In this week's early game, the Crusaders beat the Cougars 9-3. It was a good point night for some of the Crusaders. Adrian Roelands scored twice and added two assists. Duncan Vanderwal scored a goal and got four assists. Steve DeBoer scored a goal and got two assists. Ryan Benjamins scored twice and got one assist. One of this week's co-winners of Player of the Week goes to Matt DeBoer who scored a hat-trick and added an assist.

The middle game was the first tied game in our league all season. Joel VanVeller of the Flyers scored the game tieing goal with 1:40 left in the third. Nobody was able to score in overtime, so the score ended up 2-2. Both Rick Jones of the Flyers and Risser Wierenga of the Stars each played great and kept their teams in the game.

The late game saw the Hawks upset the first place Omegas by beating them 5-2. Perrin Berg and Zack VanReenen each got a goal and assist for the Omegas, while Herb Zylstra Sr. assisted on both goals. Dave VanOostveen of the Hawks was the other co-winner of Player of the Week. He scored a hat-trick and got an assist, while Jack Huizinga got a goal and assisted on all three of Dave's goals.
With this victory, the Hawks have clinched a playoff spot and thus eliminated the Stars and Cougars from being in the playoffs.

It was brought to my attention on Friday night that I had not yet posted the stats for the January 22 game between the Flyers and Crusaders. They have now been posted. Sorry guys.

I have booked ice-times and we are all set for the playoff dates and times. You may want to check this out under the "Schedule" section.

I have made adjustments to all of the teams' rosters. Any player that has not played any games up to this point is no longer eligible to play any of the remaining games this season.

Here are the rulings that came from the January 22 game between the Flyers and Crusaders:

Derek Bouma of the Flyers was given a "10 minute" misconduct. He was okay to play in the game January 29 because this was his first "10 minute" misconduct this season.

Darryl Poort of the Flyers was given a "Match Penalty" with "Intent to Injure". For this, Darryl will be suspended for at least five games upon League review. We will discuss his pending return to play at the League meeting before the playoffs.

Jordan DeBoer of the Crusaders is suspended for two games due to the "Fighting Major" penalty that he received. He will be eligible to play again on February 19.

This past Friday (January 29), Jamie Feenstra of the Hawks received three minor penalties. This is the second time that this has occured this season for Jamie. He is okay to play the next game on February 12, but if this happens once more this season, he will be suspended for two games.