The Capstone Cole Harbour Colts were on the road in Windsor Friday Dec 3 to play the Valley Maple Leafs where they recorded their 4th consecutive win, 5-2 over the Leafs.  The Colts struck first on a goal off the stick of Will MacRae in the opening period.  In the second frame, Patrick Oxner had the Colts up 2-0 just 2:37 in before the Leafs who were outshot 2-1 by the Colts 51-25, struck for a pair of goals from Dawson Lavers and Andrew McCarron with his 9th of the season to knot the game 2-2 after forty minutes.  Special teams took over in the third for the Colts as Brayden Hooper-Richard scored the game winner - shorthanded  with 6:36 left in the contest to put the Colts up 3-2.  Brady Crossley made it 4-2 with 3:09 left and then Tyler Puma made the final 5-2 when he scored the Colts third unanswered goal of the third.  Cooper Puma collected a pair of assists for the Colts to give him his 10th and 11th on the season.  The Colts are now 7-5-0 on the season, good for fourth place in the Fred Fox Division but trail the East Hants Penguins by a pair of points for third place and the Liverpool Privateers by three points.  In fact they are only 7 back of the 1st place Sackville Blazers while holding a commanding 5 game in hand on the Blazers.  Elsewhere Friday night……..

The Capstone Cole Harbour Colts handed the 1st Place Sackville Blazers their third consecutive loss Monday evening at the Sackville Arena.  Both teams were finishing a 3 games in 4 nights stand which began with the Colts defeating the Blazers 4-2 at C.F.B. Shearwater Friday evening.  In the first period Zephrin Hachey scored for the Blazers at the 10:54 mark and exactly seven minutes later with slightly less than 4 minutes left in the first period, Brayden Hooper-Richard scored the first of his to goals on the evening.  Richard gave the Colts a 2-1 lead in the second and then Cooper Puma made it 3-1 Colts after two.  The closest Sackville could get after this was a marker from Spencer Langille-Crowe with 18 seconds left in regulation.  The Blazers outshot the Colts 50-45.  The Colts have now won 2 of 3 against the Blazers this season and do not clash again until Mon  Feb 28 in Sackville.  In the three games played between the two clubs to date this season, both teams have scored 9 goals against each other. Brady Crossley added a pair of assists for the Colts who improved to 6-5-0 while winning their 3rd consecutive game and 12 points, 2 back of third place East Hants in the Fred Fox Division. The Blazers are now 10-6-1 for 2 points.  The Blazers are now preparing for a huge game with the 7-3-1 Port Hawkesbury Strait Pirates Mon Dec 6 at 7:30 in Sackville.  The Colts meanwhile have 4 games remaining on their schedule prior to the Christmas break.  They will play on the road this weekend Friday, Dec 3 and Sat Dec 4 in the Valley and in Liverpool Saturday Dec 5 before returning home for two games against Cumberland Fri Dec 10 and Sat Dec 11 against the Valley Maple Leafs - both games at C.F.B. Shearwater.

The Pictou County Scotians are on the move and Sunday Night Nov 28 at home in Trenton won their 7th game and their 5th in their past 6 in a shoot-out 4-3 win over the Membertou Jr. Miners.  The Scotians Hayden Burgess opened the game’s scoring short-handed for the Scotians with under 4 minutes to play in the opening period but Nathaniel Fuller tied it for the Jr. Miners with 1:28 left in the opening frame.  The second period was almost identical but this time Fuller put the Jr. Miners up 2-1 on the power-play before Matt Chediac tied the game at 2 for the Scotians with 1:58 showing on the clock for the duration of the second period.  The third period saw the Scotians go up 3-2 on a goal from Thomas Kennaley before Fuller finished with his hat-trick as well as his 11th goal of the season with just 2:30 left in regulation to once again knot the game, this time at 3-3.  Alex MacKinnon finished with assists on all 3 Jr. Miner goals and Pictou outshot the Jr. Miners 43-30.  The sudden-death was scoreless as were the Jr. Miners on the three shots they took in the shoot-out.  The Scotians Connor Aucoin scored on his first shot for Pictou and it proved to be the only goal of the six shots as Matt Carson and Kennaley both missed.  The Scotians are now 7-4-0 on the season and 1 point out of third place and 2 points out of second place in the Sid Rowe Division while Membertou finished with 1 of a possible 4 points over the weekend and now stand at 7-4-2 for 16 points.

The AA Munro Antigonish Jr. Bulldogs found themselves in quite a hockey game Friday Nov 26 in Lantz but still managed to go up 3-0 and then hang on in the third period for a 4-2 win over the East Hants Penguins.  The Jr. Bulldogs with the win increased their impressive record on 2021-2022 to 13-0-1 for 27 points.  The Pens are now 7-6-0 on the season.  The two teams played two fairly even periods but the Jr. Bulldogs were better at keeping the playing moving in the offensive zone than the Pens for periods of time.  Sam Mattie and Fearghus MacDonald went in 2 on 1 but MacDonald could not complete a pass from Mattie and the puck went wide of the net.  Back down the ice and the Pens Evan McHenry rang a shot off the Jr. Bulldogs crossbar. The Bulldogs scored first as Ben MacLellan connected with a wrist shot from the blue line.

With the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League having surpassed the 1/4 mark of their 2021-22 Regular season and with some teams closing in on the half-way mark, one always sees the scores and of course the Goals Forward and Goals Against for each team in the standings.  However it not that often when teams offence on a per game basis is matched up with other teams in the league, so today we will look at goals being scored per game and goals being allowed per game by individual teams.