The Nova Scotia Major Midget Hockey League playoff series between the Cape Breton West Islanders and Valley Wildcats shifts to Berwick for game three.
The best-of-five, quarterfinal series is tied 1-1; the Wildcats won the opening game in the first-round series 3-2 in double overtime in Port Hood Saturday night, then the Islanders evened the series with a 10-2 win at home the next day.
Game time is 7 p.m.
The winner will have a chance to advance to the second round with a win in game four in Berwick Saturday afternoon.
The Cape Breton Panthers will try to stay alive in the Nova Scotia Female Midget AAA Hockey League playoffs.
They host Halifax in game three of their semi-final.
Halifax won the first two games in the best-of-five, first-round series by a combined score of 13-2 in February; the league playoffs took two weekends off while players participated in the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, Alberta.
Game time is 5 p.m.
If the Panthers win, the series remains in Membertou for game four Saturday morning.
Two local boys high school hockey teams are taking part in the NSSAF Div. 2 championship in Kingston.
The Richmond Academy Hurricanes and Inverness-Baddeck Academy Rebels are among eight teams in two divisions competing for the provincial title.
The Hurricanes face the West Kings Wolverines, the host team, at 1 p.m. and the Sommet Cougars at 7:30 p.m.; the Rebels play the Barrington Barons at 2:30 p.m., then the Par-en-Bas Sharks at 9 p.m.
The preliminary round continues Saturday, with the top two teams in each division advancing to the semi-finals Saturday night; the championship game is Sunday afternoon.
You can find a link to the full tournament schedule here. https://sites.google.com/gnspes.ca/nssaf/sports/hockey?authuser=0
The North Conference Atom A Female Tournament is being played in Antigonish.
The first game will see Antigonish against the Cape Breton Blizzards at 3:30.
After that Truro will take on Cape Breton West at 4:45 and Pictou vs Strait will have puck drop at 6 p.m.
The full schedule can be found here.
St. Andrews’ Declan Smith and the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles host the Charlottetown Islanders in back-to-back games in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
The Screaming Eagles (46-14-3), winners of four of their last five, are tied with the Islanders (36-20-7) for sixth in the 18-team league with 79 points, nine points behind Rimouski for fifth, and two points ahead of eighth-place Moncton.
Cape Breton has a slight 4-3 edge through the first seven games of the nine-game season series between the Maritimes Division opponents.
Puck drop at Centre 200 in Sydney is 7 p.m.
The teams square off again in Sydney Saturday night.
