The Meadow Lake Stampeders and St. Walburg Eagles have advanced to the North Saskatchewan River Hockey League finals.
The date of the opening game of the series has yet to be posted.
The playoffs began with the Maidstone Jets and Paradise Hill Hawks facing off in the opening round best-of-three survivor series.
The Jets won the opening game 5-4, but dropped games two and three by 11-5 and 11-0 scores to see themselves eliminated.
Logan Harland scored an astonishing 10 goals while adding four assists in the two victories for the Hawks.
The Edam 3 Stars and St. Walburg Eagles faced off in the second round, a best-of-five series which saw the Eagles sweep the 3 Stars after a long break between games.
Game one was played on Feb. 6, a 5-2 Eagles win, but game two wasn’t played until Feb. 17.
The Eagles won that game 6-3, and followed that up with a 7-1 win the next day in game three to advance to the finals.
Cole Fern and Brady Zerr each scored eight points in the series.
The other second round series saw the Hawks taking on the regular seasons top team, the Stampeders.
It was the Stampeders jumping out to a series lead with a 6-3 win in game one on Feb. 14 thanks to three-point performances from Logan Pethick and Cullen Morin.
Jamie Jeanotte had a goal and an assist in the losing effort.
Game two saw the Hawks rebound in a big way picking up an 8-2 win.
Harland scored a hat trick and Jeannote scored once while adding two assists in the bounce back win.
Game three Saturday had the Stampeders winning 5-3 to take a 2-1 series lead.
Jorden Iron scored and added an assist while Meadow Lake also got goals from Pethick, Bryce Neufeld, Calvin Fiddler and Jarret Aschenbrenner in the win.
Harland continued his torrid playoff scoring with a goal and an assist.
Sixty minutes wasn’t enough to solve the series in game four as the teams headed to overtime tied at five.
It took two extra periods until the Stampeders were able to solve the Hawks goaltender in the second overtime frame to advance to the finals with a 6-5 win.
