News for Sarnia Church Hockey League

Misconducts & Suspensions

Posted Mon Nov 06, 2017 - 10:33 PM

We had an incident in the game on October 27th between the Flyers and Ice Dogs. Matt Kreeft and Devon DeBoer were both given a "major" penalty for fighting and were ejected from the game. They have been suspended for two games each.

Since the Flyers are sitting out on November 10th, Matt Kreeft will not be eligible to return to play until December 1st.
Devon DeBoer will be eligible to return to play again on November 24th.

Season Starts in Mooretown on Friday, September 29th

Posted Wed Sep 27, 2017 - 09:51 PM

Hello Everyone! Welcome to the start of the 2017-18 season.

We will start our season on Friday, September 29th in Mooretown.
I received a call from the Point Edward Arena staff. They were having trouble putting in the ice and told me that the arena would not be ready for us to use for the 29th. The schedule was already made and I did not want to mess everyone up by having to re-do the whole thing, so I was able to rent the ice at the Mooretown Sports Complex for the games on the 29th instead. Sorry if this messes anyone up, but please understand that this was the best solution that I had on short notice.

To make it clear for everyone, here is the schedule for the games on Friday, September 29, 2017:

9:00pm @ Mooretown Sports Complex (Rink 2) - Albinos vs. Ice Dogs
10:00pm @ Mooretown Sports Complex (Rink 1) - Omegas vs. Cattle Barons
10:15pm @ Mooretown Sports Complex (Rink 2) - Flyers vs. Stars

If anyone does not know where the Mooretown Arena is, or if you need directions, you can find it under the "Rink Locations" section of this website.

We will back in the Point Edward Arena starting on Friday (October 6th). The Point Edward Arena staff have assured me that the arena will be ready for us to use by that time.

Finals - Game 2

Posted Fri Mar 24, 2017 - 06:42 PM

Well folks - In case you haven't already heard - she's all over. Congratulations goes out to the Hawks who are the 2016-17 League Champions! They swept the finals series against the top seeded Omegas.

Since I dubbed Game 1 of this series as "a great playoff hockey game", then I would have to say that Game 2 should be considered as "a classic playoff hockey game".

The Omegas came flying out the gates in Game 2, and held a 2-0 lead after the first period on goals by Karsten Berg & Luke VanReenen.
Mid-way through the second period, Dave Vanoostveen scored for the Hawks to cut the lead in half. However, this thrill was short lived, because one minute later Luke VanReenen scored his second tally of the game to extend the Omegas' lead to 3-1.
The score stayed this way until the mid-point of the third period. That's when Calvin Pelleboer scored for the Hawks to make the score 3-2 in favour of the Omegas. Three minutes later, the Hawks completed the comeback with a beauty short-handed goal by Dave Vanoostveen.
At this point, the goalies put on a clinic. One "old-school" save by Kyle Scott (filling in as the Omegas' goalie) was probably one of the best big-moment saves that I've seen in a while.
Fittingly, this game went to a sudden-death 10 minute overtime, where each team had chances, but were not able to finish it off. This meant that we needed to solve the game in a best-of-five shoot-out.

The Hawks were the "home team" for this particular game, and they chose to shoot second in the shootout. Here is how the shoot-out transpired:
Round 1: The goaltenders stood tall and made saves on both teams' first shooters.
Round 2: The Omegas took the lead in the second round with a goal by Karsten Berg.
Round 3: The Hawks tied it up again with a goal by Derek Barneveld.
Round 4: Dan Feenstra scored for the Hawks to take a 2-1 lead in the shootout.
Round 5: Mike Ward made the save on the Omegas' fifth shooter to clinch the win, the series, and the Championship.

Like I said earlier - A CLASSIC!

Finals - Game 1

Posted Sat Mar 18, 2017 - 06:46 PM

Game 1 of the Finals series between the Omegas & Hawks was a great playoff hockey game. The teams went scoreless in the first period. Kyle Huizinga was the first one to put the puck in the net, giving the Hawks a 1-0 lead early in the second period. Six minutes later Karsten Berg tied it up by scoring for the Omegas. With 4:24 to go in the second period, Dave Vanoostveen scored to give the Hawks the lead again.
When Clint Schenk scored with 12:45 to go in the third, things weren't looking too promising for the Omegas in this tight game. However, with 9:03 to go in the third, Karsten scored again for the Omegas to bring the score to 3-2 in favour of the Hawks.
The rest of the game saw the Omegas pouring it on to score the tying goal, but the Hawks wouldn't have it and they scored an empty-netter to seal the deal.

Game 2 is tonight (Saturday, March 18th at 8:30pm at the Clearwater Arena.
Will the Hawks be able to sweep the mighty Omegas and take home the Championship Trophy tonight? Or will the Omegas come back with a win to extent the series to a third game?
Come on out tonight to find out!

Semi-Finals - Game 2

Posted Sat Mar 18, 2017 - 06:35 PM

Game 2 of the Hawks-Flyers series was almost as close as Game 1. In this one, the Flyers struck first and held a 1-0 lead going into the second period. The Hawks scored early in the second period to tie it up, and added another goal late in the period to hold a 2-1 lead going into the third. The score stayed 2-1 until late in the third period, when the Hawks sealed the deal with two quick goals.
With this win, the Hawks will play in the finals.

Game 2 of the Omegas-Albinos series was much closer than it was in Game 1. The Albinos held a 2-0 lead early in the second period, but the Omegas came back shortly after by scoring three times within five minutes. The score stayed at 3-2 in favour of the Omegas until half-way through the third period. When the Omegas scored again with nine minutes to go in the third, it kind've felt like that might be it for the Albinos. That feeling was wrong, because the stormed back with two quick goals in the last 2.5 minutes of the period, tying it up at 4-4.
Fittingly, the game went to overtime. After four minutes of exciting end-to-end overtime hockey was played, the Omegas eventually scored the game winner to take the series and earn a spot against the Hawks in the Finals.

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