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Six teams move on in Whitehorse oldtimers playoff action

Six teams have moved on after the first round of Whitehorse Oldtimers hockey playoff action wrapped up Sunday night at the Canada Games Centre.

By Submitted on April 8, 2024

Six teams have moved on after the first round of Whitehorse Oldtimers hockey playoff action wrapped up Sunday night at the Canada Games Centre.

Titanium Storage and Yukon Inn booked their second round dates with wins on Sunday; Kilrich moved on with a Saturday win; EDI and Tim Hortons moved on earlier in the week, and Medicine Chest snuck in as the sixth team with two ties.

The first round featured a three-pool round robin format, which resulted in three eliminated teams now dusting off their golf clubs - Air North, Firth Rangers and CapriCMW.

Second round elimination action starts Monday night with regular season champs EDI (#1 seed) taking on Titanium (#6) and Medicine Chest (#2) playing Yukon Inn (#5). Tim Hortons (#3) and Kilrich (#4) square off Tuesday night. The three winning teams will advance to the third and final round, which wraps up April 14.

Highlights/scores from first-round games include:

EDI 7, Air North 0 - Stacey Bowden recorded the shutout for EDI.

Medicine Chest 3, Firth 3 - Pete Johnston scored with 46 seconds left to give Firth the draw.

Tims 7, Capri 2 - Doug Terry and Joel Talbot each potted two for Tim’s.

EDI 5, Yukon Inn 2 - Willy McKenna’s hat trick led EDI

Tims, Kilrich 2 - Two more for Doug Terry!

Medicine Chest 3, Titanium 3 - Chad Cowan popped in a pair for Titanium.

Kilrich 7, CapriCMW 2 - Shawn Kinsella recorded a hat trick in the win.

Titanium 3, Firth 1 - Gary McKellar scored twice, including the winner, to lead the Titans.

Yukon Inn 5, Air North 3 - Pete Mostyn netted two goals for YI, one was the game winner.

EDI topped the regular season standings with 60 points (29-9-2).

Medicine Chest came in second with 58 points (28-10-2).

Tim Horton’s rounded out the top 3 with 51 points (22-11-7).

The Chest’s Jamie Cairns took the league scoring title with 92 points (39 goals, 53 assists) in only 35 games.

Tim’s Josh Savil was the second-leading scorer with 79 points (49 goals, 30 assists) in 40 games.

EDI’s dynamic duo of Gus Morberg (37 goals, 39 assists) and Willie McKenna (42 goals, 34 assists) tied for third in the scoring derby with 76 points each.

Firth sniper Devon Slade won the Rocket Richard trophy with a whopping 55 goals. Savill was next, tickling the twine with his 49, with McKenna coming in third with his 42 markers.

Cairns won the Golden Basket with his league-leading 53 apples. Morberg gathered 39 apples to finish second. McKenna came in third in assists as well with 34.

Among goalies, Tim’s Paul Dainton, to no one’s surprise, finished on top of the Goals Against standings with a 1.57 average. The Chest’s Gerald Tetlichi was a distant second with a 3.44 GAA. Kilrich’s Jim Antonisson rounded out the top three with a 4.11 GAA.

Tetlichi led the league by a substantial margin with 25 wins. Antonisson was second with 18 wins. EDI’s Stacy Bowden finished third with 16 wins to her credit.

Michel Dubois took the Tiger Wiliams trophy with 30 penalty minutes. Cairns and Morberg were also no strangers to the sin bin, finishing with 22 penalty minutes each.

**– Submitted by Bernie Adilman. Stats supplied by https://leagues.carhahockey.ca/WOHL

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