Congrats goes out to the Welland Undertakers for being our Regular Season Champs going into the playoffs. They were awarded first pick of Goalies through out the playoffs and WNHL Championship and some cheeseburgers at a later game.

Goalie Picks – Welland Undertakers – Young / Atlas Steelers – Tommy / Welland StelCobras – Dean / Welland River Rats – Deraz

Also check the schedule due to the Welland Main Arena closing early this year the following changes have been made

March 28th – The Welland Game will be at 7:30pm at the Welland Youth Arena

April 4th – The Welland Game will be at 10pm at the Welland Youth Arena

April 11th – The Welland Game will be at 8pm at the Welland Youth Arena and The Port Game will be at 9pm at the Welland Youth Arena for the last Wednesday of the year.

Please mark this on your schedule for later in the playoffs…..Thank you

Playoff Time is almost here and the WNHL Playoff Schedule has been posted. It will be a round robin with referees, 2 points for a win, 1 point for tie just like the regular season. Each team will play each other twice. We will also have a timekeeper and be playing 2 10 minute periods and with a 15 minute 3rd period stop time throughout. We will be playing the puck off the mesh like Regular Season and Blue Line Icing.

The regular season standings will dictate the goalies being selected, 1st overall will get the first pick at the goalie and it will go down accordingly. Each team will have same goalie for the entire playoff and at the WNHL Championship at the Meridian Centre on April 14th 2018.

Please note the April 11th Games are both in Welland at a Special End of the Playoffs Time of 8pm and 9pm at the Welland Youth Arena. I think this will be a great way to end the season and find out who will be in the facing off in the Championship Game and the Consolation Game.

Always a pleasure and let’s have a great playoff to cap off a great year!

Kelly Jones

Hey WNHL….Mike Law who is on the call-up list for the WNHL is running a tournament in his cousin’s honour. Please read the information and if you are interested in putting in a team. All contact information is below.

Jeff Yungblut was a special man whose loss was devastating not only to his family and friends, but the community as a whole. Jeff was a volunteer Fire Captain at Thorold Station 4, coached minor hockey in Thorold, operated his construction business throughout the Niagara Region and was involved in the family farm.  Jeff loved the game of hockey and was eager to help anyone in need, so what better way to honor him than to host a hockey tournament in his name and donate the proceeds to local students trying to better their future.

Applications are now being accepted for the 3^rd Annual Jeff Yungblut Memorial Tournament.  Your participation will help to achieve the goals of the tournament; the award of one or two education bursary’s to graduating students from Thorold Secondary School pursuing further education in one of four (4) disciplines; Carpentry, Sports Management, Firefighting/EMS or Agriculture and to help youth achieve volunteer hours through community involvement.

The tournament will consist of the following divisions;

Fire and Emergency Services

Female or Co-ed

Under 21

Open A

Open B; depending on teams possibly Open C

NOTE: All players under 18 years must abide by OMHA players rules; full face mask mandatory.

All divisions are no slap shots and non-body contact.

Cost will be $850.00 per team, with a guaranteed four (4) games. This year we have initiated an early bird registration of $800.00… registration must be received on or before February 21, 2018.  Only when registration money is received is your spot held, deposits of 40% are acceptable to hold your spot with the remainder required to be paid one (1) week prior. Cheques made payable to Jeff Yungblut Memorial Tournament.

First games will start 6:00 p.m. on Thursday night (generally local teams first), Female/Co-ed and Under 21 division final games will be held on Saturday. Other divisions games will start on Friday games will continue until finals on Sunday afternoon.

Please contact the undersigned with any enquiries. We hope to hear from you soon!

Kory Yungblut                          Jennifer Yungblut Leriger                   Jim & Nancy Yungblut

jymemorial@hotmail.com     jennleriger@yahoo.com                     905-892-2865

Phone/text 905-933-6937       Phone/text 289-821-3298

Visit our tournament website:

jymemorialtourney.simplesite.com