Thunder Talk: Febuary 16th

This weekend was what it was. We needed to pick up the four points over the Chiefs to continue to have an opportunity to pass the Saskatoon Royals for 2nd place in the North and gain home ice for the first round of playoffs. Going into the weekend with quite a few key players on the shelf with injuries, I knew it would be interesting to see how the remaining players would react to the increases in ice time. The line of Kendrew Friesen, Brett Derkach and Jody Blais were dominant to say the least, in combining for 15 points over the 2 games. Kale Hidlebaugh also chipped in with his first PJHL goal on the power play on Sunday Afternoon.

The injury list seems to be getting longer with Tyler Bouey, Joel Basson, Beau Purves and Mike Cross all on the sidelines this weekend. Lain Ralph missed Sundays game with discomfort with his collarbone from Saturday and Riley Hengen had to leave Sundays game after re aggravating his knee injury from earlier this month. All totaled we had 172 combined points and 5 of our Top 10 scorers sitting in the stands on Sunday. None of these players are expected back in the lineup for Tuesday nights game in Arborfield against PA.

Keep Your Stick On The Ice
Coach Kingwell