Local Sports

The No. 1 fan of the St. Albert Merchants will wear the team colours with pride during the hockey stick relay to kick-off the Rogers Hometown Hockey Tour stop in St. Albert on Saturday.

The first star on the Jack’s Burger Shack menu is the scrumdelicious concoction created specifically for the Rogers Hometown Hockey Tour stop next weekend in St. Albert.

The annual St. Albert Centre Ladies Bonspiel is underway at the St. Albert Curling Club. The 20-team draw ends Sunday and the finals are 3 p.m. This year’s theme is the Wild Wild West.

The undefeated St. Albert SLAM midget A girls tip-off the Edmonton Youth Basketball Association playoffs tonight against SW Mrazik. Start time is 7:30 p.m. at Saville Community Sports Centre.

The St. Albert Merchants can tie the bow on their playoff series with a win tonight against the Edmonton Mustangs. Faceoff is 7:45 p.m. at Bill Hunter Arena in game three of the best-of-five quarter-finals.

Tour stop The second annual Rogers Hometown Hockey Tour, presented by Scotiabank and Dodge, is a celebration of all things hockey March 5-6 in St. Albert. St.

Rexall Place – The third full NHL season for Nick Holden is the best of the bunch. The Colorado Avalanche defenceman from St. Albert has played in all 62 games and is plus-two with five more points than last year’s total in 78 games.

Rexall Place – The pride of St. Albert is walking on sunshine during a glorious Hall of Fame career spanning 19 seasons, 606 goals and 1,262 points in the National Hockey League.

The St. Albert Soccer Association kicks off its Ombrelle Active Start Soccer Festival today at 8:30 a.m. at Servus Credit Union Place. The indoor season windup for the U4, U5, U6 and U8 players consists of 25-minute games in the field houses.

The St. Albert Merchants are back in business in the junior B playoffs after Cam Mazur deposited the biggest goal of his career in Wednesday’s series clincher.