The Yorkton Terriers have dropped game one of their series against Nipawin
Friday evening the teams played through a scoreless first period at Centennial Arena, home of the Hawks, the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League’s top team through the regular season.
In the second frame Jake Tremblay broke the stalemate at 13:03 to give the host Hawks a 1-0 lead.
Then, with seven seconds left in the second Walker Cote made it 2-0 with a powerplay goal.
The third was also a defensive affair with the only goal of the frame by Hawk Arik Breton who scored into an empty net as the Terriers pulled starting netminder Ryan Ouellette in favour of an additional skater to find a way to get back into the game.
However, Nipawin netminder held Terrier shooters off the scoresheet turning away all 22-shots he faced to record the shut-out.
Ouellette was tagged with the loss facing 32 shots, and stopping 30.
Game two of the series is scheduled to be played tonight, (Saturday, March 16), in Nipawin.
In other SJHL playoff action Humboldt defeated Estevan 4-1, Melfort won 2-1 over Kindersley, and Battlefords defeated Flin Flon 3-0. Game two in each of these series are today as well.
