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.

Brett DeBoer & Joe DeBoer both had three minor penalties & were ejected from the IceDogs' game against the Cattle Barons. This is the first time that either of these guys has been ejected from a game this season for receiving three minor penalties, so they are both okay to play in the next game.

The Omegas got their first win of the season by beating the Stars 10-8 in the early game.
The Stars got off to a good start, thanks in large part to Tyler Poort, who scored a hat-trick in the first period. The Stars held a 4-2 lead after the first, but the Omegas came back in a big way in the second period. Jared Millberry led the Omega's in the second period by scoring a hat-trick of his own and gave the Omegas a 7-6 lead by the end of the period.
Both teams battled it out evenly through the third period until Lance Ross scored his third goal of the game into the empty net in the dying seconds of the game.
With such a high scoring game, there was a lot of guys who got a bunch of points. Brandon Wilpstra, Steve Zylstra, & Jeff VanderSlagt each got three points. Jason Hotke had four points for the Stars, while Chris Helps & Lance Ross each had five points. We'll give the nod for the Player of the Game to Jared Millberry & Tyler Poort, who each ended up scoring four goals for each of their teams.

The middle game between the IceDogs & Cattle Barons saw the Cattle Barons come away with a 8-7 overtime victory.
This was another back-and-forth type of a game. The IceDogs led 4-2 after the first period, but the Cattle Barons came back in the second period and held a 6-4 lead at the end of it. When all was said and done at the end of the third period, overtime was needed. The Cattle Barons put on a lot of pressure during a power-play that they had going into overtime. Just after the penalty expired, the Billy Sipkens snuck in the game winner for the Cattle Barons.
Matt Tamminga & Trevor Benjamins each had three points in the game, but the Player of the Game honours will be shared between O.J. Deelstra & Billy Sipkens, both of the Cattle Barons. Each of these guys ended the game with five points.

When the Flyers came out of the dressing room for the late game, they dazzled the crowd with their fancy new threads. However, it wasn't enough to dazzle the Hawks, who remain undefeated by beating the Flyers 7-5.
This was a battle between the two teams that had won both of their first two games of the season. It was another even game all the way through.
The Hawks held a slim lead throughout the game until the Flyers tied it up at 5-5 early in the third period. When Dave VanOostveen scored his third goal of the game into the empty net, he sealed the victory for the Hawks.
Dan Feenstra & Kev Karelsen will share the Player of the Game honours.

The Hawks continued to build off of last season's championship by beating the IceDogs 4-2 in the early game.
After going down 2-0 by the end of the first period, the IceDogs came back to tie it up early in the third period at 2-2. The Hawks shut the door at this point and after scoring a couple more goals, came away with the win.
Aaron Boelens, of the Hawks, had three assists and earns the Player of the Game.

The Flyers definitely have the fire power so far this season. They showed this again in this week's middle game with a 10-3 win over the Omegas.
For the first half of the game, it looked like it was all Omegas. They had a 3-0 lead by the end of the first period and held that lead until half-way through the second period. That's when the Flyers took over. By the end of the period, the Flyers came back to tie the game at 3-3. Then they totally blew the doors off the game by scoring seven more goals in the third period.
Derek Bouma & Tyler Veenendaal each scored twice for the Flyers, while Tyler added an assist as well. We'll give Kev Karelsen the nod for Player of the Game in this one. He had four points in the game with two goals & two assists.

The Cattle Barons doubled up on the Stars in the late game with a 6-3 win. Chris Helps scored twice in the the Stars' loss. OJ Deelstra also scored twice for the Cattle Barons. Jeff Vanderdeen scored three goals for the Cattle Barons. Jeff will share the Player of the Game honours with Cattle Barons goaltender, Steve Pastoor, who always seems to step it up a notch against the Stars.