The Hanover Tache Junior Hockey League final is now a best-of-five series. Owen Blocker had two goals and an assist as the Springfield Xtreme downed the Lorette Comets 4-2 Sunday in Ile des Chenes. Brody Welsh also scored for the Xtreme who evened the best-of-seven at a game a piece. Craig Patton and Noah Keating replied for the Comets. Springfield's Dylan Kizlik made 36 saves while Lorette netminder Owen McMillan faced 33 shots. Game three goes Tuesday in Oakbank.

 

The St. Malo Warriors lost 6-4 to Arborg. Jack Einarson scored five times for the Ice Dawgs who now lead the Capital Region Junior Hockey League's best-of-seven semifinal three games to none. Teagan Fillion had a pair of goals for the Warriors. The rest went to Ashton Dubois and Thomas Maynard. Game four goes Thursday night in St. Malo.

 

The Manitoba U18 AAA Hockey League semifinals are set. The Eastman Selects will face the Winnipeg Wild and the Brandon Wheat Kings will meet the Parkland Rangers. The Rangers downed the Yellowhead Chiefs 3-1 Sunday in Dauphin and took the best-of-five quarterfinal three games to one. The Selects swept the Winnipeg Bruins in three straight in their series.

 

Macdonald beat Thompson 7-1 in the gold medal game at Hockey Manitoba's Provincial U13 Rural AA Championship in Niverville. Sagkeeng hosted the Provincial U18 Rural A & B Championships. Rat River downed Niverville 4-1 in the Rural A gold medal game and Steinbach beat Pinaymootang 6-4 in the Rural B gold medal game.

 

Pierre Luc-Dubois scored 2:25 into overtime to lift the Winnipeg Jets past the St. Louis Blues 4-3. Nikolaj Ehlers, Mark Scheifele and Kyle Connor with his team leading 37th of the season also scored for the Jets who picked up four of a possible six points on their three-game road trip. Winnipeg goaltender Connor Hellebuyck made 28 saves.

 

Brad Gushue is a Brier champion for the fourth time. Gushue defeated Kevin Koe of Alberta 9-8 in an extra end Sunday night in the Brier final in Lethbridge. Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant and Geoff Walker are the first Wild Card team to win the Brier. Gushue played the last three games without Nichols who tested positived for COVID-19 on Friday. The win lifted Gushue into a tie with Koe, Regina’s Ernie Richardson and Edmonton’s Randy Ferbey & Kevin Martin as skips with four national men’s titles. Gushue, Nichols, Gallant and Walker will represent Canada at the 2022 World Men's Curling Championship in Las Vegas from April 2nd - 10th.