The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League is ready to party this summer. It was recently announced that the league, which provides some of the best entertainment in the wintertime, has partnered with one of province's most popular summertime events.
The SJHL and Craven Country Jamboree have partnered up, providing benefits for both sides.
Each community in the playoffs will receive prize packages from Craven Country Jamboree and some of the proceeds from the On the Road to Craven promotion tour with Williams and Ree will be donated to the local SJHL team.
"The SJHL is proud to partner with the Craven Country Jamboree," said Bill Chow, president of the SJHL in a press release. "We are particularly thankful that the largest tourist event in the province recognizes the importance of junior A hockey and the communities that we represent. This partnership will result in significant contributions being made to the SJHL Education Fund where many of our hockey players will benefit directly in terms of scholarships and post-secondary assistance."
At the show in July, each SJHL team will be highlighted in front of 25,000 people each day on the main stage. Four teams will be introduced per day with jerseys from each team presented to the music artists to sign. The proceeds raised through the signed jerseys will go towards the SJHL Education Fund.
As excitement continues to happen around the league off the ice, the on-ice product continues to impress as well as teams are in the final month of the season.
In the Source Embroidery Power Rankings, the top four teams remain the same, as Humboldt holds the first spot, Yorkton is in second, Melville is third and Flin Flon fourth.
In fact, the only changes this week were the fifth and sixth ranked teams, Notre Dame and Nipawin, and eighth and ninth ranked teams, Melfort and La Ronge, trading places.
The North Stars held the seventh spot, as one of the hotter teams in January.
In the Canadian Junior Hockey League's Top 20, Humboldt are the highest ranked SJHL team at sixth, a big move from their last ranking of 11th in the country. Yorkton dropped from fourth to 11th. Melville earned an honourable mention this week.
SJHL Player of the Week
Flin Flon had two familiar faces earn player of the week honours once again.
Josh Roach was named the defenceman of the week. He leads the league in defenceman points and after the week was one point back of overall league leader. He notched a goal and six assists in four road games for Flin Flon.
The other Bomber receiving praise this week is Brett Boehm, who was the rookie of the week. He had one goal and three assists in four games. His 20 goals and 23 assists in 40 games puts him eighth in the overall point race and first among first year players.
Humboldt Bronco forward Adam Antkowiak was named the player of the week after earning four goals and four assists in three games. His impressive week pushes his totals up to 17 goals and 24 assists this season.
Dawson MacAuley of the Yorkton Terriers was named the goaltender of the week. MacAuley won both his starts and surrendered zero goals. He has three shutouts this month.
