Your Wolverines have locked up 2nd place in the North division and will square off against the 7th place Grande Prairie Storm in the 1st round of the AJHL playoffs.
Regular Season Records
Whitecourt Wolverines: 36-19-3-2 (77 points, 2nd place North)
Grande Prairie Storm: 19-33-5-3 (46 points, 7th place North)
The Wolverines and Storm met 6 times during the regular season, the Wolveriens went 4-1-1 outscoring the Storm 27-23.
Defenceman Caleb MacDonald pushed the scoring pace in the regular season leading the club in points with 59 setting the record for career and single season points by a Wolverines defenceman. Deadline acquisition Tanner Klimpke finished with the team lead in goals finding the back of the net 33 times as a Wolverine and Grizzly.
Wolverines leading scorers: 1st MacDonald 9-50-59, 2nd Klimpke 33-25-58, 3rd Smyl 26-32-58, 4th Komzak 12-40-52, 5th Browne 24-27-51
The Storm are lead by Alex Atwill who they acquired from the Bonnyville Pontiacs mid-season. He finished the year over a PPG with GP scoring 16 goals and adding 25 assists in 38 games. In net the Storm have the reigning goaltender of the year Connor Mackenzie, he tied the league lead for save percentage at a .929% and finished 7th in GAA.
Storm leading scorers: 1st Atwill 19-30-49, 2nd Copetti 16-25-41, 3rd Peters 18-19-37, 4th Toews 13-23-36, 5th Demers 13-18-31
The first two home games go this Friday and Saturday get your tickets here: https://tickets.whitecourtwolverines.ca/
Complete Round 1 schedule:
March 10th @ Home – 7pm
March 11th @ Home – 7pm
March 14th @ GP – 7pm
March 15th @ GP – 7pm
March 17th @ Home -7pm *If necessary*
March 19th @ GP -7pm *If necessary*
March 22nd @ Home -7pm *If necessary*