Sunday, February 19, 2012

Bruins and Red Wing Notes

The Estevan Bruins will wrap up their regular season tonight when they host the Weyburn Red Wings at Spectra Place. (5:50 pregame on CJ1280 and discoverestevan.com.) Here's a few things to keep in mind for this evening's game.

-- A win by the Bruins would give them a record above .500. The Bruins have a record of 28-27-0-2. Last year the Bruins ended up with a record of 29-23-4-2.

-- The Bruins will be looking to even up the season series against Weyburn. The Red Wings lead the series 4-3 right now with the Bruins holding a 2-1 record against them at Spectra Place.

-- On Friday the Bruins called up a pair of Moose Jaw Generals (Dylan Johner and Darcy Deroose) and according to Bruins Director of Player Personnel Rick Oakes tweet this morning, the Bruins will be calling up a pair of Tisdale Trojans for tonight's game as local product Rhett Handley and Connor Venne will be in the lineup for the Bruins. Venne has 11 goals and 18 assists for the Trojans this season while Handley has 12 goals and 5 assists with 62 penalty minute.

-- Dylan Smith will win the scoring crown for the Bruins for the second time in his three year career with the Bruins. (Smith had 38 points in 45 games back in 2009-10) Smith has a chance to pick up 40 goals on the season with 37 goals coming into tonight's game. Calder Neufeld is second on the team with 34 goals.

-- The Bruins top two rookies in scoring will be out tonight as Taylor Reich will end his rookie campaign with 32 points in 49 games and Austin Yano will end off with 27 points. Tyler Kauk isn't too far behind with 23 points on the season.

-- The Bruins will be auctioning off  9 of their special jerseys today (pictured above) with the proceeds going to Hillcrest Early Learning Centre and Pure Energy Learning Centre.

-- That's it for now. Since I've interviewed all of the players for the intermissions this season, I'm going to have a little fun for today's game as I will be doing an interview with Dylan Smith and Calder Neufeld. Lucas Stubel will be joining me on color, fresh off Bienfait's 9-4 win Balcarres last night in their provincial series last night. So tune in pregame show once again at 5:50.

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