Week 13

1) Drake (handled their business vs a good Balcarres team. They are gamers in playoffs. Bring on the Flyers!)
2) Wadena (made a good Theodore team look bad. Big, bruising, fast, and insanely talented. Outlook will have their hands full)
3) Kenaston (looking strong in round 1 of SVHL, but it was the Bruins.)
4) Wilkie (looking good in league, and took out the Delsile Bruins easily.)
5) Milestone (Keep on keeping on in the QVHHL, but lets see what happens vs Drake)
6) Hafford (hell of a comeback on the road to win their provincial series)
7) Davidson (moving on in Prov C, and beat a strong Redvers team to do it. Looking like a dark horse in LLHL)
8) Carnduff (finished off on an 11 game W streak in Big 6)
9) Grenfell (beat the Rocanville Tigers in game 1, could go a long ways in Prov B)
10) Macklin (first in the SWHL)

HMs: Theodore (Undefeated in the Sask East. But hammered by Wadena and down main goalie) Meota (undefeated in the SPHL) Cabri (1st in WMHL) and Assiniboia (1st in NHL)

Missed Wadena- make them 7 and move everyone down - I didn’t think they’d dominate Theodore like that

League rankings*
1-Milestone
2-Kenaston
3-Balcarres
4-Drake
5-wilkie
6-Wadena
7-Outlook
8-Foam Lake
9-Kyle
10-Grenfell

Drake played balcarres with their provincial team and only squeaked by balcarres league team minus their starting goalie and Jared Martin.

Kenaston has their post Christmas lull and are back

Outlook on the rise

Kyle is Kyle, always there when it counts

I am sticking with league rosters only

Definitely commented wrong when I said I’m using league rosters only. I’d rather try to account for provincial changes to league rosters. Top 10 would be boring otherwise.

I knew Drake picked up a couple for provincials. I took that into account. Nothing says if Goodman and Durand weren’t there that the other Drake forwards wouldn’t have gotten more ice time and scored those goals. On the other hand there is no doubt adding two more studs gives you an advantage. Everyone is going to have an opinion on how big that advantage was. Both games were close but imo that doesn’t tell me that if Drake didn’t have Goodman and Durand that Balcarres would have won. If we don’t use any of the provincial action to compare teams if they add one or two players I can go that direction too - I’ll only move my teams based on their league playoff results. I’d rather handicap teams based on some provincial play while accounting for team changes and my opinion of their advantage in provincials.

The Wadena/Outlook series is almost impossible to handicap. The Outlook team is such a diversion from their league team it’s too hard to compare how the Outlook league team would have done against Wadena. I’ll give Wadena credit - they did better against Theodore than I thought they would(not over yet but pretty likely). Definitely changed my opinion on them - moved them into being able to compete with the middle of the SVHL(Eston/Outlook/Loreburn/Dinsmore/Central Butte)