Voyageurs - Ooks, trade wins in home rinks, Saturday gets ugly

This past weekend the Voyageurs got themselves 5 points ahead of the MacEwan Griffins with a win on Saturday night.

NAIT took the first tilt in Edmonton 2-1, but the Voyageurs were flying on Saturday and notched a dominant 5-1 victory.

Brock Munro had the only Voyageur goal on Friday, Shane Mainprize 25 saves in a losing cause.

On Saturday night in LLB Portage got out to an early lead in the 1st period thanks to a big goal by Matt Gray.

The Voyageurs added to their lead in the 2nd with power-play goals from Chris Glen and Brock Munro.

Cody Mapes had a goal to open the third period on a very nice play by Matt Gray to steal the puck from Ook goalie Graeme Harrington.

After that play the whole game went into the toilet, it all started with some pushing and shoving behind the Voyageurs net between Jiri Prochazka and Chad Plouffe, the pair were seperated and the officials took due time to try and sort out penalties.

During this break, Brendan Lamb took a tomahawk-stick swing to the face from NAIT forward Payton Proskurniak, this lead to a near line brawl as Ryan Hill dropped the gloves with Proskurniak and Captain Dallas Jackson went toe to toe with Ook defender Brad Sinclair.

Later in the third period Ook forward Brandon Anderson was booted after jumping Voyageur forward Matt Gray, Ook Steven Pratt also was tossed after some choice words for the officals.

After all the rage had settled, NAIT got on the board with a quick Topilko goal, right after that Ian Hall got a goal right in front of the net, his first point in 8 games.