Several Estevan minor hockey players had big years in 2013-14, with two of them winning the scoring races in their respective leagues.
Estevan Power Dodge Chargers forward Megan LeBlanc boasted the best numbers of anyone on Estevan's teams this season, as she led the South Saskatchewan Female Hockey League's bantam A division in scoring.
LeBlanc ran away with the scoring title, netting a grand total of 62 goals and 93 points in just 24 games with the Chargers, who finished in first place.
Her totals were so impressive that she finished 31 points ahead of the No. 2 scorer, Jenessa Fournier of the South West Cyclones.
Teammate Makenna Morrison also cracked the top five in the league, finishing with 18 goals and 45 points.
"I definitely couldn't have done it on my own. The whole team was beside me, we all worked together and it paid off. It definitely wasn't just me," LeBlanc said.
"You gotta be focused, you gotta take the game seriously. There's always going to be those kids who don't take it seriously."
After nearly tripling her goal total from the previous season, LeBlanc said it wasn't a goal of hers to put more pucks in the net.
"We ended up working out pretty good together. I would have never expected it. I definitely didn't focus on it. I focused on being an all-around good player," she said.
Meanwhile, the Estevan Apex Bruins midget AA team lays claim to the top two scorers in the South Saskatchewan Minor Hockey League this year.
Kaelan Holt led the circuit in goals (38) and points (67), while linemate Kyle Salaway was second with 64 points, including 27 goals.
Holt and Salaway were put on a line with Dylan Lay in December and the unit proceeded to tear it up.
"They complement each other pretty good," said midget AA Bruins head coach Dalton Giblett. "Salaway has a great set of hands and he's always looking to make a play. Holt, he'll go into a scrum with five kids and a spin-o-rama and the puck's still on his stick. It's crazy how the puck just follows him. He has that knack to finish. Kyle does too.
"At the start of the year when Kyle was shooting, it wasn't with the authority that he fires that puck now. Those two are very confident right now. Holt's all about getting on the loose pucks, and Kyle's all about making the plays."
Lay, who centres the line, finished 14th in league scoring with 43 points.
In the Saskatchewan Bantam AA Hockey League, meanwhile, first-year forward Cole Fonstad led the TS&M Bruins in scoring with 35 goals and 68 points, which put him fourth in the league.
The Estevan Blue Rock Bruins, who play in a Hockey Regina midget league comprised entirely of 15-year-olds, also had a couple of players among the league elite, as J.J. Holma finished second in scoring with 49 points and Peyton Stevenson was fourth with 39.
