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NORTH WINNIPEG
SATELLITES
After four years in the
league, all-star defenseman
Howard Grieves has com-
pleted a tremendous Jr. B
career with the Satellites and
GM Cliff Malzensky admits
he’s not sure if he’ll be able to
replace him.
However, on the upside,
Malzensky has most of his top
scorers back for 20 17-18.
“I have my leading scorer,
Nico Lisi, back and so is our
No. 3 scorer Braden Zamrykut
and our No. 4 scorer Nathan
Jones,” Malzensky said. “The
key to our success this season
might be our 17-year-old goal-
tender Wyatt Emes. He was
so good last year that without
him, we would have been
nowhere last year.”
Emes, who was a 16-year-
old last season went 11-12-1
with a 4.32 goals against aver-
age and a .887 save percent-
age, and kept the Satellites in
a number of games.
“We have some good young
prospects, but it’s not going
to be easy replacing Grieves,”
Malzensky said. “But we have
some good young prospects
and with players like Glen
Paupenekis, Payton Boguski
and Parker Cassie back, we
should be in good shape.”
PEGUIS JUNIORS
The Ice Dawgs Score
ARBORG ICE DAWGS
The Arborg Ice Dawgs had a
tremendous season in 2016-
17, finishing with a record of
24-10-0-0, first in the Central.
Arborg lost the league final
in six games to Peguis, but
reached the Bronze Medal
game at the Keystone Cup,
which was held right in their
own barn.
This year, club President
Ivan Gulay has found himself
a new GM in Scott Bobbee and
a new/old head coach in Jim
Wierbicki, who has already
won two KJHL champion-
ships, so the IceDawgs will
pretty much pick up where
they left off.
“Most of the age eligible
players have committed to us
for the new season,” Gulay said.
“We have lost goalie Dylan
Ossachuk, who has moved on
to Jr. A with Thief River Falls,
so we’re on the lookout for a
new goalie this year.
“But we will be very com-
petitive once again and we’ll
have a lot of good, talented
local guys, as well.”
Leading scoring Clint
Torfason (28 goals and 65
points in 34 games), No. 2
scorer Colton Davies and No.
4 scorer Derric Gulay and all
eligible to return but the Ice
Dawgs will lose 26-goal
scorer Spencer Kilbrei and
No. 1 defenseman Ryan
Pochailo. There is no doubt,
the Dawgs will be in the
hunt at the end.
“What we want to do this
year is to get faster,” said
Bruce Sinclair, manager of
the Juniors. “When we played
in the Keystone Cup, these
teams from Alberta and
Saskatchewan were a lot faster
than us. We have to get to that
level this year.
“I think we have a chance to
repeat as champions,” Sinclair
added. “We only lose four
players, (Tyler) Woodhouse,
(Theoren) Spence, (Waylon)
Nault and (Devun) Garson.
Those are big shoes to fill, but
we have the young players
who can step up. I think we’re
going to take a lot of A.P.s this
season and get a really good
look at our young players.
“For us, in order to repeat,
we need to make sure that
(Luke) Penner is back. We ex-
pect him back this year and we
need him because he is a very
good goaltender and we know
you can’t win without
great goaltending.”
Outstanding North Winnipeg
Satellites goalie Wyatt Emes
Devun Groot of the Juniors
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