On the Eve of Opening Night with the Estevan Bruins

After six months of waiting, the CanElson Drilling Estevan Bruins will open up the 2012-13 season on the road in Melville when they square off with the Millionaires. Bruins Head Coach and GM Keith Cassidy is looking forward to getting the season after spending the last couple of weeks with the preseason and training camp. "It's certainly an exciting time of year going through camp to see what your team will shape up like. It's another thing into the real games and seeing these guys produce."

With the injury to Steven Glass the Bruins made a trade and acquired 20 year old goalie Curtis Martinu from the Trenton Golden Hawks of the OJHL. Martinu spent time last season with the Drayton Valley Thunder of the AJHL last year. He's a tall goalie listed at 6'4" and is expected to arrive in time for a morning skate  and is expected to be in the Bruins lineup tonight in Melville.

The Bruins have a roster tonight will feature a lot of the lines that we saw in the preseason. Hudson Morrison will start on the wing of a line with Cole Olsen and Calder Neufeld. Cassidy feels Morrison has been a good fit with Olson and Neufeld and will get the first shot of playing on that top line at least for the first couple of games.

On the blueline the top two pairings will be familiar for Bruin fans. Tyler Kauk and Austin Yano along with Connor Milligan and Tyler Poskus will form the Bruins top four. Both pairings were together last season and that's one of the reasons why Cassidy has decided to go with the those two pairings to start the new season. He says the 5th and 6th defencemen in the lineup will be decided after the morning skate.

Tonight's game may be a preview of the Sherwood Conference as many people around the SJHL have predicted the Bruins and Millionaires will be meeting each other in the Conference Finals. .

Opening faceoff in Melville is 7:30. The Bruins will open their home schedule tomorrow night at Spectra Place. The pregame festivities will begin at 7:00 with fireworks, video and music. The puck drops at 7:30.

Cassidy comments about tonight's opening game in Melville.