Goalie Aston Cutten of the Brookfield Elks had to be at the top of his game Monday night in Sackville as the Elks and Blazers opened their 2021-22 Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League Season.  Cutten stopped 45 of 50 shots fired at him but special teams play by the Blazers and lack of offensive punch from the Elks gave the Blazers a 5-2 win.

It was a wild finish Sunday afternoon at the Dan K. Stevens Memorial Arena in Eskasoni.  The hometown Jr. Eagles and Liverpool Privateers were locked in a 3-3 draw with only 3:05 left in regulation time when Daniel Kline put the Privateers ahead 4-3.  It took another goal 59 seconds later from Kayden Nickerson, his second of the afternoon which proved to be the game winner.  The Jr. Eagles Thomas Simon then scored his second of the afternoon 18 seconds later to make the game a one-goal affair at 5-4 but the Jr. Eagles were unable to tie the game as Kline with his second of the afternoon and 5th goal of the weekend put one into an empty net to give Liverpool a 6-4 win.  Kline besides his 2 goals also added an assist giving him 7 points in two games during the Privateers road trip into Cape Breton.  Alec Howie also scored once and added a pair of assists while Matt Ormon scored once for the Privateers.

Bilodeau turns away 28 shots for Shut-Out

The Liverpool Privateers and the Membertou Jr. Miners will not have to wait long to play their second game of the season against each other and it should be a dandy after both teams opened their 2021-2022 Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League Season in Membertou Saturday night with the Privateers winning 4-0.

Next Saturday's Oct 9 game will be at the Emera Centre in Queens County at 5:00 p.m.

Eric Bilodeau recorded the shut-out for Liverpool turning away all 28 shots he faced while Daniel Kline was in the right spot at the right time, all the time as he scored 3 times and added an assist.  Kline's first two goals came with less than four minutes remaining in the opening period.  There was no scoring in the second but Kline set-up Alec Howie for Liverpool's third goal with 5:07 having elapsed in the third period.  Kline concluded his hat-trick performance with Liverpool's final goal coming with under seven minutes to play in the contest.

The Privateers will conclude their weekend opening trip to Cape Breton Sunday afternoon when they take on the Eskasoni Jr. Eagles at the Dan K. Stevens arena.

Bilodeau turns away 28 shots for Shut-Out

The Liverpool Privateers and the Membertou Jr. Miners will not have to wait long to play their second game of the season against each other and it should be a dandy after both teams opened their 2021-2022 Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League Season in Membertou Saturday night with the Privateers winning 4-0.

Next Saturday's Oct 9 game will be at the Emera Centre in Queens County at 7:00 p.m.

Eric Bilodeau recorded the shut-out for Liverpool turning away all 28 shots he faced while Daniel Kline was in the right spot at the right time, all the time as he scored 3 times and added an assist.  Kline's first two goals came with less than four minutes remaining in the opening period.  There was no scoring in the second but Kline set-up Alec Howie for Liverpool's third goal with 5:07 having elapsed in the third period.  Kline concluded his hat-trick performance with Liverpool's final goal coming with under seven minutes to play in the contest.

The Privateers will conclude their weekend opening trip to Cape Breton Sunday afternoon when they take on the Eskasoni Jr. Eagles at the Dan K. Stevens arena.

Pictou 5   Antigonish AA Munro Bulldogs 2

The Antigonish AA Munro Jr. Bulldogs came out of Friday's home opener of the 2021-2022 Nova Scotia Junor Hockey League staring at something in the standings, thye are not used to seeing in recen years.  What they saw was a 1 under the L column meaning a loss which they did in losing to the Pictou County Scotians 5-2 Friday night in Antigonish.

Tanner Kay put the Jr. Bulldogs up 2-0 after twenty minutes with his first goal just 1:41 into the game and his second with only 2:15 left in the opening period.  It was the only scoring the Bulldogs would do for the remainder of the game as the Scotians came back with a goal in the second and four unanswered goals in the third ans final period.

Connor Aucoin scored once and assisted on three other Pictou Goals with single markers going to Nathan Peters, Matt Carson with a pair including an empty net goal with 26 seconds remaining in the contest.  The other Scotians goal wqs netted by Luke Young

East Hants 6  Valley Maple Leafs 3

With newly-elected Hants West MLA Melissa Sheehy-Richard dropping the puck for the ceremonial face-off and in her opening remarks, reminding fans in Windsor, this was the 54th year since Junior B Hockey began in Nova Scotia, the Leafs and East Hants Penguins squared off and with the exception of a couple of stretches by the Penguins to open the game up, it was essentially a lacklustre affair with the Penguins winning 6-3.  East Hants started strong out-shooting the Leafs 26-13 and taking a 3-1 first period lead.  The Leafs struggled defensively leaving Penguins alone in front of the net but in saying this, Leafs Goalie Aiden Durnford made the highlight reel save of the night less than three minutes into the game with the Pens Logan Cutler parked to the left side of the net and Durnford robbing Cutler blind.

Durnford blocked 50 of the 56 shots he faced but it was only about 30 seconds after his spectacular save that Cole Stewart took a pass direectly in front of the net and dumped it behind Durnford.

The Pens then began to dominate play for the next 7-8 minutes and went up 2-0 only 4:10 later when Evan McHenry had sole position of the puck coming in on Durnford and it was 2-0 Pens.  Griffin Radford on a soft shot brought the Leafs back to within 1 before Evan Wheeler, once again with lots f time controlling the puck scored with 8 seconds left to put the Pens back up by 2 at 3-1 after twenty minutes.  Both teams exchnaged a pair of goals in the middle period with the Leafs showing considerably more attention.  Robbie McDowell and Bruen Fisher scored goals after Andrew McCarron had the brought the Leafs back to within a goal at 3-2.  Witht he score 5-2, Chris Brown tallied for the Leafs with 2:19 left in the second and East Hants went to the dressing room up 5-3.

Evan McHenry scored his second of the night late in the third period to make the final 6-3.