Wolverines Sweep Dawson Creek

An interesting weekend for the Whitecourt Wolverines as they were looking for 5 straight wins and 4 straight wins when encountering Dawson Creek.

Arrived on Saturday Night in DC.... First I think that teenage series was full of crap as James Van Der Beek and Katie Holmes were no where in sight but I think Katie Holmes saw the Wolverines bus off in the distance and saw the look of death in Dion LeBlue's eyes when he is in game mode... scary.

The Saturday Night game was what I expected the Wolverines to do a 9-1 thrashing of the Canucks Ryan Whelen punched in 4 point included the Phantom Goal, Wheels quoted by saying it was the easiest of his career. A face-off in the offensive zone was won by the Canucks but a bounce off the boards hits the paddle of goaltender Tyler Doucet and trickled in, a lot of line shuffling was done by Richard Kazada going into this weekend as the December 1st cut down day saw many faces leave the organization. We'll get to that much later.

Brandon Bodanek saw a lot of ice time as he was with Riley Helleckson and Mitch Rose all weekend played very well, Rose and Helly have been great, The Status of Nick Bourgeois is a wait and see by the day as work commitments have held him back from quite a few games Bodanek can be that short term fix, Kirk Rueker notch a goal and an assist Saturday it was the youngsters getting a chance to shine against the Junior Canucks, the negative from this game was the fact that the boys couldn't give Carlen Lyle a shutout this weekend giving up a powper play goal late in the 3rd from Derek Freeman and you saw the frustration from everyone that really put a damper on the end of the game.

Off to what I predicted a 6-1 game on Sunday.... Sure didn't look that way for 40 minutes, a note going into this game Branden Kunz was suspended for fighting late in the 3rd period but he did come to the aid of Carlen Lyle who did come out of his net and was hit by Stuart Weaver, was pretty gutless on his part in a 9-1 game but maybe Carlen shouldn't have come out to play it, it's a hindsight 20/20 judgement call I'm not gonna get involved with this.

Onto Sunday's tilt, sloppy, sloppy turnovers in the Wolveriens own zone lead to quality chances for the Canucks but the play of Braeden Johnson was stellar, he did give me the gear for not giving him a start but he did get a honorable mention... I forgot to tell him that.

It was scoreless after one and not gonna lie it was a snoozer for me, didn't help i couldn't sleep till 2 in the morning the night before. But it was Ryan Whelen who has come into form with a great slap shot from the right circle to bottle it an make 1-0 Wolverines, but Brody Brewster would bounce back with a great individual effort to sneak one past Johnson late int he second to have a 1-1 tie into the third. Again TURNOVERS were the problem for Whitecourt, maybe showing some fatigue from the night before. But the third would be the rude awakening Whitecourt needed as Eaglesham's Brandon Bodanek would score the winner at 5:58 on a great feed from Riley Helleckson and an even better celebration, then the top line would take over as Riley would take a great no look feed, under three minutes later as you could see that play develop from a mile away and it was pretty!

Connor Tetlock would notch one late and that would make the final 4-1 for the Wolverines, the crew are now 16-5-0-1 and 2nd in the NWJHL standings going into this weekend's tilt with the Sexsmith Vipers.

Before we cue that up.... Kai Ohs, Mark Smith, Trevor Daynes, Nathan Hannah and Chad Mcleod-Borg were released on the December 1st cutoff day.... 17 players including two goalies played this weekend and that's how it's going to be until January 4th when some roster additions will be instated. What are they you ask? I do have an idea from Richard, Murray and Brent but will be keeping my lips sealed but one player that I can tell you that could be in the line-up this weekend with Sexsmith is Jesse Stymiest from Westlock, played here in the 2009/2010 season when Richard was first head coach and he brings a strong stay at home d-man that will help out the likes of LeBlue, Lyle, Kunz and Hodge for the time being and Devin Rooks could return to the line-up which would make sure the defense is in working order, In my mind you can dress three lines as long as you have a full d-core. Should be fun to watch.

Just have 3 games left in 2011, a home at home this weekend with Sexsmith then a great close to the season as Peace River visits the Scott Safety Centre. The radio station will not carry Friday's home game due to the company Christmas party but will be on the road to Sexsmith on Saturday 8PM, IF YOU READ ONE THING ON THIS BLOG MAKE IT THIS.... We have a new website launching tomorrow as its now www.xm105fm.com or www.mytowntoday.ca click on the links its a website 1000.... wait make that a billion times better then our old one and its really user friendly! Check it out, guys there's even a swimsuit girl of the day on it so there ya go!
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In the Hopper

The Denver Broncos are the AFC West leader for the first time since they started 6-0 with Josh McDaniels two seasons ago... Boy how times have changed, I said it last week and will say it again, Stats come later, winning comes first and Tim Tebow has done just that!

The Flames are 5 points out of a playoff spot in early December... CHILL OUT GUYS don't panic... yet

Wally Buono is stepping away for coaching, Goes out a winner and did it with class as always congrats Wally from one Italian to another Buono Fortuna!

19 days till Christmas, I have not started shopping and won't till December 15th, Radio pay what ya gonna do?

I'm Out!