The Newfoundland and Labrador Major Midget Hockey League opens its playoffs in metro St. John’s this weekend.
Both semifinals are best-of-seven affairs, with the first two games slated this weekend. After that, the league breaks for two weeks for the 2019 Canada Winter Games, in which some players from each team are participating.
The playoffs resume the March 1-3 weekend.
The first-place East Coast Blizzard play host to the fourth-place Tri-Pen Osprey 7 p.m. Saturday and 11:30 a.m. Sunday. Both games are at the Goulds Arena. Meanwhile, second-place St. John’s Maple Leafs entertain the third-place Western Kings 8 o’clock Saturday night at The Glacier II in Mount Pearl, and 11 a.m. Sunday at the Southern Shore Arena in Mobile.
Newfoundland and Labrador Major Midget Hockey League
Final 2018-19 standings
Standings
Team GP W L S/OL Pts
East Coast 32 22 10 0 44
St. John’s 32 20 11 1 41
Western 32 12 19 1 25
Tri-Pen 32 10 19 3 23
Scoring leaders
Player (Team) GP G A Pts
Luke Akerman (TP) 31 27 22 49
Regan Seymour (SJ) 31 15 23 38
Nathan Kelly (ECB) 30 14 24 38
Mark Rumsey (TP) 18 15 15 30
Brandon Knight (SJ) 31 16 12 28
Logan Brothers (SJ) 31 15 12 27
Drew Langdon (W) 31 16 11 27
Tanner Humber-Dredge (SJ) 31 11 15 26
Mason Campbell (W) 31 16 9 25
Paul Norman (SJ) 25 5 19 24
Goaltending leaders
Player (Team) GAA Sv% GP W-L
Andrew d’Entremont (ECB) 1.66 .945 15 13-2
Evan Martin (SJ) 2.68 .908 18 9-8
Lucas Park (W) 2.71 .910 16 9-9
Andrew Curtis (SJ) 2.14 .932 13 8-4
William Dyke (ECB) 2.28 .924 15 7-8
Riley Petten (TP) 3.20 .905 17 7-10
Ben Williams (TP) 4.94 .874 15 5-10
