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The Saddle Lake Warriors continued their dominant streak in the Northeastern Alberta Junior B Hockey League with a 4-2 victory over the Lloydminster Bandits on Friday night.

The better teams won this weekend, as the Bonnyville Jr. A Pontiacs fell flat Friday and Saturday night, losing 4-1 to the Grande Prairie Storm, then dropping a 5-3 contest to the Whitecourt Wolverines the next night.

Dust off that jersey and start up the fantasy leagues, hockey is back! Canada had a less than stellar performance at this year’s World Junior Ice Hockey Championship, falling 6-5 to Russia in overtime of the bronze medal game on Saturday.

The Saddle Lake Warriors (5-16-1) extended their lead on the St. Paul Canadiens (3-21-1) to four points, defeating them by 6-3 on home ice Saturday evening. After 10 minutes of defensively driven play, St.

Bonnyville Jr. A Pontiacs fans were getting restless. The Pontiacs played only two games at home during the entire month of December. Then came the two-week-long hockey-free holiday break.

It’s finally arrived, the IIHF World Junior Championships, and I couldn’t be happier to drag myself out of bed at 2 a.m. on a publication day.

It’s only a few days from Christmas, its 20 below zero, and I’m thinking about the boys of summer.

Playing in their final two games at the R.J. Lalonde Arena before the holiday break, the Bonnyville Jr. A Pontiacs players did all they could to put on a good show for the home crowd.

The Saddle Lake Warriors managed to pick up an important three points last week, but the marathon of hockey that saw them compete four times in five days was certainly no easy task.

The St. Paul Regional High School Saints hosted its annual invitational basketball tournament this weekend, with the boys team claming the championship and the girls earning a third place finish.