The Miramichi Phantoms of the North Shore Senior Hockey League are in a dog fight with the Caraquet Acadiens for third spot in the south division.
After deafeating the Lamèque-Shippagan Pêcheurs last night 6-3, the Phantoms moved into sole posetion of third place, but remain olny two points of Caraquet.
The Phantoms are playing much better hockey than at the start of the year.
They struggled for most of the season after losing two of their top four scorers and one of their defenceman who led the all d-men in points and the end of last year.
Many times the Phantoms were caught running around in their own zone and gave up way too many scoring chances.
In the past three or four weeks the Phantoms have turned it around.
Stanson Donovan and Rock MacDonald have returned to the team after missing the first half of the season.
The Phantoms must finish ahead of Caraquet to avoid playing Tracadie-Sheila Alpines in the first round.
The Alpines have only lost one game all season.
Some good news for the Phantoms if they do play Tracadie is ,they had the Alpines down midway trough the third period before blowing the lead.
So if the Phantoms can put together a full 60 minute effort against the opposition, they should be alright.
John Murdock had been stellar for the Phantoms in net.
The young 18 year old has been making several key saves game in and game out and has been the reason why the Phantoms have been keeping things close.
Most people thought the season would be over after starter Nick Hardy broke his jaw after getting a puck in the face.
But Murdock is proving everyone wrong.
The Phantoms are on the road tonight to take on the same Acadiens who only trail them by two points.
If the Phantoms can win tonight or gain a point and if Caraquet can lose to Tracadie tomorrow night, the Phantoms are all but assured third place.
Miramichi should be able to beat Lamèque-Shippagan, if they play eachother in the playoffs, as the Pêcheurs are in 2nd place in the south divison.
It certainly is nice to see hockey on the river is improving and the fans are stating to show up at the rinks too.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
Winter Carnival Week
This week was winter carnival week at the College. According to most people I talked to it went well and everyone seemed to enjoy it.
I think it's good that we have a winter carnival. It's a nice way to relax and get our minds of school for a bit and have some good laugh with everyone else at the school.
You have to give a ton of credit to this years student council for making all of this stuff happen to.
Things didn't look so good last year, but this year's student council really steped it up and gave alot of their time and effort for all of the activities.
The All-Star ball hockey game turned out good, there was a decent amount of students in the stands and both teams put on a good show.
The pie-throwing contest raised money for Mother Against Drunk Drivers(MADD).
The Kareoke was a hit as well.
All in all, a good winter carnival all around and hopefully next year's will be just as good.
I think it's good that we have a winter carnival. It's a nice way to relax and get our minds of school for a bit and have some good laugh with everyone else at the school.
You have to give a ton of credit to this years student council for making all of this stuff happen to.
Things didn't look so good last year, but this year's student council really steped it up and gave alot of their time and effort for all of the activities.
The All-Star ball hockey game turned out good, there was a decent amount of students in the stands and both teams put on a good show.
The pie-throwing contest raised money for Mother Against Drunk Drivers(MADD).
The Kareoke was a hit as well.
All in all, a good winter carnival all around and hopefully next year's will be just as good.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Superbowl
I'm not a really big football fan, but ever since I moved to Woodstock. I started watching it way more often.
It helps when you have friends who are football fanatics too(thanks Ryan).
I'm cheering for the Steelers in this one.
Their defence is by far the best in the league, the Steelers also have a very underated offense that can go and get the job done, alot of people don't realize that.
I may not have an expertise in football, but being an athlete myself I can understand that it takes hard work, good defence and offense to win games.
The Steelers defenitly have all three.
I was impressed with how the Steelers managed to rip apart the Baltimore Ravens their offense and blitz the defensive line to get to Joe Flacco.
The Ravens had the #2 defence and The Steelers made them look like they had the #32 ranked defence in the league.
The Cardinals have a young talented team with a fair amount of depth, but the Steelers have 20 players who went to the Superbowl, while the Cardinals only have 5.
This will play a huge factor in the finals.
As long as the Steelers offensive line does a good job of protecting Ben Roethlisberger (which they probably will) This will mean tons of points on the board for an already well rounded team.
It helps when you have friends who are football fanatics too(thanks Ryan).
I'm cheering for the Steelers in this one.
Their defence is by far the best in the league, the Steelers also have a very underated offense that can go and get the job done, alot of people don't realize that.
I may not have an expertise in football, but being an athlete myself I can understand that it takes hard work, good defence and offense to win games.
The Steelers defenitly have all three.
I was impressed with how the Steelers managed to rip apart the Baltimore Ravens their offense and blitz the defensive line to get to Joe Flacco.
The Ravens had the #2 defence and The Steelers made them look like they had the #32 ranked defence in the league.
The Cardinals have a young talented team with a fair amount of depth, but the Steelers have 20 players who went to the Superbowl, while the Cardinals only have 5.
This will play a huge factor in the finals.
As long as the Steelers offensive line does a good job of protecting Ben Roethlisberger (which they probably will) This will mean tons of points on the board for an already well rounded team.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Another week of school finished!
Already two weeks gone by since coming back from Christmas break..... that went by fast.
If the weeks keep going by this quick, the second term is gonna fly by.
At first this week was tough. I had to find a Documentary idea for TV and nothing was really clicking, so i couldn't really get anything done.
I finally found a good subject to do my Documentary on as I chose the Great Miramichi Fire that destroyed the Miramichi in October of 1825.
I wasn't really able to find any information about the subject at first, which worried me some.
But now I have one interview set up and maybe a 2nd and 3rd too.
The second person said they weren't 100% sure if they could do it, but were willing to give me some information about the fire nonetheless.
I'm hoping to get most of this done when I go home next weekend. I can tell ya one thing, she's gonna be a busy week at home on the Miramichi, it's worth it though.
All that hard work is starting to pay off. I know things are going to fall into place, it's just a matter of time.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Good News for the Miramichi and area
For the first time in along time, the Miramichi has some positive news about job opportunity's in the area.
The former UPM mill was bought by a Norwegian solar panel company last week.
Hopefully this will create more jobs for the area as most people in the Miramichi are moving out west to find work.
When UPM closed on December 15th last year over 500 jobs were lost. Deatils weren't fully released on how many job opening their would be as the terms wont be released until the end of the month when the final agreement is made.
Maybe this could be a major sponsor for the Miramichi Timberwolves? Who knows? Hopefully they will invest some money in the team to keep them afloat during this economic downturn.
Even investing some money in the City would be nice, but there are no guarentee's that will happen.
Also, Ocean Spray, The American Juice maker is looking to grow cranberries near Rogersville(about 30 minutes from Miramichi.)
According to the Miramichi Leader it could create 100 jobs and it will be the biggest cranberry producer in North America.
Some good news for a part of the province that has been struggling for quite sometime.
I Personally see this as good news for the region.
It's about time that we hear some good news after everything that has happend to the area since the mid 1990's.
It's been rough go for the Miramichi, but it finally looks like there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Miramichi Timberwolves
As a Miramichi Timberwolves fan, I've seen many things over the course of their 9 year history in the Maritime Junior A Hockey League.
The first 3 years were a disaster. Some of the players who were on those teams were not very pretty to watch. God for bid if they ever bring players like back into the orginization.
Some of the trades the orginization made....well...not so good.
This season, however, is a completly different story.
The team is in 2nd place in their division and made a few good trades over the course of the season.
One being in December when they aquired Patrick Louden a Defrenceman for the Restigouch Tigers.
Louden is a gritty defenceman who has already made a positive impact on the team with his hits, smart defensive play and his willingness to drop the gloves.
One trade that I personally think will be a positive impact for the Timberwolves is the aquisition of Defenceman Anthony Pisano from the Pictou County Weeks Crushers for Forward Mike Hynes, a 3rd rounder and future considerations.
Yes, it looks a bit lopsided since Hynes has 27 points in 38 games and is a very skilled players.
Pisano has 1 goal and 8 assists in 29 games with the Crushers, he also has 142 pims.
But look at it this way, The Timberwolves needed to add a Defenceman and did so. Pisano is not flashy whatsoever, but he is decent defensivley and is one of the tougher players in the league.
This move makes the Timberwolves much tougher and improves their defence more than it was before.
Adding a Power Forward to the team would be a great aquisition as well for their playoff run.
With the January 10 Trade Deadline approaching, It will remain to be seen what the Timberwolves, and the other teams will do come Saturday.
The first 3 years were a disaster. Some of the players who were on those teams were not very pretty to watch. God for bid if they ever bring players like back into the orginization.
Some of the trades the orginization made....well...not so good.
This season, however, is a completly different story.
The team is in 2nd place in their division and made a few good trades over the course of the season.
One being in December when they aquired Patrick Louden a Defrenceman for the Restigouch Tigers.
Louden is a gritty defenceman who has already made a positive impact on the team with his hits, smart defensive play and his willingness to drop the gloves.
One trade that I personally think will be a positive impact for the Timberwolves is the aquisition of Defenceman Anthony Pisano from the Pictou County Weeks Crushers for Forward Mike Hynes, a 3rd rounder and future considerations.
Yes, it looks a bit lopsided since Hynes has 27 points in 38 games and is a very skilled players.
Pisano has 1 goal and 8 assists in 29 games with the Crushers, he also has 142 pims.
But look at it this way, The Timberwolves needed to add a Defenceman and did so. Pisano is not flashy whatsoever, but he is decent defensivley and is one of the tougher players in the league.
This move makes the Timberwolves much tougher and improves their defence more than it was before.
Adding a Power Forward to the team would be a great aquisition as well for their playoff run.
With the January 10 Trade Deadline approaching, It will remain to be seen what the Timberwolves, and the other teams will do come Saturday.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Senators Woes
As most of you may know, I cheer for the Ottawa Senators. And the season isn't going so well.
Last night, The Sens lost to the New Jersey Devils 4-3 in Overtime. Ottawa blew three leads in the game of 1-0,2-1 and 3-2.
Why is a team with so much tallent doing so poorly? Well there are several reasons why and one of them is their defence.
Gone are puck moving defenceman Joe Corvo, Wade Redden, Andrej Meszaros and Tom Preissing.
In are Jason Smith, Filip Kuba, Brendan Bell and Alex Picard, who are nowhere near able to move the puck.
Chris Phillips is a -21 and Anton Volchenkov is a -13, no where near the numbers they should be at for being the #1 paring on the team.
Daniel Alfredsson's leadfership has been a question for the past few seasons, Jason Spezza, Dany Heatley and Mike Fisher have no steped up and put up the numbers they should for the amount of money they are being paid.
The lone bright spots on the team are the play of forward Nick Foligno who has more points this season with the Sens than he did all last season and has been working hard all season and defenceman Filip Kuba we leads the team in plus/minus with +8 and in points with 22.
With the way the season is shaping up, it looks like the Sens will more than likely miss the playoffs if they don't turn things around this week.
Even if they do, it may be too late.
If the Sens can't turn things around, Jason Spezza will more than likely be dealt at the trade deadline and the off season will probably be used to rebuilt the team.
Lose it for Tavares anyone?
Last night, The Sens lost to the New Jersey Devils 4-3 in Overtime. Ottawa blew three leads in the game of 1-0,2-1 and 3-2.
Why is a team with so much tallent doing so poorly? Well there are several reasons why and one of them is their defence.
Gone are puck moving defenceman Joe Corvo, Wade Redden, Andrej Meszaros and Tom Preissing.
In are Jason Smith, Filip Kuba, Brendan Bell and Alex Picard, who are nowhere near able to move the puck.
Chris Phillips is a -21 and Anton Volchenkov is a -13, no where near the numbers they should be at for being the #1 paring on the team.
Daniel Alfredsson's leadfership has been a question for the past few seasons, Jason Spezza, Dany Heatley and Mike Fisher have no steped up and put up the numbers they should for the amount of money they are being paid.
The lone bright spots on the team are the play of forward Nick Foligno who has more points this season with the Sens than he did all last season and has been working hard all season and defenceman Filip Kuba we leads the team in plus/minus with +8 and in points with 22.
With the way the season is shaping up, it looks like the Sens will more than likely miss the playoffs if they don't turn things around this week.
Even if they do, it may be too late.
If the Sens can't turn things around, Jason Spezza will more than likely be dealt at the trade deadline and the off season will probably be used to rebuilt the team.
Lose it for Tavares anyone?
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