score his first of the season, making it 1-0 Central Kings (Wood, from Rogers, White).

Late in the first period at 0:24, Jonas Talbot showed some great speed through the neutral zone, breaking down the right wing and getting a shot on net. A loose puck in the blue paint was picked up by Landon Morash, who chipped it in to tie the game up at 1-1 (Morash, from Talbot).

Central Kings had 12 shots on goal, while Park View had 10 shots on goal.

Starting the second period, at 18:35, Sam Rogers carried the puck over the blueline, split the defense, and slipped a pass through the blue paint to #16 Matt Churchill.  Churchill shot for the mesh and scored. Central Kings went ahead 2-1 with Churchill’s first ever goal as a Gator (Churchill, from Rogers).

At 9:48 of the second period, on the powerplay, Aidan Meister won a draw cleanly back to Sam Rogers who snapped a shot on goal deflected by Cody Hebb, making it 3-1 Gators.  This was Cody’s first goal as a Gator. (Hebb, from Rogers, Meister). 

Play for the next 8 to 10 minutes went back and forth between Park View and Central Kings.  Late in the period, Matt Churchill picked up the puck in the CK end and chipped a pass into the Park View end for Sam Rogers.  Rogers made an evasive move to elude the Panthers’ defence and shot it into the Park View net, making it a 4-1 game (Rogers, from Churchill). At the end of the second period, shots were 27 for the Central Kings and 17 for Park View.

Park View came out with strong play in the third period, carrying the bulk of the play over the first 15 minutes.  Late in the third, at 4:23 on the power play, Rogers on the point chipped a pass to Aidan Meister on the half-wall.  Meister moves to the slot and shot with Watty Walker, redirecting the shot into the back of the net to make it a 5-1 final for the Gators.

Final shots were Central Kings: 34, Park View 23.

Forest Heights Falcons 8 - Digby Mariners 5

Forest Heights Community School held its Pink in the Rink to honour those who have been impacted by breast cancer. Process from admission from the game were donated to cancer research. The evening started with a ceremony involving each player dedicating to an individual or group who have been impacted by breast cancer. Our hearts go out to everyone who has lost a loved one to this dreadful disease, and the Forest Heights family encourages all our loved ones to get early screening for breast cancer.

The game was an exciting one to say the least and the arena was electric. With only one goal in the first period for FHCS it looked like it was destined to be a close one. Early in the second Digby tied the game up, but something happened to start at the 13:05-mark that no one could have foreseen. The Falcons lit up the scoreboard with 5 unanswered goals in 6 minutes and 18 seconds. The period saw one more goal from each team and the second period ended with the score at 7:2 for the Falcons.

After the intermission, the Mariners came out strong battling back with 3 of their own. The comeback push was led by Longmire who scored, or assisted on, all but one of the Mariners’ goals on the night. They could not however close the gap enough before Matt Hill set up Dylan Rafuse to finished off a double hat trick with 40 sec remaining on the clock.

SUNDAY, OCT. 31

Yarmouth 2 – Barrington 1

The Yarmouth Vikings hosted the Barrington Barons on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 31.

The game started out evenly matched in the 1st period with Yarmouth scoring a goal with 5 minutes remaining in the frame to take a 1-0 lead in the first period. The Vikings’ goal was scored by Jaleel Horton, assisted by Ben MacDonald and Cameron Brown.

In the second period, Yarmouth ran into penalty troubles but Barrington could not capitalize on the man advantage. However, the Barons did score late in the second period to tie the game 1-1. Scoring for Barrington was Owen Penney, assisted by Dakota Ryer and Drew Goreham.

The third period brought penalty trouble for Barrington, with Yarmouth scoring their second goal of the game, and also the game winner, on the powerplay. That goal was scored by Daniel Kenney and assisted by Luke MacLeay and Cameron Brown.

Both goalies played well and made some key saves to keep the game close during the matchup, which was won 2-1 by the Vikings.

Central Kings 4 – Horton 3

The Central Kings Gators hosted the Horton Griffins for an Oct. 31 game.

The early lead went to the Horton Griffins with Colin Tracey (unassisted) scoring with a shot from the point that squeaked in the near post to make it 1-0 Horton. At the 13:31 mark of the first period, with some play from behind the Horton net, Sam Rogers skated out to shoot upstairs, scoring to even the game @1:1 (Rogers, assists Hebb, Turner). 

The rest of the period had play go back and forth, with several power play opportunities for both teams and strong goaltending on both ends of the ice (Goalies, Albrecht and Veinotte). At the end of one the score was Horton 1, Central Kings 1.

Scoring opened up in the second period on a goal by Horton @14:06.  The goal came from very strong play by Horton in the CK corner with Cayden Anderson tapping in a rebound, after a shot by Sorbetti (Anderson, from Sorbetti, Clarke).  With 4:05 remaining in the second period, Central King's Sam Rogers picked up a loose puck on the CK blueline and raced down the left wing to score, bringing the game to a draw at the end of the second period.

The third period opened up with a quick Horton goal with a shot to Locke Albrecht’s right with a bounce off the back glass behind the net, over the crossbar, and into the CK goal.  Unassisted goal by Horton, # 20, CJ Zinck (Zinck, unassisted). 

CK evened the score at 12:06 in the third with a high chip pass off the glass by Liam Moore, picked up by Sam Rogers, who scored on the back hand, evening the game (Rogers, from Moore).  Central Kings scored a powerplay goal with Cody Hebb tapping in a rebound with CK taking a 4-3 lead with 5:16 left in the game (Hebb, from Churchill, Rogers). 

With no further scoring in the game, the final score was Central Kings 4 – Horton 3. 

Thank you to Horton Griffins for the game and to all the fans for their support.  Thanks to Dave White for the videography and play by play of today’s game.