A total of 169 out of 200 SIJHL regular season games are in the books. Week 21 resumes February 17th with three Monday afternoon games.
Kenora’s premature end to the 2024-25 season led to a number of 1-0 forfeit wins being distributed among the affected teams. The additional points led to a re-jig of the standings. Dryden secured four wins in the process. The Ice Dogs emerged with a seven point lead atop the SIJHL standings through Week 20. The Ice Dogs are ranked 18th in the latest CJHL poll.
Dryden has six scorers in the top 20 led by Max Roby’s 25 goals and 56 points. McLaren Paulsen, who hasn’t played since December 21st, has 50, tied with Payton Hu. Carson Devine has 47 points. Eli Antoine and Emmanuel Nkombou have 41 and 35 points respectively.
Kellan Mooney has 16 wins, with a 2.33 GAA and .932 SV%.
Dryden has the number two power play at 27.0% and an 82.8% penalty kill.
Kam River is on a seven-game points streak. Their goal differential is plus-96, tops in the league. Their ratio of goals for to goals against is over 2:1. The Walleye are 20th in the most recent CJHL rankings. Daxton Lang and Jett Mintenko are one-two in point production with 67 and 65 points. Both have 26 goals. Line mate Kaden Goodwin has 52 points. Carter Poddubny has 32.
Ashton Sadauskas leads the SIJHL in goaltending wins with 19, and time on ice, 1,671 minutes. His 2.37 GAA and .929 SV% are among the league leaders. Sam Keene is 6-0-0 as a Walleye.
On special teams the Fighting Walleye are 25.6% on the PP and 83.6% (second in the league) on the PK.
Sioux Lookout is tied with Thunder Bay with 56 points. The Bombers are on a 11-game points streak. Sioux Lookout has played 39 games, fewest in the league.
Alex Lucas, 52 points, and Jonah Smith, 45 points, pace the team in scoring. Owen Cotter and Tait Howell have 33 and 30 points respectively.
Matthew Ofukany is 16-3-0/2.28/.921 and Matthew Spencer-Dahl is 10-6-1/2.66/.922 in net. Ofukany has 1,209 minutes. Spencer-Dahl has 1,081.
The Bombers have a 15.7% PP and 78.0% PK.
Thunder Bay has not lost in regulation in seven straight games. Their 188 goals in 40 games ranks first on a goals-per-game basis.
The North Stars have six players in the top-20. Captain Tyler Jordan has 29 goals to lead the league. He sits third in point production with 61.
Defenceman Tag Bryson has 46 points to lead all rearguards. His 45 assists are number one among all players. Rookie Evan Simeoni is the top rookie scorer with 44 points. Beau Helmeczi also has 44 points, Marcellus Francis has 43 and Alex Remenda has 39.
Keenan Marks is 10-7-2/2.93/.922 in his age-20 season. Liam Letters is 3-0-1/2.47/.935 since joining the team.
Thunder Bay has a 25.5% PP and 89.0% PK. The sum of those two, 114.5%, is league-leading.
Fort Frances is ten points behind Thunder Bay, six points up on Red Lake.
Brady Krentz hit 20 goals and has 25 assists. Jack Wood has 14 goals overall–a league-leading 11 of them on the power play. Wood has 31 points. Pierce Gouin and Evan Kabel have 29 points each.
Gunner Paradis is 10-6-0/2.70/.931 through 20 games. Rookie Nolan Koethler is 7-10-1.
The Lakers have the SI’s best power play at 29.3% and have an 80.0% penalty kill.
Red Lake is 5-2-3 in their last 10 but are winless in their last three.
Nathan Dann paces the team with 23 goals and 42 points. Rookie Quinn Szpak has 33 points and defenceman Bryson Carlyle has 26.
Rookie Koen Webber is 9-6-2 in net. Newcomer Nick Peters is 1-4-1.
The Miners sport a 17.4% PP and 78.0% PK.
Ironwood picked up eight points with four Kenora forfeits. The Lumberjacks have a win, an overtime tie and eight losses in their last ten games decided on the ice.
Marshall Thomas has 17 goals and 25 assists. Matteo Salvatore (27 points), Collin Baker (25), Aidan Charron (24) and Josh Gulden (23) are next.
Trent Boryszczuk, 6-10-1/3.66/.924, and Kole Kronstedt, 2-18-1/5.63/.872, tend goal.
The Lumberjacks have a 19.8% PP and 65.2% PK. Ironwood has the fewest penalty minutes with 529 in 43 games.
 | AT SIOUX LOOKOUT BOMBERS |  | ||
| Ty Kirk had two goals, and Matthew Ofukany stopped 38 of 41 shots as the Bombers took a 6-3 decision before 454 fans at Ice for Kids Arena. Owen Riffel had a goal and two assists, and Ashton Cuvelier had a goal and helper to buoy the Bomber attack. Evan Kabel had a three point night for the Lakers, and teammate Landon Lowes assisted twice. The game was tight until the latter stages of the third. Jack Wood opened the scoring for Fort Frances at 8:17 of the first, 12 seconds into a Laker power play. Wood's one-timer was his 14th goal of the year. Kirk scored for Sioux Lookout with a wrister from the slot to tie the game, and Ty Lone's seventh over the left shoulder of Gunner Paradis at 16:54 put the Bombers up 2-1. Jonah Smith scored on a shorthanded breakaway at 5:49 of the second to put the Bombers up by two goals. Kabel's unassisted marker at 12:15 closed the gap to 3-2. Pierce Gouin's 15th at 7:18 knotted the score at 3-3 at 7:18 of the third on a power play rebound. Kirk's second of the game 1:02 later proved to be the game winner. Cuvelier added an insurance marker at 10:49. Riffel's empty netter at 18:41 sealed the deal. Ofukany improved his record to 16-3-0 while Paradis saw his record slip to 10-6-0. Paradis handled 45 of 50 shots. The Lakers' number one power play struck for two goals on three chances, while the Bombers were 0-3. Fort Frances took 24 of 36 penalty minutes. |
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| Sioux Lookout swept the Lakers with a 6-2 win on Saturday. Gage Roberts had two goals and two assists to lead the way offensively. Matthew Spencer-Dahl made 31 save to secure his 10th win of the year. Evan Kabel struck at 6:58 of the first to open the scoring for Fort Frances. Kabel's power play wrist shot high blocker side was his sixth. The Bombers emerged from the first period with a 3-1 lead, however. Roberts scored at 12:04, Kaden Veller went five-hole on Nolan Koethler at 14:16, and Roberts got his second of the game and 11th of the year with a second left in the period. Brady Krentz' over-the-shoulder wrister narrowed the lead to one. Alex Lucas went backhand to forehand and through Koethler's pads for a 4-2 Bomber lead, and Cedric Robidoux used Mahekun Laroche as a decoy on a Sioux Lookout 2-on-1 and fired in his seventh at 11:33 for a three-goal Bomber edge. Koethler faced 16 shots and was pulled after Robidoux' goal. Gunner Paradis stopped 10 of 11 the rest of the way. Brodie Wood made it 6-2 early in the third to salt the game away. His top shelf backhander was his 11th. Both teams were assessed six minor penalties each had four power plays as a result. Kabel's marker in the first was the only power play goal. Wood added two assists, and Robidoux and Lucas had two points for the Bombers. Attendance was 484. |
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| Jacob Lamoureux scored two and Kam River outshot Ironwood 52-23 as the Fighting Walleye defeated the Lumberjacks 4-2 before 200 fans at the Pat O'Donnell Civic Center in Ironwood, MI. Ironwood opened up a 2-0 lead. Jack Hanna deflected a Cooper Malkowski point shot at 8:28, and Collin Baker ripped one over Ashton Sadauskas' glove at 12:07. Lamoureux scored his first of the game and second of the season at 18:41 to narrow the margin to one. Kam River took a 3-2 lead after forty minutes. Jett Mintenko tied it at 6:43, sniping his 26th from the slot. Daxton Lang recorded his 41st assist on the play, with Callum Halls in on the secondary helper. Lamoureux polished off a tic tac toe with Nickolas Fagnilli and Evan Lachimea at 16:33. In the third period, Carter Poddubny parked his 13th under the arm of Trent Boryszczuk to add a little insurance. Kam River took a minor penalty late in the third, and Ironwood pulled Boryszczuk for an extra man with 47 seconds left but to no avail. Both teams were scoreless on the power play. The Walleye took four of the seven minor penalties called. |
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| After holding period leads of 2-0 and 3-0 the Fighting Walleye poured in five additional unanswered third period goals to take an 8-0 decision over the Lumberjacks. Ashton Sadauskas picked up his league leading 19th win, recorded a 17-save shutout--his second of the year--while lowering his goals against average to 2.37 and upping his save percentage to .929. He joined his teammate Sam Keene with two shutouts. Six Walleye players had multiple points led by Kaden Goodwin's two goals and two assists. Amar Powar added two goals, Max Wright had a goal and two helpers, Jacob Lamoureux had a goal and assist, and Zach Baumann, Carter Poddubny and Caleb Labelle had two assists each. Evan Lachimea and Callum Halls added solo tallies. Powar scored the first two goals of the game, converting a cross-ice pass for his first, followed by a snipe from the right dot past Ironwood starter Kole Kronstedt. Goodwin got his 20th in the middle frame. The Walleye outshot Ironwood 22-2 in the third, scoring five more. A total of 78 penalty minutes were called after just two minor penalties in the first period. Four players per side were tagged with fighting majors. Kam River had one power play goal in seven chances while killing off five penalties. Kronstedt stopped 37 of 45 for Ironwood. |
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| Payton Hu scored two and Kellan Mooney made 51 stops as the Ice Dogs skated to a 5-2 win before 515 fans at Dryden Memorial Arena. The game featured some big hits and a couple of fights, teeing up Saturday's return match in Red Lake. Brodie Scopick deflected Adam Zimmerman's point shot for a 1-0 Dryden lead late in the first. Jordan Wales and Rylen Oatman, both with their 11th goals, made it 3-0 in the second. Wales connected on the power play, and Kelby Diehl found Oatman open at 16:17. Mooney made back-to-back great saves prior to Oatman's goal. Payton Hu made it 4-0 at 1:30 of the third. Red Lake's Bryson Carlyle's thunderous--and legal--hit on Wales early in the third set the stage for a physical final period. Carlyle and Scopick tangled at 4:08, and Matthew MacPherson and Adam Zimmerman fought at 15:01. Red Lake's Nathan Dann broke Mooney's shut out at 12:55 on a Miners' power play, finding just enough space to fire in his 23rd from a tough angle. Hu's second of the period and 20th of the year, made it 5-1 at 18:30. Kayne Pawlick ended the scoring with 29 seconds left, making it 5-2. Nick Peters took the loss in the Red Lake net, stopping 50 of 55. Mooney saw his record improve to 16-3-1. Dryden was 1-5 with the man advantage. Red Lake was 1-6. Exactly one hour's worth of penalty minutes were called, with the Ice Dogs claiming 36 of the 60 minutes. |
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| Max Roby scored with 22 seconds left in overtime as the Ice Dogs defeated Red Lake 4-3 at Cochenour Arena. Noah Davis secured the win with a 39-save performance. Roby added a pair of assists and Payton Hu had a two point night for the Ice Dogs. No lead was secure. Noah Tenney opened the scoring at 5:19 of the first, cashing in a rebound for his ninth of the year. Hu's 21st, a behind-the-net bank shot off Koen Webber tied the game three minutes later. The second period was scoreless but physical. A total of nine minor penalties were meted out in the middle frame. Carson Devine struck for a Dryden 5-on-3 power play marker at 36 seconds of the third. Foxx McColl knotted the score at 3:13, snapping home his first goal of the season from the high slot. Eli Antoine put home Evan Mayer's rebound midway through the period. The 3-2 Dryden lead lasted until the final minute of regulation. With the Red Lake net empty and after a pair of Dryden icings Landon van Engelen deflected a Bryson Carlyle point shot past Davis with a minute to go to tie the game at 3-3. Red Lake outshot Dryden 3-2 in extra time. With time running out Roby rumbled down the right wing after accepting a pass from Jordan Wales, angled in for a better sight line, and fired it past Webber for the decider. Red Lake took 30 of the 44 penalty minutes. The Ice Dogs were 1-7 on the power play while killing off four Red Lake chances. |
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