The Satellites are looking to bounce back after a dissapointing weekend. The team lost 10-2 to the Daysland Northstars on Saturday night.
The Satellites will be hitting the road for the final 2 games of the regular season. They play the Big Valley Oilkings on Friday night and the Hardisty Stampeders on Saturday.

vs Daysland Northstars at 8:30

Tofield continues to move up in the standing as they are currently riding a season high 4 game win streak.  Wednesday night Tofield hosted the Daysland Northstars which has always been a challenge to say the least.  Tofield started the scoring halfway through the first when Jesse Van Dalfsen netting his first of three goals on the night 9:12 into the opening stanza.  Tofield found them selves down 3-1 early in the second but managed to claw back with 4 unanswered goals in the second.  Daysland’s Colin Zimmer scored early in the 3rd to pull the game within one.  Tofield got their insurance goal back when Chris Findlay found the back of the net with 5 minutes to go.  The end of the game proved to be exciting as Tofield took a late slashing penalty with 2 minutes to go and give Daysland the opportunity they needed to get back into the game.  The Northstars managed to make it a one goal game with less than a minute to go but that was as close as they would get.

Boxscore for Game- http://www.brhl.ca/leagues/hockey_boxscores.cfm?clientID=4575&leagueID=15299&gameID=1015993

The Satellites headed south on Friday night to face off against the Sedgewick Sabres.  This game was huge for both teams due to the fact that if Tofield won they would take the season series with their divisional rivals as well as move into 3rd place in the league.  The Satellites ramped up the action quickly with a goal by Brett Holmberg 24 seconds into the game.  With so much riding on the game the emotions were high and the intensity was even higher.  The game was fast paced back and forth action all night leaving the teams tied 3-3 after one.  Tofield scored the lone goal in the second to take the lead going into the third.  The third period was just as expected.  Sedgewick tallied the first goal of the period to tie the game back up.  Tofield potted their third powerplay goal of the game to go back ahead.  With only 1:37 left in the game scott effert tied the game up with a slapshot just as he crossed the blue line.  That would force the game into overtime.  Sedgewick would force the play into Tofield’s zone applying pressure but Brett Holmberg managed to spring a flying Van Dalfsen on a break away.  His stick has been hot as of late and that didnt end here when he buried the backhand shot and won it for the team.   With the overtime loss it gives sedgewick an extra point in the standings and moves Tofield into fifth place 1 point behind Hardisty and Sedgewick but the Satellites still have a game in hand on both of those teams.

Boxscore for game- http://www.brhl.ca/leagues/hockey_boxscores.cfm?clientID=4575&leagueID=15299&gameID=1033324

With that in mind tonights game against Big Valley is another big game for the club.  A win tonight would give them sole posession of third place in the league.  Game time is 8:30 at the Tofield Arena.

The Tofield Satellites would like to wish everyone a

Merry Christmas
&
Happy New Year!

After gaining a victory against Irma on Wednesday night and getting back to .500 the club traveled down south to try and get above the .500 mark for the first time this season. 

Tofield went into the 1st intermission  tied 1-1 with the 1-9 Oil Kings knowing that they had just got away with a bad period.  Even though just slightly being out shot 14-10, 10 of those were scoring opportunities.  Goaltender Jeremy Thom made some lights out saves to keep his team in the game and lose their “bus legs”. 

Unfortunately the Satellites didn’t get the memo as they continued to play sloppy in their own end and not capitalizing on the ongoing mistakes made by the Oil Kings.  After losing their composure late in the third Big Valley managed to bury one late in the third on the power play to take the lead 3-2.  In the dying seconds of the second and an obvious interference call that was missed the Oil Kings went down to take a commanding 2 goal lead.

Tofield managed to get the cobwebs out of their heads and play some hockey.  They scored 4 unanswered goals all the way through the third to get them up 6-4.  An undisciplined penalty late in the third allowed Big Valley the opportunity late in the game.  They seemed to have made it a one goal game but their PP goal with 1:31 left in the game was disallowed.  Big Valley kept the pressure up as they managed to pot one with just under a minute left to make it interesting.  This would be all she wrote as Tofield stays put in 6th place with games at hand on everybody except for daysland above them. 

Tofield goes into the christmas break 5-4.  Not nearly as expected with the off season pickups over the summer.  “this is a new team, and it will take time to start meshing”  Tofield’s captain Brian Tavoroli mentioned.

Game Stats-

Goaltending- Tofield: Jeremy Thom 38/43  0.884%

                            Big Valley:Joel Richard 30/36  0.833%

Power Play-Tofield: 1/6, Big Valley 2/8

1st STAR	2nd STAR	3rd STAR
Tofield Satellites Brian Tavaroli	Big Valley Oil Kings Daniel McSween	Tofield Satellites Fraser Regan

Satellites take down a weakened Ace’s lineup 10-1.  In what is usually a high tempo, hard nosed battle between the two teams Tofield took advantage of a roster that needed to be filled with 2 midget call ups. 

Tofield outshot their opponent 48-24 and went 1-8 on the powerplay.  Chris Stetsko, Tyler Lewis, Brian Tavaroli, Ryan Olson, and Fraser Reagan all led the way with 3 points on the night.

The Satellites dont get off easy with their next game in Tofield on Saturday night against the 4-3 Sedgewick Sabres. Tofield is sporting a 3-0 record at home this year and hopes to keep that streak going while Sedgewick is 1-3 on the road.  Game time is 8:30.

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The Tofield Satellites are on their way to Provost to play against the Blades. The game time is  8:30 stay tuned for score updates throughout the game.

The score is 0-0 after the 1st period! Chris Roy is in. Goal for tofield tonight!

Provost is leading 3-1 after 2 periods. Fraser Reagan from Carlson and Van Dalfsen scored the only goal for Tofield.

The final score was 6-1 for Provost. Tonight the satellites play at home against the Irma Aces at 8:30.