The annual New Year's tradition of Yorkton and Melville hooking up in a Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League home-and-home set went the Millionaires' way in 2012, winning both contests.
Friday in Melville the host team took period leads of 1-0, and 3-0 before trading third period goals for a 4-1 win.
Only Terrier Jeremy Johnson was able to solve Melville netminder Blake Voth, who faced 46-shots.
The Millionaires had two goals from Tyson Newell, and singles from Michael Sagen, and John Stechyshyn.
Warren Shymko was in the Terrier nets facing 35-shots.
New Year's Day, in a rare afternoon start, started in the same fashion with Melville taking a 1-0 lead after 20-minutes, with Russell Trudeau getting the goal.
The teams traded second period markers Michael Desjarlais for Melville, and Tayler Thompson for Yorkton.
Devon McMullen scored the lone goal of the third period to knot the score at 2-2.
The game would go to overtime, but the five-minute, four-on-four period proved nothing.
The game would be decided by a shoot-out, with a Desjarlais goal being the difference.
Voth was again in net for Melville facing 49-shots in the win.
Shymko faced 26-shots in the Terrier nets.
The difference in the two games was Voth, who allowed only three goals on 94-shots.
"He's a very good goalie. That's why they brought him in," offered McMullen after Sunday's game.
While facing a hot netminder McMullen said the Terriers needed to find a way to get more goals.
"You've got to find ways to score on a hot goalie," he said, adding looking back the team maybe needed to get more traffic to the net to bother Voth and pick up some rebounds, which was how he scored the tieing goal.
Terrier head coach Trent Cassan agreed that more traffic may have helped.
"Obviously we could probably have done a little better job of that," he said.
Still the effort was there from the Terriers.
"I thought we played pretty well, we just didn't get the results we wanted," said McMullen.
Cassan said he couldn't fault the Terrier effort in either game.
"I thought the guys worked hard," he said. "I'm not down on our work ethic."
Looking at the shots Cassan said in spite of being on a barrage offensively, the Terriers did a good job of limiting chances for the Millionaires.
"We didn't give up many shots from tough areas," he said.
McMullen said while they piled up shots, ultimately they managed only one point out of a possible four, and that was disappointing. He said the team needs to get every point it can to ensure they finish in at least second place in the Division to give the team home ice in at least the first round of the playoffs.
The two Melville wins leave the Millionaires and Terriers tied for third in the Sherwood Division with 41-points. The Terriers sport a record of 19-15-1-2.
Weyburn leads the Division with 55-points, with Estevan second with 43.
Notre Dame is fifth with 29-points, while Kindersley has 21 in the basement of the Sherwood.
Teams will be looking to make some trade moves over the next week to solidify position as the Jan. 10, league trade deadline approaches.
Cassan said the Terriers have two cards open so will be testing the trade waters. He said he and general manager Don Chesney have been talking about what they would like to do.
"We still feel there's a couple of things we could upgrade," he said, adding every team is going to be thinking the same thing.
Asked what he would choose first if he could make just one deal, Cassan pointed to the blueline.
"Probably another experienced defenceman," he said, adding "our 'D' has played very well."
That said Cassan noted the Terrier defence has a lot of young players taking on major minutes and key roles. While that will be good in terms of development a veteran addition would "take a bit of the pressure off those (young) guys."
Cassan said that just because they seek a deal doesn't mean one will get done.
"You need two teams to trade," he said, adding deals do not come easy.
While a deal would be welcome, Cassan said he likes the make-up of the team as it is now, and feels they are competitive right now.
Up next
The Terriers are on the road for the week. They head to Melfort for action tonight (Wednesday), and then play in Humboldt Friday, and Kindersley Saturday.
