If you have been waiting for Junior hockey to start the wait if officially over. With the first month of September upon us the SJHL preseason is officially underway and the Yorkton Terriers open their 2012/13 SJHL title defence with the start of their preseason schedule with a midweek road trip to play the Manitoba Junior Hockey League's Waywayseecapo Wolverines before opening the Farrell Agencies Arena's hockey calendar on Friday night against the MJHL's Swan Valley Stampeders.
The Terriers hosted their fall camp over the Labour Day weekend, but their annual Orange-Black Intrasquad game was sadly cancelled due to Monday's power outage on Broadway creating poor ice conditions. The lack of an Orange-Black game will make the Terriers game against the Wolverines the first hard look head coach Trent Cassan will have of his Terriers outside of training camp as the defending league champions take to the ice with many new hopefuls looking to be apart of a team that will be expecting to win.
Yorkton will also host two more exhibition games after Friday's home opener, playing the Melville Millionaires and the Wolverines at the Farrell Agencies Arena as part of a six game preseason calendar before the puck is dropped on the 2013/14 SJHL season late this month. Trent Cassan will also be without the services of several 2012/13 Terriers as they attempt to make WHL rosters during the Western league's preseason. The most notable of those players being goaltender Dawson MacAuley who has a solid shot at cracking the Regina Pats roster after the team acquired his rights from the Calgary Hitmen during the 2013 WHL Bantam Draft. Cassan will likely be exploring other options in goal behind Yorkton product Kale Thomson as a contingency plan over the course of September.
The complete SJHL preseason schedule is as follows (home teams on the right)
Sept 5 2013 Battelford Northstars vs Augustana Vikings
Sept 5 2013 Nipawin Hawks vs Swan Valley
Sept 6 2013 Melfort Mustangs vs LaRonge Ice Wolves
Sept 6 2013 Flin Flon Bombers vs OCN
Sept 6 2013 Swan Valley vs Yorkton Terriers 7:30p.m.
Sept 7 2013 Battleford Northstars vs Kindersley Klippers 7:30 p.m.
Sept 7 2013 Swan Valley vs Nipawin Hawks 7:30 p.m.
Sept 7 2013 LaRonge Ice Wolves vs Melfort Mustangs
Sept 9 2013 Estevan Bruins vs Notre Dame Hounds 7:30 p.m.
Sept 9 2013 Yorkton Terriers vs Melville Millionaires 7:30 p.m.
Sept 10 2013 Nipawin Hawks vs Flin Flon
Sept 10 2013 Regina Cougars CIS vs Weyburn Redwings 7:30 p.m.
Sept 10 2013 Melfort Mustangs vs Humboldt Broncos 7:00p.m.
Sept 10 2013 Melville Millionaires vs Yorkton Terriers 7:30p.m.
Sept 11 2013 Augustan Vikings vs Battleford Northstars 7:30 p.m.
Sept 11 2013 Minot vs Estevan Bruins 7:30 p.m.
Sept 11 2013 Flin Flon Bombers vs Swan Valley
Sept 11 2013 Humboldt Broncos vs Melville Millionaires 7:30 p.m.
Sept 11 2013 Weyburn Redwings vs Notre Dame Hounds
Sept 11 2013 WayWay vs Yorkton Terriers 7:30p.m.
Seot 12 2013 LaRonge Ice Wolves vs Flin Flon Bombers
Sept 13 2013 Battleford Northstars vs Dauphin Kings 7:30 p.m.
Sept 13 2013 Estevan Bruins vs Weyburn Redwings 7:30 p.m.
Sept 13 2013 Humboldt Broncos vs Nipawin Hawks7:30 p.m.
Sept 13 2013 Kindersley Klippers vs Melfort Mustangs7:30 p.m.
Sept 13 2013 Notre Dame Hounds vs Melville Millionaires 7:30 p.m.
Sept 13 2013 Estevan Bruins vs Weyburn Redwings 7:30 p.m.
Sept 13 2013 OCN vs Flin Flon Bombers
Sept 13 2013 Yorkton Terriers vs Swan Valley 6:30p.m.
Sept 14 2013 Battleford Northstars vs. Dauphin Kings 3:00 p.m.
Sept 14 2013 Melfort Mustangs vs Kindersley Klippers 7:30 p.m.
Sept 14 2013 Nipawin Hawks vs Humboldt Broncos
Sept 15 2013 Weyburn Redwings vs Estevan Bruins 6:00 p.m.
Sept 16 2013 Notre Dame Hounds vs Weyburn Redwings7:00 p.m
Sept 16 2013 Melville Millionaires vs Humboldt Broncos 7:00p.m.
