Jan 19, 2024 - Steele at Weeks NSU18MHL

[Petter]

The upcoming Atlantic Championship hosts will visit the previous Atlantic Champions tonight in the Pictou County Wellness Centre.

Steele Subaru are a powerful club this season, and are coming off of a weekend where they raised a trophy, winning the 2024 Ice Jam.  Weeks started the season slowly, but have been improving of late, and are coming off of an appearance in the playoffs at the Ice Jam, where they beat a perennially strong program from Saskatchewan, the Notre Dame Hounds then lost to the Halifax MacDonald's.

NOTE:  All stats used in this preview are based on regular season statistics from the league website.

League record:
Steele - 23-5-0 (46 points, 2nd place)
Weeks - 9-19-2 (20 points, 7th place)

Head to Head: (Steele lead 4-0) (Again, I know there is another meeting at the Ice Jam, but I am only including regular season stats here)
Oct 19 - Steele win 6-0 in Pictou County
Oct 29 - Steele win 4-3 in Pictou County
Nov 4 - Steele win 8-1 in Dartmouth 
Jan 7 - Steele win 4-2 in Dartmouth
Tonight in Pictou County

Special teams matchups:
When Steele have the PP:
Steele PP (20.0%, 2nd in league) vs Weeks PK (82.9%, 4th in league)
When the Weeks have the PP:
Weeks PP (25.0%, 1st in league) vs Steele PK (86.5, 2nd in league)

Scoring:
Steele GFPG (Goals for per game) - 4.6 (1st)
Weeks GFPG - 2.7 (8th)

Steele GAPG (Goals against per game) - 1.9 (1st)
Weeks GAPG - 3.8 (7th)

Leaders:
Goals
Steele
Aiden O'Donnell - 21
Brady Burke - 18
Weeks
Chris Jorden & Kieran Sears - 13 each
Rylan Sutherland - 12

Assists
Steele
Brennan O'Donnell - 24
Aiden O'Donnell - 19
Weeks
Ryan Vohra - 16
Rylan Sutherland - 13

Points
Steele
Aiden O'Donnell - 40
Brady Burke - 34
Weeks 
Rylan Sutherland - 25
Ryan Vohra - 22

Goals Against Average (Qualified Goalies)
Steele
Brandon Lavoie - 1.71
Weeks
Colby Brown - 3.55 (Sam Berthiaume 1.64 in 2 games played)

Save Percentage
Steele
Brandon Lavoie - .930
Weeks
Caleb Oulton - .894 (Sam Berthiaume .949 in 2 games played)

This game WILL be streaming LIVE and FOR FREE through PS&S on ao.live tonight

[Petter]

We may be a little late getting started tonight, as the tournament running this weekend (Sobeys Cup, which we are not streaming) is a bit behind schedule.
I will post updates as we get closer to game time to let you know if/by how much we will be delayed.

[Petter]

If I had to guess, we will start warm-up around 7:15, and have puck drop at 7:45pm.

NOTE: THAT IS MY GUESS, NOT AN OFFICIAL TIME.

We are delayed due to the Sobeys Cup (which we are not streaming) running behind schedule.

[Petter]

Pretty entertaining first period of play.  Blake Manders opens the scoring for Steele Subaru.  I wish I had the ability to retain details of these events.  It gets frustrating not being able to rely on your memory like you used to.

Ben Poehl scored on the power play to tie up the game.  That one I can't tell you about because I was looking down to confirm Steele's penalty kill stats, as we were just 7 seconds into their first attempted penalty kill of the night.

Tucker Makinen was, as always, dangerous against the Weeks.  He seems to always have a good game whenever he is in this building (hey Crushers, think about that...).

Shots in period 1 finish 10-9 for the visitors.

[tb1990]

Jan 19, 2024 20:15:55 GMT -4 Petter said:

Pretty entertaining first period of play.  Blake Manders opens the scoring for Steele Subaru.  I wish I had the ability to retain details of these events.  It gets frustrating not being able to rely on your memory like you used to.

Ben Poehl scored on the power play to tie up the game.  That one I can't tell you about because I was looking down to confirm Steele's penalty kill stats, as we were just 7 seconds into their first attempted penalty kill of the night.

Tucker Makinen was, as always, dangerous against the Weeks.  He seems to always have a good game whenever he is in this building (hey Crushers, think about that...).

Shots in period 1 finish 10-9 for the visitors.

Makinen is a Truro Bearcat prospect so you might be seeing more of him sooner than you think lol. Great recap