SJHL Media Hockey Pool - using SJHL players.

Mike Stackhouse (SJHL media relations)

My team: Rakochy (Mlv), Roach (Hum), WKlassen (Bfd), Clark (FF), Majkowski (Ykt), Penner (FF), Tagoona (Mlv), McNulty (Mlv)

Branden Crowe (voice of the Melfort Mustangs)

Team Crowe: FWD's :Marshall (HMB), Kozun (NIP), Neufeld (EST), DEF: Williamson (NIP), C.Berg (MEL), GOAL: Hrynkiw (HMB) BENCH: Boyer (LA), Ballas (HMB)

Daniel Fink (voice of the La Ronge Ice Wolves)

‎(coping Mike) My team: Rajotte (LAR), Greyeyes (LAR), Bird (MLV), Rodgers (KK), Carre (LAR), Mireau (MLV), King (KK), Christian (ND)

Jösh Lewis (Sports Reporter for the Estevan Mercury)

Team Lewis: Shymko (YOR), Newell (MVL), Backhouse (HUM), Grolla (ND), Ciolfi (HUM), Struble (YOR), Hall (BAT), Olson (EST)

Brenden Ullrich (voice of the Kindersley Klippers)

My team : FWDS - Tatchell, McGrath, Froese, Waskewitch - DMEN - Christensen - Roper - Haaf Goal - McDonald

Craig Stein (voice of the Yorkton Terriers)

G: Sirard (MVL)... D: Luhning (BAT), M. Berg (MFT), Coupal (WEY)... F: Johnston (HUM), Smith (EST), Young (FF), Sanderson (WEY)

Gino De Paoli (voice of the Whitecourt Wolverines)

Team Doug Johnson G: Davis Jones (NIP), Devon McMullen (YKT), Logan Sproule (HMT), Keegan Bruce (WEY), Taylor Duzan (KK), Tyler Paslawski (NIP), Adam Zbitniff (HMT) and Jared Iron (LA)

Phil Heilman

Team Son of a Gun consists of G: Mitch Kilgore (WEY). F: Jesse Ross (WEY), Skylar Hladun (LA), Braeden Johnson (NB) and Adam Reichert (NIP). D: Dominic Perrault (EST), Zach MacLellan (NB) and Troy Dumais (YKT)

Hockey Season is nearing.

For the record my faithful followers, I am still kicking, alive and well. Hockey season is vast approaching, with new faces everywhere. In the booth, former Fort St. John Husky PxP man Mike Feeney is the new PxP man for the Battlefords North Stars, while the new bench boss is Kevin Hasselberg. Former boss Ken Pearson resigned from the job to take the Winkler Flyers (MJHL) head coach position.

The 2011-2012 pre-season schedule looks like this for the Stars. And stay tuned for more information as they come available.

	Away		Home
Sept. 2	Battlefords North Stars	@	Lloydminster
Sept. 3	Lloydminster	@	Battlefords North Stars
Sept. 9	Dauphin	@	Battlefords North Stars
Sept. 10	TBD	@	Battlefords North Stars	@	5:00 PM
Sept. 11	La Ronge	@	Battlefords North Stars

The Music Heilman: Music Video review.

Let's go Canadian for installment #1.

Marianas Trench ft. Jessica Lee - Good To You.

The video begins with Jessica walking into a empty and messed up dining room at a local club, and looking around rather blankly, realizing the man trying to help her (Marianas Trench lead singer Josh Ramsay). This begins a flashback, and also begins the song.

The band are situated on the stage in the local club, with Ramsay playing the piano. The story begins with the night club full to capacity (people having a good time, and drinks being served/shared). Ramsay, portrayed as a bartender, overlooks the situation, with nothing special happening.

The main attraction then appears on stage, Jessica Lee. She begins to sing on stage without incident. Josh notices both Jessica for her singing abilites, and her lovely looks. Then, without warning, a posse of black-suited men appear in the club, out for Jessica for reasons unknown. Eventually, she is dragged offstage by what appears to be the ringleader of the group. Ramsay, realizing what is happening, attempts to stop the men from taking Jessica, only to be pushed around by them all.

The men return, now out to remove Ramsay, at all costs. A massive fight breaks out, with all items being used as weapons. Eventually, the ringleader pulls out a gun, fires it in the air, then points it at a bloodies Ramsay. The rest of the group pulls the ringleader away, which starts up a massive stampede of people running out of the night club.

At this point in time, Jessica joins the band onstage and video ends with Jessica and Josh smiling at each other.

What It Means: If you have the passionate love for someone, you are willing to do anything for that person. The lyrics suggest how good you should be treated by your loved one, no matter the situation.

My Crazy Trip, The Blades, and Beisball

So, it's been a while.. Hockey Withdrawl will do that to a guy.

The Kaiser Bun

In case you haven't heard, I made a somewhat questionable trip to Camrose, Alberta last Tuesday to catch AJHL play-off action between the Kodiaks and the Okotoks Oilers. This was Game 3 of the best of 7, and the two teams split Games one and two in Okotoks. This is the Conference final between the two rivals, and the fire came out in this game. Over 100 PIM's combined in the game, with good defence, and the standard heckling. Camrose is hosting the RBC Cup this year, and even if they lose this series, they are still into the Junior A equivilant to Lord Stanley's Mug, due to the fact that they are the host team. They lost 5-3, however, I had a blast, and would re-do the experience if I ever have the chance again.

Blade, I hardly knew her!

The Saskatoon Blades continue their ridiculous year tonight, thrashing the Prince Albert Raiders yet again, this time 5-2, following the 8-1 train wreck. Here is colour commentator Cody Nickolet's post-game summary of Game 2:

It wasn't the same dominating performance from Saturday, but the Saskatoon Blades showed tonight that they can win in a number of different ways.

The Raiders came out early in this game and looked much better than last night, carrying the play for the first ten minutes or more.

But it was the Blades who scored the only goal of the period as Brayden Schenn broke through the neutral zone and beat atleast 3 Raiders to the front of the goal and slid the puck past Eric Williams.

It was 1-0 after 1.

The Raiders scored in the 2nd period, but Saskatoon still remained in control as they matched that one tally by scoring three of their own. The Blades 2nd period goals came from Dziurzynski, Nicholls and Schenn. Shane Danyluk scored for the Raiders, his first career WHL playoff goal.

The teams traded goals in the third, Curtis Hamilton from the Blades and Antoine Corbin for Prince Albert.

The final was 5-2. The Blades now lead the series 2-0.

The game featured a pair of scraps. In the first period Curtis Hamilton was absolutely destroyed at centre ice by Harrison Ruopp. Brayden Schenn went to jump in and scrap Ruopp, but Siemens charged in and they squared off. Not much of a fight, but it was nice to see a pair of teammates come to the aid of Hamilton. He missed a few shifts, but came back a few minutes later.

Later in the game Dalton Thrower took on Austin Connor. Thrower gave up a ton of size to the 6'4 Connor, but he earned the take down after landing 2-3 solid rights to the big man's chips.

Steven Stanford was solid once again for the Blades, stopping 31 pucks. Eric Williams was decent for the Raiders, also making 31 saves in the loss.

The series now shifts to Prince Albert for games 3 and 4 on Wednesday and Thursday.

You can hear Cody and play by play man Les Lazaruk on 92.9 The Bull with all the Blades play-off action.

I Think He Mis-remembers

Yes, my friends. It is that time of year again. The real baseball season begins March 31st. The Blue Jays are interesting this year; having new faces such as Lind at 1B, Yunel Escobar starting at SS, Bautista wandering around 3B, and no Vernon patrolling CF. Speed has been added with former Oakland OF Rajai Davis... Opening day is coming up, all we can do is sit back and wait.

Chara Hit on Patches

For those of you who haven't seen it, click here

Starting conversation between an Unnamed Leafs Fan and Myself:

ULF: I don't wanna say it was not a dirty hit, but I mean Pacioretty has GOTTA protect himself around a turnbuckle. Both players didn't use their brains on that one. I agree though, it seemed pretty malicious.

ME: [Zdeno] Chara has to hold up and realize hes running a guy into said turnbuckle,
but Patches [Max Pacioretty] has to think that theres a moose [Chara] beside him and he should move. Chara should get 10 [games], but the league won't give him any more then 5 [games]

The conversation continued to the aftermath of the collision. The Leafs fan mentioned that "He looked dead" lying on the ice.

ME: The bruins feed of that game, the announcers were like "holy crap that was a crazy hit" [and]

even they were like "that was a late hit"

ULF: Absolutely dirty

Also to mention what another friend, Mike Stackhouse, said, "This stuff didn't happen 20 years ago. Why? Lots of theories. It just didn't."

One final note from the current colour commentator for the Saskatoon Blades on 92.9 The Bull, Cody Nickolet: "Ya looked pretty dangerous. I didn't think it was that bad. Interference but not much more."

Sound off people. All I ask is that bias is set aside on this. Was it dirty? Does Chara need to be suspened? You can comment on here, Facebook me, or e-mail heilzy18@gmail.com

Nordiques/Outlaws ramblings

This could be it.

The St. Brieux Nordiques take the 5 hour bus trip to Wilkie this afternoon to clash with the Outlaws in the SaskCan Community Centre.

Keys for the Nordiques:

• Run and Gun: Take a page out of the NHL Nordiques handbook; Adam Foote to Joe Sakic, goal light. Three extremely fast skaters tear a part the Outlaws defence.
• 2 Tickets to the show: 2 goals up coming into this game, so holding this lead will punch your ticket to the finals

Keys for Wilkie

• Lead the Pack: You never trailed until 4 minutes left in the game! St. Brieux never traveled 5 hours on a bus either, so we will see how they react to leaving at 10:30 am
• Solid Defence: The line of Forsberg, Nolan and Clark will be coming at you full-speed for the full 60 minutes.

Puck drops at 4:30pm.

Nordiques win over Jets

No wait, I forgot. It's Midget Provincial, not mid 90's NHL.

Anyways, the St. Brieux Nordiques, on the strength of some 'Home calls" and a strong 3rd period, beat the Midget Outlaws 6-4 last night in the St. Brieux Arena.

The Brieux-Crew, however, did not hold a lead until the 16:00 mark of the 3rd period. Until then, the Outlaws and Nordiques were either tied up or the Wilkie squad held a 1-goal cushion.

Stay tuned for a extended tee-up to the game plus pictures.