The Spruce Grove Saints (3-6-1-0) return home after a week in BC for a Sunday matinee to take on the Penticton Vees at Grant Fuhr Arena.
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Breakdown:
Spruce Grove:
Overall Record: 3-6-1-0 (8th in Interior Conference – 16th in BCHL)
Home Record: 1-4-0-0
Road Record: 2-2-1-0
Power Play: 7-for-33 (21.2% – 10th in BCHL)
Penalty Kill: 25-for-31 (80.6% – 9th in BCHL)
Penticton:
Overall Record: 8-2-0-0 (3rd in Interior Conference – 3rd in BCHL)
Home Record: 3-0-0-0
Road Record: 5-2-0-0
Power Play: 12-for-36 (30.3% – 4th in BCHL)
Penalty Kill: 20-for-28 (71.4% – 18th in BCHL)
Season Series:
Friday, September 20th @ Grant Fuhr Arena (3-2 Vees) (BOXSCORE)
Sunday, October 20th @ Grant Fuhr Arena (2:00 PM)
Friday, February 28th @ South Okanagan Events Centre (8:00 PM MST)
Friday, March 14th @ South Okanagan Events Centre (8:00 PM MST)
Looking Back:
The Saints wrapped up a week long stretch in the Lower Mainland of BC on Friday night and finished on a high note as they took down the defending BCHL Champion Surrey Eagles by a 5-2 score at South Surrey Arena. Carson Lloyd notched his first career BCHL goal while Ryan Johnstone, Matheson Mason, Max Seguin and Josh Polak also added markers in the Spruce Grove victory. Ryan De Kok earned his first win of the season while turning aside 37 of the 39 shots he faced between the pipes.
Penticton returns to Spruce Grove for the second time following a 6-4 defeat to the Sherwood Park Crusaders on Saturday night at Randy Rosen Rink. Conyr Hellyer, Eli McKamey, Simon Meier and Nolan Stevenson each found the back of the net while Will Ingemann started the game, making 16 saves on 19 shots before Andrew Ness took over, turning aside 9 of the 11 shots thrown his way in relief and suffered his 1st loss of the season in net.
Saints Leading Scorers:
Josh Polak (5-4-9)
Austin Peters (3-3-6)
Keifer Miller (2-4-6)
Max Seguin (2-4-6)
Matheson Mason (4-1-5)
Vees Leading Scorers:
Ryden Evers (5-7-12)
Anselmo Rego (3-9-12)
Conyr Hellyer (3-7-10)
Max Heise (6-3-9)
Landon Wright (6-3-9)
Who To Watch For:
Spruce Grove:
- Keifer Miller – Forward – Banff, Alberta – College of the Holy Cross
It was a successful trip to BC for the Banff, AB native as Miller racked up points in each of the three games the Saints played in the Lower Mainland and carries a three-game point streak into Sunday afternoon’s affair. The Holy Cross commit has a goal and three assists for four points over that stretch, including a pair of assists on Friday night in Surrey.
- Josh Polak – Forward – Strathcona County, Alberta
Scoring his team-leading fifth goal of the season on Friday against the Eagles, Polak added an assist in his game as well to bring him up to nine points on the season, also pacing his team in that regard. The Strathcona Country, AB native has a knack for scoring against Penticton in the team’s one and only meeting so far to open the season where he had a goal and an assist in the contest as Spruce Grove fell just short.
Penticton:
- Ryden Evers – Forward – Burnaby, BC – University of Nebraska-Omaha
Bringing in a player with championship pedigree is always a beneficial factor for any team and Penticton saw that in acquiring Evers, who won the Fred Page Cup as season ago with the Surrey Eagles and now leads the Vees in scoring with 12 points in the opening 10 games of the season. The UNO commit has points in each of his last five contests, registering three goals and five assists for eight points in that span.
- Conyr Hellyer – Forward – Okotoks, Alberta – Arizona State University
Back-to-back three point games for Hellyer places the Vees captain amongst the leaders in scoring in his attempt to will his team to a win in Sherwood Park on Saturday and falling just short. A commit to ASU, Hellyer, like Evers, also has points in each of his last five games, earning three goals and six assists for nine points in that span with six of those points coming in his last two games.
The Saints and Vees play in the second of their four-game season series on Sunday with puck drop slated for 2:00 PM. Fans are encouraged to bring a helmet and a pair of skates and head on the ice following the final buzzer for a Skate with the Saints. Tickets can be purchased online at tickets.sprucegrovesaints.ca.
