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This year, the St. Paul and District Minor Hockey Association will say goodbye to three long-standing members who combined for nearly 40 years of volunteer work with the organization. The former president, and most recent secretary of St.

Bonnyville Pontiacs captain and St. Paul native Locke Muller followed up Friday’s series tying 4-3 loss to the Whitecourt Wolverines by saying he will need to be the most physical player on the ice in order to regain the edge in the series.

It's onto the next one for the Jr. A Pontiacs, as Bonnyville punched its ticket to the second round of the 2012-13 AJHL playoffs with two decisive wins in Drayton Valley over the weekend to take the first-round series 3-1.

St. Paul and District Minor Hockey held its second annual Timbits Future All-Star Game at the Clancy Richard Arena on Friday night, offering a night of big league thrills to the organization’s youngest group of skaters.

The season is over for the Saddle Lake Warriors. After a hard-fought seven game series with the Vegreville Rangers, the Warriors came up short against the Cold Lake Ice, falling in four straight games to meet the end of their post-season run.

The Jr. A Pontiacs came out flat in game two of the team's first round best-of-five playoff series with Drayton Valley, losing 2-0 to the Thunder on Wednesday in Bonnyville.

It took nearly five periods of physical, hard-nosed hockey, but the Bonnyville Jr. A Pontiacs finally put game one of its best-of-five first round series with Drayton Valley to bed, winning 3-2 late in the second overtime period.

The Bonnyville Jr.

Four local athletes from the North East Alberta Track Club traveled to Edmonton last weekend to take part in the Provincial Indoor Championships, with Hayley Lucas and Nicole Kitt bringing home hardware.