The Eskasoni Jr. Eagles and Pictou County Scotians will open their Best-of-Seven Rowe Divisional Semi-Final in the 22-23 Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League Playoffs Friday night March 3 in Eskasoni. The opening face-off for Game 1 will be at 7:30 at the Dan K. Stevens Memorial Arena. The Scotians and Jr. Eagles had an interesting six games during their regular season with Eskasoni going 4-2-0 and the Scotians 2-3-1. Eskasoni won games by scores of 5-3, 8-6, 3-2 in a shoot-out and 3-1 while the Scotians won twice by scores of 6-3 and 8-3 and despite not winning the season series, outscored the Jr. Eagles 26-25 in their six games. Special teams saw the Jr. Eagles register seven power-play goals while the Scotians notched five power-play markers as well as a short-handed marker. The two teams racked up 282 minutes in penalties in the six games played between them. The remainder of the series schedule is as follows:
Game 2 — Sun Mar 5 — at Pictou (Trenton) — 6:00 p.m.
Game 3 — Tues Mar 7 — at Eskasoni — 7:30 p.m.
Game 4 — Thurs Mar 9 — at Pictou (Trenton) 6:20 p.m.
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If necessary
Game 5 - Sat Mar 11 — at Eskasoni —— 7:30 p.m.
Game 6 — Sun Mar 12 — at Pictou (Trenton) — 6:00 p.m.
Game 7 — Tues Mar 14 — at Eskasoni — 7:30 p.m.
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