The official kickoff at home for Gold Wings regular season was October 10 and 11, as well as a kickoff for the 2016 Esso Cup. The Gold Wings are proud to announce they had approximately 90 people sign up to help volunteer for the week of the Esso Cup — April 17-23, 2016. The Esso Cup Committee was also ecstatic to have sold over 90 week long passes to the Esso Cup. The Gold Wings are thrilled with the community support and participation. The players also hit the streets of Weyburn this month to put up Esso Cup posters in local businesses as well as to hand out complimentary tickets to attend any home game. We encourage any businesses that would like to display a poster in their business to contact any Gold Wing player or contact us on our website. We would be able to deliver a poster and complimentary ticket to your business.
The Saskatoon Stars and reigning 2014/15 league champs made the trek to Weyburn for the back to back match on October 10 and October 11. Saskatoon is a fast team with speed and skill who challenged the team over the weekend. Chantal Burke minded the net over the course of the weekend and held her own between the posts. On the offensive end we could not buy a goal with Saskatoon shutting us out 2-0 on October 10.
On October 11, we once again prepared to take on the Stars but were defeated 3-0. During the October 10 game it was good to see the Jr. Gold Wings came out to support and play some games at intermission. It’s always fun to see kids get into the sport! Recently we have been having some issues with injuries but thankfully everyone is starting to heal back up.
We participated in our first Minor Hockey “Gold Wings give back” program. Here we assisted Mike Rooney and his staff in leading minor hockey players through various drills and scrimmages. An enjoyable time was had by all and was great to work with the younger players.
We played the Notre Dame Hounds on October 21. This should be a good game. The Hounds always come prepared to challenge us. On Wednesday October 28 at 7:30 p.m. the Regina Rebels will be in town for a match. This will be our first encounter with the Rebels in regular season.
This coming up weekend the team is looking forward to helping out with Communithon as well as doing a little performance; don’t forget to donate! We have been working hard perfecting our dance and singing skills to woo the community with our Communithon spirit as well as provide a little entertainment to put a smile on your face. We will also be helping out the Communithon committee by donating some of our time to help out by being runners, receipt writers and camera operators at the Communithon today, October 23 and Saturday, October 24.
This week we also received great news that the Gold Wings have signed a new player to our roster. Maeve McGauley from Wilcox will join our roster as #11. Maeve has past experience playing with the Notre Dame AAA as well as Notre Dame JWHL programs. She is also a member of Team Sask. Maeve moved to Weyburn and began practicing with us this week and we know she will be a great contributing member of our team in games to come as well as a great team mate to add to our roster.
Overall I would say October is proving to be a busy month and we are all ecstatic for the season ahead of us as we have a great group of girls and staff with us.
