There are a pair of games in the Antigonish Rural League.
The St. Croix Angels square off with the Heatherton Warriors at 7 p.m.; the Pleasantdale Panthers play the County Outlaws at 8:30 p.m.
Both games are at the Antigonish Arena.
The province’s two Quebec Major Junior Hockey League teams return to action following the Christmas break.
The Halifax Mooseheads host the Cape Breton Eagles in the latest edition of the Battle of Nova Scotia.
The Eagles (17-13-3), who went into the break on a three-game losing skid, are fifth in the 10-team Eastern Conference with 37 points, seven points behind Charlottetown for fourth, and two points ahead of sixth-place Saint John; the Mooseheads (15-15-3), who lost back-to-back games and three of their last four before Christmas, are seventh with 33 points, two points behind Saint John for sixth, and two points ahead of eighth-place Baie-Comeau.
Cape Breton has won four of the first five games in the nine-game season series against Halifax.
Puck drop at Scotiabank Centre is 7 p.m.
It’s the first half of the provincial rivals’ annual holiday home-and-home series known as the Hurley Cup- the teams square off again in Sydney Sunday afternoon.
