The two local Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League teams are on the road in their respective first-round playoff series.
The Strait Pirates meet the Miners in Membertou for game three of their best-of-seven, Sid Rowe Division semi-final.
The Pirates won Friday night’s game in Port Hawkesbury to even the series at one game apiece.
Meanwhile, the Antigonish Bulldogs visit the Eskasoni Eagles in game two of their semi-final series.
The Bulldogs won the opening game in Antigonish Friday night.
Both games get underway at 7:30 p.m.
Antigonish hosts game three in their series Tuesday night, while the Pirates host game four of their series Friday night.
The two local teams in the Nova Scotia Female Midget AAA Hockey League return to playoff action.
The Panthers host Halifax in game four of their best-of-five, league semi-final at 12:30 p.m.
Halifax won game three in Membertou to take a 2-1 lead in the first-round series Friday night; they can advance with a game four win.
A Halifax win sends the series back to Halifax for a fifth and deciding game Sunday morning.
The Northern Selects will try to finish off their semi-final series with the Penguins in Dartmouth at 4 p.m.
The Selects won the first two games of the series in New Glasgow Feb. 22-23.
A Penguins win would force a fourth game in Dartmouth Sunday night.
The Cabot Highlanders host the Basin Armada for the first of back-to-back games in the Nova Scotia Minor Midget AAA Hockey League.
The Highlanders (12-13-4) have one win in their last four to sit tied with the Admirals for fifth in the eight-team league with 28 points, nine points behind the Kings for fourth, and nine points ahead of seventh-place Fundy; the Armada (25-2-2), who are in top spot with 52 points, have won two of the first three games in the five-game season series between the teams.
Puck drop at the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre is 6 p.m.
The teams play again in Port Hawkesbury Sunday afternoon.
The Novas are on the road for the first game of their Nova Scotia Major Bantam Hockey League playoff series.
They visit the Dartmouth Whalers.
The Novas (24-8-1), who closed out the regular season with wins in two of their last three, finished in top spot in the 12-team league with 49 points; the Whalers (7-22-4) were last with 18 points.
The teams met three times in the regular season; the Novas won all three games by a combined score of 17-2.
Game time is 5 p.m.
The winner will have a chance to sweep the best-of-three, first-round series- and advance to major bantam provincials in Antigonish- when it shifts to Antigonish for game two March 7; the Novas have an automatic berth in provincials as the host team.
The Antigonish Rural League playoffs resume with a pair of games three at the Antigonish Arena.
The Pleasantdale Panthers play the Heatherton Warriors at 7 p.m.; the Panthers won game two in overtime to tie the best-of-seven, first-round series 1-1 Feb. 22.
The County Outlaws square off with the St. Croix Angels at 8:30 p.m.; the Angels won game two to take a 2-0 lead in that semi-final Feb. 22.
Games four in both series are March 7.
The province’s two Quebec Major Junior Hockey League teams are on the road for the second time in as many nights.
The Halifax Mooseheads visit the Quebec Remparts in the third game of their four-game road trip at 5 p.m.
The Mooseheads (19-35-4), coming off Friday night’s loss in Rimouski, have lost four straight and 13 of the last 14 to sit second-last in the 10-team Eastern Conference- and the entire 18-team league- with 42 points, nine points behind the Remparts (23-31-5) for eighth.
It’s the first game in the two-game season series between the teams; they meet again in Halifax March 6.
The Cape Breton Eagles are in New Brunswick to square off with the Saint John Sea Dogs at 7 p.m.
The Eagles, who lost in Charlottetown Friday night, have won five of the first six games in the nine-game season series between the Maritimes Division opponents.
The StFX men’s basketball team will try to clinch a spot in the AUS championship in Halifax.
They face the UNB Varsity Reds in the conference semi-finals.
The X-Men (11-9), who finished second in the eight-team conference with 36 points, earned a bye through the quarterfinals; the Varsity Reds beat the Capers in Friday night’s quarterfinals to advance.
Tip off is 8:30 p.m.
The winner advances to Sunday’s AUS final; the loser is eliminated.
