The StFX hockey teams are on the ice for AUS action.
The short-handed X-Men are in Fredericton to face the first-place UNB Varsity Reds.
StFX (15-10-3), with one loss in the last four games, sits third in the seven-team conference with 33 points, four points behind Saint Mary’s for second, and three points ahead of fourth-place Moncton; UNB (23-2-3) is in top spot with 49 points and ranked second in the country.
It’s the fifth and final regular season games between the teams; they split the first four.
The X-Men are missing nine players and head coach Brad Peddle to suspension after a major on-ice brawl in their last game against Acadia; they wrap up the regular season when they play UPEI in Charlottetown Saturday night.
The X-Women host the St. Thomas Tommies at the Keating Centre in Antigonish in their final regular season home game.
It’s a match-up of the top two teams in the eight-team conference; StFX (16-7-3), ranked eighth in the country, is second with 35 points, two points ahead of third-place Saint Mary’s.
St. Thomas (21-4-1), ranked fourth in the country, is in top spot with 43 points.
The Tommies have won two of the first three games in the four-game season series.
Both games get underway at 7 p.m.
StFX wraps up the regular season against UPEI in Charlottetown Sunday afternoon.
One of the province’s Quebec Major Junior Hockey League teams are on home ice.
St. Andrews’ Declan Smith and the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles host Pleasant Valley’s Jacob Hudson, Antigonish’s Jake and Sean Stewart and the Moncton Wildcats at Centre 200 in Sydney.
The Screaming Eagles (31-15-5), who have lost back-to-back games, are sixth in the 18-team league with 67 points, six points behind Rimouski for fifth, and four points ahead of seventh-place Charlottetown; the Wildcats (26-18-7) are tied for eighth with 59 points.
Cape Breton has a 4-2 lead in the nine-game season series.
The Halifax Mooseheads game was called off due to weather.
That game will be played on Monday.
