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Merchants stumble The St. Albert Merchants gassed a two-goal lead as the North Edmonton Red Wings closed out Wednesday's win with five in a row at Londonderry Arena.
Jeff Hansen
2001 savoie DR49
CENTRE OF ATTENTION - All eyes are on Matt Savoie, a St. Albert minor hockey product playing for the Northern Alberta Xtreme bantam prep team at the 40th annual John Reid Memorial Tournament. Savoie recorded 34 goals and 61 points in 35 games last season as a second-year peewee with the bantam AAA St. Albert Gregg Distributors Sabres. The No. 1 ranked 2004 born prospect is lighting it up for the Xtreme with 20 goals and 61 points in 19 games for sixth place in the Canadian Sport School Hockey League scoring race. The Xtreme are based in the Black School District at John Maland High School and Riverview Middle School in Devon.

Merchants stumble

The St. Albert Merchants gassed a two-goal lead as the North Edmonton Red Wings closed out Wednesday's win with five in a row at Londonderry Arena.

The Red Wings potted four consecutive markers with under nine minutes remaining in the second period and the team's last goal was deposited with 1:50 remaining in the 6-3 decision.

Cam Mazur’s team-high 18th goal opened the scoring for the Merchants and Peter Corrigan made it 2-1 with his 12th of the season with 7:20 left in the period.

The Merchants led 3-1 on Matt Havens’ 15th goal and team-leading 47th point with 2:05 gone in the middle frame.

Only one penalty was called in the game as Mazur was whistled for roughing in the first.

Shots were 20-6 in the second, 19-9 in the third and 47-23 overall for the Red Wings as Ethan Crotty (9-9, 3.87 GAA) was in net for the Merchants.

The loss dropped the fourth-place Merchants (17-13-1) nine points back of the second-place Red Wings (21-10-2) in the west division of the Capital Junior B Hockey League.

The Merchants have seven games remaining before the playoffs when they host the Edmonton Mustangs (12-16-3) Sunday at 8 p.m. at Akinsdale Arena.

The Blue Guys are 7-8-1 on home ice.

Shootout for Slash

The St. Albert Ron Hodgson Slash needed a shootout to beat the last-place team in the Alberta Female Hockey League.

McKenzie Hewett and Madison Willan sniped the only goals in the shootout as the Slash prevailed 2-1 against the Edmonton Pandas (1-16-3) Wednesday at Go Auto Arena.

Shyla Kirwer scored in regulation time and the Pandas tied it eight minutes later in the second period.

The shot count was 44-22 for the Slash and Brianna Sank (7-4, 1.26 GAA) was between the pipes.

The Slash (14-7) are third in the six-team midget AAA standings with nine games remaining before the AFHL provincial tournament.

The Rocky Mountain Raiders (16-4-2) and Red Deer Chiefs (14-4-3) are ranked ahead of the 2017 Esso Cup national champions.

The Slash are back in action next Saturday against Calgary Fire (4-13-3) at 2:15 p.m. at Go Auto Arena.

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