Boys league game recaps from the Nov. 5-7 weekend. The game recaps are supplied by the home team and posted when they are received, coupled with the availability of the webmaster. 

Friday, Nov. 5

Park View 3 – West Kings 2

On Friday night West Kings hosted Park View for their first meeting this year. Both teams came out strong and had several chances, but the only team able to connect was WK scoring 5 minutes into the first and that’s how the period ended.

In the second PVEC were able to jump out quickly and scored 30 seconds into the period and it remained that way until they were able to score a short-handed goal halfway through the period to go up 2-1. Park View kept that lead until the end of the period.

PVEC got into a little penalty trouble early in the third and WK was able to tie it up 8 minutes in. After that, both teams had scoring chances but it was PVEC that was able to capitalize scoring with just over 3 minutes left. No matter how hard they tried WK was unable to tie it back up and the game ended with a PVEC 3-2 victory.

Scoring for PVEC were Ryan Jensen, Nathan Culbert and Ethan Corkum with the winner.

For WK it was Nathan Sheppard and Antoine Tringle.

NKEC 6 - Par-en-Bas 2

On Friday evening a well-coached and hard-working Par-en-Bas Sharks team visited the ice palace in Canning to play the NKEC Titans.  The Titans were looking for a little redemption after the loss to PEB the week before in the West Kings Tournament.  PEB arrived in Canning missing a few players on the backend due to prior commitments, but the TItans knew that things would not be easy.

The message to the Titans was to be committed and to match the work ethic and competitiveness that the Sharks will bring, and that is exactly what they did. 

The Titans started off strong and were matching the intensity of the Sharks.  The Titans scored first with Ryan Brown's first goal of the year, helping NKEC take the early lead.  With less than two minutes to play in the first period Mac Sinclair scored a short handed goal making the score 2 - 0 after the first period. 

The Titans were the better team in the first period, but they knew that the second period wouldn't be easy.  The Sharks regrouped for the second and controlled much of the play during the first ten minutes.  Their strong forecheck and tenacity was a little too much for the Titans to handle and the Sharks were able to tie the game up in the first 10 minutes by goals from Carson Deon and a beauty by Spencer Surette.   It looked like the Sharks had command of the game until the Titans were able to score a couple of quick goals in the last few minutes of the period by Adam Harris and Harrison Seaman.  The score was 4-2 for the TItans heading into the 3rd. 

The TItans were able to capitalize very quickly in the third period with another two goals to take a 6-2 lead.  The goals were scored by Peter MacDougall and Elliot Pashley.  The overall game was closer than the score reflects and these two teams will have a few more battles throughout the year.   Thanks to PEB for travelling to Canning and as well thank you to everyone who came out to support the teams.

Forest Heights Falcons 6 - Horton Griffins 3

The Chester arena welcomed a huge crowd for this legendary match-up. The Falcons were successful on their first power play of the game but could not contain the strong Griffins who lead the scoring in the first 2:1.

The second period found the Falcons short-handed on multiple occasions and eventually down by one more. The Griffins played a disciplined game only logging 3 penalties the entire match and seemed to have control of the game.

The Falcons started the 3rd period with a power play goal as Cole Hayes scored 41 seconds into the period. This marked the first goal for this 9-year veteran goalie who converted to a centre for his graduating year. After that it was all Falcons with another 4 unanswered goals to finish with a 6-3 victory over the visiting Griffins.

Saturday, Nov. 6

Par-en-Bas 7 – Digby 1

On Saturday night the Digby Mariners traveled to the Mariners Centre to play the École Secondaire de Par-en-Bas Sharks in their home opener. In front of a large Shark crowd, the Mariners struck first scoring 5 minutes into the game on a 2 on 1 play. The goal by Daniel Jamieson seemed to spark the Sharks as they scored 2 of their own.

The second period saw 3 different goals by the Sharks, one short-handed, one powerplay and one even strength. The third period saw two more goals by the Sharks to lead their rookie grade 8 goaltender to his first high school hockey win.

Scoring for the Mariners: Daniel Jamieson

Scoring for the Sharks: Blake Newell (3), Caleb d’Entremont (2), Chandler LeBlanc (1) and Dominic Jacquard  (1).

Park View 3 – Horton 2 (SO)

On Saturday night the Horton Griffins hosted the Park View Panthers in what is always a hotly contested match. Horton was in penalty trouble in the first period and Park View would capitalize early. # 5 Chase Crouse would take a shot from the point and it bounced off a defender's foot and ended up in the back of the net. The goal was assisted by # 12 Liam Sylvester. The Griffins continued to battle hard and kill off penalties.

Horton came out firing early in the second period and CJ Zink took a rebound in front of the net, made a nice move in close and put the puck past the Panthers netminder. Assists going to Aidan McEwan and Max Ouellette. The play would go back and forth for the second period and at the end of the period, with 8 seconds left, there was a battle in front of the net and Cohen Sawler was able to put the puck past Owen Lockwood to give Horton the lead going into the third. The goal was assisted by Mac Harnum.

In the third period, the play would go back and forth but Park View was starting to find their legs and scored a goal with 7 minutes left to go in the third period. The game remained tied at the end of the period and went into 3 on 3 OT. Both goalies made some great saves in overtime but one that stands out is a cross-crease one-timer save by Owen Lockwood.

In the shootout, Park View's first shooter would be successful with a perfectly placed shot off the post to score against the always difficult-to-beat Mason Veinotte. The goal scorer was # 3 Jack Barry. Mason Veinotte would make a fantastic glove save on the next shooter and the last shooter for Park View but Owen Lockhood was equal to the task. He made an amazing pad save on Brady Clarke and then an even better desperate paddle save on  CJ Zink to secure the win for Park View.

Avon View 8 - West Kings 0

The Avon View Avalanche continued their solid play in only their second regular season game of the 2021-2022 Valley High School Hockey League as they got the W with a win over the West Kings Wolverines 8-0 before a large crowd of approximately 300 + at the West Hants Sportsplex Saturday evening, Nov 6. The Avalanche are now 2-0 and with their Birthplace of Hockey Tournament coming up Remembrance Day Weekend will not be back in action in League Play until Friday, Nov 19, when they travel to Canning to play the 3-1-0 Northeast Kings Titans.

In Saturday’s game, Camdyn Burgess opened the scoring for the Avalanche with some dynamite stickhandling between two West Kings defenders only 25 seconds into the game and easily put it into the back of the Wolverines net.  It was very quickly 2-0 when Terran Bailie scored the first of his two on the night on a bang-bang play in front of the net.  Brayden Hood made it 3-0 on a slap shot from the point.  The Avalanche outshot West Kings 17-1 in the opening period.

They were unable to come up with any goals, but West Kings came out somewhat refreshed in the second period and slowed the Avalanche down with more stoppages in play and were outshooting the home team 6-2 at one stage.  Despite this, it did not stop the barrage of scoring for the Avalanche as Carter Hood lofted a soft wrist shot from the blue line to put his team up 4-0.

The Avalanches Zack McPhee made it 5-0 as the puck went off his skate and slid across the crease.

Brody Richard then made it 6-0 on a beautiful two-way passing play.

Brayden Hood then made it 7-0 before Terran Bailie scored the Avalanche’s final goal and his second of the night on a backhander his to the right side of the West Kings Goalie.  The 1-3-0 Wolverines swing back into action Friday Nov 12 at home against the 2-2-0 Barrington High Barons.

Yarmouth 8 – Middleton 4

Nov. 6 was the home opener in Middleton. The game started out hard and fast but was soon slowed down by 100 penalty minutes in total: 53 min for Middleton and 47 min for Yarmouth. Four player ejections were enforced as well: 2 for each team.

In between stoppages, scorers from Middleton were Aidan Gallant (assisted by Owen Wagstaff & Hayden denHaan), Morgan Noble unassisted, Mike Hoogerwerf (Morgan Noble assist), Madex denHaan (Aidan Gallant assist).

Scorers from Yarmouth were Ryder Travis (3), Landon Watkins-Bonnar (2), Ben LeBlanc (2), Cameron Brown.

The score rocked back and forth as the game slowly unfolded with the score being 6-4 for Yarmouth with just 3 minutes left in the third but Yarmouth put 2 quick pucks in to end Middleton’s hope, resulting in an 8-4 victory for Yarmouth.

NKEC 12 – Clare 3

The Northeast Kings Titans travelled to Church Point to face Clare Loups for a Saturday evening affair, and scored early and often especially in the 1st period taking a 6-1 lead.  Adam Harris netted a natural hat trick scoring 3 goals in the opening frame for NKEC, as well as 2 goals from Ethan Scott and a single from Mac Sinclair. Replying for les Loups was Nichoals Gaudet.

In the second period the Titans added 4 more goals to their tally with markers from Kitch Brawn, Elliot Pashley, Ethan Scott with his 3rd goal of the night and Will Harris. NKEC took a 10-1 lead after 2 periods of play.

Titans Captain Harrison Seaman and Ethan Scott with his fourth goal of the game added to NKEC's offense in the 3rd period while Nema Hanna & Gaetan Deveau replied for Clare as the Titans won by a final score of 12-3.

Ryan Ogden-Potter got the win in nets for the Titans while Mathieu LeBlanc (& GA) and Cohen Neil (5 GA) shared the duties in the defeat for Clare.

Scorers for the Titans: Ethan Scott 4G, Adam Harris 3G & 1A, Evan Durling 3A, Will Harris 1G &1A, Kitch Brawn 1G & 1A, Elliot Pashley 1G & 1A, Harrison Seaman 1G & 1A, Benson Keddy 2A, Mac Sinclair 1G, Peter MacDougall 1A & Jonny Petrie 1A.

Scorers for Clare: Nicholas Gaudet 1G, Nema Hanna 1G, Gaetan Deveau 1G,  Noah MacLean 1A, Chase Comeau 1A & Ryan Trimper 1A.

Sunday, Nov. 7

Central Kings 10 - Forest Heights 5

The Central Kings Gators and Forest Heights Falcons met up on the ice for a high-scoring game.

First period scoring opened up @15:45 with the Falcons working the puck from the corner out to the point, with a shot from MacKenzie Connors (Connors, from Rafuse, Corkin) to put the Falcons up 1-0.  Central Kings drew even six seconds into a powerplay with Cody Hebb chipping in a puck at the side of the net (Hebb, from Turner, Rogers).  CK’s Connor White then chipped the puck out of the CK end and jumped into a rush with Sam Rogers, with Rogers slipping a pass over to White who buried the shot into the back of the net (White, from Rogers). With Central Kings back on the powerplay, they won the draw in the Falcons end back to the point. Churchill slipped a pass over to Rogers on the point and his shot was redirected into the net by Cody Hebb, (Hebb, from Churchill, Rogers), putting CK up 3-1.  Central Kings entered the Falcons zone with some nice work behind the net by Nathan Langille and worked the puck out front with Rogers finishing the play into the back of the net (Rogers, from Wood, Langille).  Late in the first period, CK won a face off deep in the Falcons end, where Matt Churchill shot from the point and Cody Hebb tapped in his third goal of the period (Hebb, from Rogers, Churchill) making it 5-1 at the end of one. 

Shots at the end of the first period, Gators 13, Falcons 11

The Falcons started the scoring in the second period @15:25 with an odd man rush down the ice with Cohen Perry tapping in a rebound off a shot from Madden Myra (Perry, from Myra).  The Falcons continued to push back in the second period with a powerplay goal @13:01 with a shot from Connors from the point, with Dylan Rafuse chipping in the rebound (Rafuse, from Connors, Hayes) making the score 5-3.  One minute later, Dylan Rafuse picked up a loose puck in the Falcons end, steps over the CK blueline and finishes top corner on Central Kings making it a very close game at 5-4.  Deep in the Falcons’ end, Rogers then won a draw and passed to Hanninen who finished into the back of the net (Hanninen, from Rogers).  Matt Churchill, with nice work along the blueline to keep the puck in, chipped a shot to the net, a shot by Rogers is saved by the Falcons, and Ryan Turner then finished into the back of the net (Turner, from Rogers, Churchill). 

Shots on goal after two periods, Central Kings 26, Forest Heights 18.

The 9:08 mark of the third period, after a puck battle just inside the CK blueline, saw Dylan Rafuse pick up a loose puck and find the back of the net for the Falcons (Rafuse, from Hill) making it 7-5 Central Kings.  Sam Rogers picked up a loose puck inside the CK blueline and split the Falcons defense finishing the play with a backhand upstairs to put CK up by three and make the score 8-5 CK.  Next at 7:21 of the third, CK’s Chase Balsor scored his first goal as a Gator redirecting a shot from the point, (Balsor, from Basquill, Langille).  Scoring in the game was rounded out by Connor Hanninen with his second of the night with a pass from behind the net from Rogers, (Hanninen, from Rogers, Hebb).

Final shot count, Central Kings 39, Forest Heights 23.

Final score: Central Kings 10 – Forest Heights 5

Other weekend game scores:

Barrington 5 – Middleton 2

Central Kings 3 – Yarmouth 2

Digby 7 – Clare 3