This week's early game saw the Stars win their first game this season, which was only their second win in the past two seasons. They beat the Cattle Barons 4-1.
After a score-less first period, the Stars scored three straight goals in the second period. The Cattle Barons scored their lone goal of the game late in the period to make the score 3-1. The third period was quiet until the Stars sealed the victory with an empty netter.
We'll give the Player of the Game to Brandon (Chooch) Wilpstra, who was a force for the Stars.

The Hawks continue to hold on to first place in the league with a 3-2 win over the IceDogs in the middle game.
The Hawks had a 2-0 lead after the first period, and the score stayed there until the third period. The teams traded goals in the third, but the Hawks held on for another narrow victory.
We'll let the two goaltenders in this one share the Player of the Game. Mike Ward & Josh Tamminga both gave their teams the chance to win it.

The late game between the Flyers & Omegas saw the Omegas win 7-6 in overtime.
The Flyers led for much of the game. They were up 3-1 after the first period, and 3-2 after two. The third period is where it opened up.
The Omegas scored two quick goals early in the third period to go up 4-3. Then the Flyers countered with two quick goals of their own to re-take the lead at 5-4. The Omegas tied it up briefly at 5-5 before the Flyers once again took the lead with another goal. The game got a little intense and the Omegas put on some major pressure with their goalie pulled. It proved successful with Freddie VanReenen scoring his fourth goal of the game to tie it up again in the last minute of the third.
The Omegas took this momentum into overtime, and Ian VanReenen scored to win it.
Matt VanMarum led the scoring for the Flyers. He scored three goals and added an assist.
As mentioned above, Fred VanReenen Jr. scored four goals in the game (including the last minute tying goal), and is the choice for the Player of the Game.

I'm getting to this update rather late, so you will have to excuse the fact that it is a little bit condensed compared to normal.

All three games this week were again very close ones. I'm gonna go the easy route and name all six goaltenders as the co-winners of the Player of the Week. Way to go, Case Zylstra, Josh Tamminga, Risser Wierenga, Rick Jones, Mike Ward, & Steve Pastoor! All of you were stellar in net for your respective teams.

The IceDogs are on a bit of a roll now, winning their second game in a row, with a 4-3 win over the Omegas in the early game. Al Vanderveen of the IceDogs scored his first goal in our League in his first game in the league.

The Stars once again fell short in another close game. They lost 5-2 to the Flyers in the middle game.

The late game between the Cattle Barons & Hawks was an extremely tight game. The Hawks squeaked out a narrow 2-1 win.

It's hard to believe that we have already gone through one round of the regular season. Most of the games this season have been real close games. Of the 15 games played so far this season, 11 have been within three goals. Nine of these games have been within two goals, and most of those nine games would've been within a goal, if not for empty netters. We've already had three games go to overtime.
It seems that the trend is continuing this season, that each team has the chance to win any game. You never know.

This week's early game I dubbed as the "Fall Classic". The colours of the Flyers & Cattle Barons' team jerseys combined give off a real "fall" theme. (Hey, I like to entertain myself). Anyways - the "Fall Classic" did not disappoint. This may have been the best game so far this season. Both teams were going hard and getting lots of chances. If not for great goaltending on both sides, the score would've been much higher. The Flyers came away with a 4-2 win.
Paul Rutlage, of the Cattle Barons, scored his first goal in our League.
Both goaltenders, Rick Jones & Steve Pastoor will share the Player of the Game honours in this one.

The middle game saw the Hawks lose their first game of the season. The Omegas beat them 8-2.
Curtis Tamming, of the Omegas, scored his first goal in our League & added an assist. Jared Millberry scored twice for the Omegas, but we'll give the nod for the Player of the Game, once again, to Lance Ross, who scored three goals & two assists for the Omegas.

The IceDogs got their first win of the season by beating the Stars 6-3 in the late game.
The Stars got their chances in this one, but Josh Tamminga was big in net for the IceDogs. He made the big saves when his team needed him to. For this, he earns the Player of the Game.
Brandon Wilpstra scored twice for the Stars, while Curt Moesker assisted on all three of the Stars' goals. Duncan Vanderwal & Matt DeBoer both had a good game for the IceDogs. Each had two goals and an assist.

We have reached the deadline of November 1 and the following players were approved to start playing tonight:

Cattle Barons: Ben Melville - attends Forest Baptist Church

Stars: Jeff Sit - attends Bethel Pentecostal Church in Sarnia

IceDogs: Phil Nywening - attends Dresden CRC; Chad Barneveld - attends Second CRC in Sarnia; Al Vanderveen - attends the Canadian Reformed Church in Chatham

The early game between the IceDogs & Flyers saw the IceDogs head to overtime for the third time in four games this season. The game ended in a 6-6 tie.
The first period was rather quiet, with the Flyers scoring one goal. The second period got a little more eventful. With five goals scored within ten minutes, the IceDogs were up 4-2 going into the third.
The Flyers kept it close, but were still down 6-5 with a couple of minutes to go in the third. They pulled the goalie and got the game tying goal by Matt Kreeft with 1:29 to go.
Kev Karelsen had another three point game for the Flyers. Joe DeBoer did likewise for the IceDogs. Matt DeBoer & Matt Tamminga will share the Player of the Game honours for this one. They each had two goals & an assist for the IceDogs.

Even though the middle game between the Hawks & Stars went right down to the wire, both teams continued their streaks. The Hawks won the game 9-7 and are now 4 & 0 for the season. This loss puts the Stars at 0 & 4.
The Stars got off to a good start and held a 5-2 lead at the half-way point of the second period. You can never count out the Hawks, and the Stars learned this quickly. By the 10 minute mark of the third, the Hawks had scored five consecutive goals to go up 7-5. The Stars made a late game surge, but an empty netter by the Hawks ended it.
The duo of Chris Helps & Jason Hotke once again led the scoring for the Stars. Chris had three points, while Jason tallied four points. The Player of the Game will be shared between the Hawks' duo of Kyle Huizinga & Dave VanOostveen. Each of these guys had five points in the game. Dave had two goals & three assists, while Kyle had three goals & two assists.

The late game between the Omegas & Cattle Barons ended in a 5-3 win for the Omegas. Believe it or not - this was the second lowest total goals scored (8) in a game so far this season. Up to this point, this has not been a very "goaltender friendly" season.
Both teams each scored one goal in the first period, but the Omegas scored four consecutive goals & were up 5-1 early in the third period.
The Cattle Barons mustered a bit of a comeback in the third period, but were not able to come any closer than 5-3.
Billy Sipkens scored twice for the Cattle Barons. We'll give the Player of the Game to Omegas' goaltender, Case Zylstra, who kept it a low scoring game.