In their second week of the SJHL season the Yorkton Terriers showed at the very least they will be an entertaining team to follow. With two back and forth games that came down to the third period, the Terriers extended their record to two wins and one loss. On Friday night the Terriers beat the Humboldt Broncos 5-3, the Terriers went into the third period with a 3-1 lead off of goals from Brenden Poncelet, Zak Majkowski, and Jeremy Johnson before giving up the lead with under five minutes left in the third period after two unanswered goals came in a three minute span. The Terriers answered back as Nathan Murray scored a clutch goal with fifty seconds left before Tyler Giebel added an empty net tally to give the Terriers a 5-3 win, avoiding a third period collapse and securing the two points at home. Kale Thomson had another solid game in net, stopping 34 shots and nullifying the 37-25 shot advantage the Broncos had in the game.
After the win the Terriers headed out on their first road trip of the season with a trip to Wilcox to take on the Notre Dame Hounds. The first period started out scoreless despite Notre Dame taking two hits to the head penalties resulting in two minute minor penalties with the additional ten minute misconduct as per the SJHL's policy on hits to the head. Jeremy Johnson opened up the scoring with a goal assisted by Nathan Murray to continue both players hot starts to the season. Third period woes continued for the Terriers in this game as two unanswered goals to start the third period gave the Hounds the win and handed the Terriers their first loss of the season.
The Terriers next action will be on the road against Weyburn where they will have a rematch of their season opening win over the Red Wings before they head back to Yorkton on Saturday night to face the Nipawin Hawks.
Fatigue may be a factor in the weekend's games as the Terriers have to travel back from Weyburn to Yorkton in a two games in two night stretch so expect coach Trent Cassan to make some personnel moves over the weekend to attempt to keep the players as fresh as possible. The Terriers home contest against Nipawin kicks off at 7:30 p.m. and as always will be held at the Farrell Agencies Arena.
