The St. Albert Sabres host the Leduc Oil Kings in the Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League Thursday.
Puck drop is 7 p.m. at Akinsdale Arena.
The Sabres visit the PAC Saints Saturday at 7 p.m. at Grant Fuhr Arena.
The last game before the playoffs is Feb. 13 versus the Lloydminster Heat at 4:15 p.m. in St. Albert.
The Sabres (22-5-6) are second in the nitro north division, nine points back of the first-place Sherwood Park Flyers (29-2-1), the top team in the AMBHL.
The Saints (12-16-4) and Heat (11-15-6) share third place and Leduc (10-17-4) is fourth in the charger north division.
The Sabres closed out January with a 4-1-2 record after losing 2-0 to the Flyers in St. Albert.
The best-of-three opening playoff round between the Sabres and third-place SSAC Southgate Lions (18-9-4) in the nitro standings starts Feb. 16.
The Sabres are 2-0-2 against SSAC and 0-3-1 against the Flyers in league play.
St. Albert teams face-off Saturday at the fifth annual Special Olympics Floor Hockey Invitational at the Northlands Expo Centre in Hall C.
Special Olympics Alberta-Edmonton hosts 26 teams from St. Albert, Edmonton, Wetaskiwin, Grande Prairie, Calgary, Red Deer, Vegreville, Olds and District, Strathcona County (Fort Saskatchewan/Sherwood Park) and West Central (Stony Plain/Spruce Grove).
The St. Albert Warriors B/C team plays the Grande Prairie Storm at 8:30 a.m., Calgary Hitmen at 10:30 a.m. and Calgary Storm at 2:30 p.m.
The St. Albert D team runs the floor at 8:30 a.m. against the Edmonton Dynamos, 10:30 a.m. against the Edmonton Clashing Dragons and 1:30 p.m. against the Grande Prairie Oilers.
Visit www.specialolympics.ab.ca/st-albert for information on the Special Olympics St. Albert program.
The Morinville Kings staved off elimination in the North Central Senior AA Hockey League playoffs Sunday in Tofield.
The Kings beat the hometown Satellities 5-2 after losses of 7-1 in Tofield on Jan. 23 and 7-5 Saturday in Morinville in the best-of-five north division semifinal.
Game four is 8:30 p.m. at Ray McDonald Sports Centre and game five, if needed is 5:30 p.m. Sunday in Tofield.
The winner plays the Bonnyville Pontiacs in the best-of-five north final.
The Pontiacs (15-1), Satellites (11-4-1) and Kings (8-7-1) finished one-two-three, respectively, in the north standings.
In league play, the Satellites and Kings split their two-game series with road wins.
