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KIJHL finals return to Kimberley Saturday
The Kootenay International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL) final series returns to Kimberley for game five Saturday, April 25.
The Kimberley Dynamiters came up against the stingiest of defence and goaltending in games three and four in Princeton, losing both games 1-0 April 21 and 22, with the series now tied two games apiece.
A crowd of 450 at the Princeton & District Arena watched as Princeton Posse goaltender Gibson Horne was excellent with a 36-save performance.
“Gibson was great for us,” said Posse head coach-general manager Colin Minardi. “He made some outstanding saves to keep us in it.”
The Posse power-play connected on its fifth opportunity with Ben Dods firing a shot past Adam Kisilevich, who made 38 saves. Justice Loewen and Carson Hebert assisted on Dods’ winner.
“We’ve been stressing net presence and traffic all series, even 5-on-5,” said Minardi. “It just looked like Shutts (Jace Shuttleworth) was able to hold his ground net front this time and Ben was able to pick his spot.”
Minardi felt his group was up and down in the game. He added they had their moments, but gave up too many odd man rushes.
Gibson Horne posted a second straight shutout in game four, this time a 24-save performance. Once again the Posse got their winning goal on the power-play goal, this time by Jace Shuttleworth at 5:56 of the first period.
“That’s been one of our looks for a while now, it just so happens the play developed that way and we made a good play,” said Posse head coach-general manager Colin Minardi.
Adam Kisilevich finished with 33 saves for the Dynamiters, including 15 in the second period.
The Dynamiters went 0-for-2 on their power-play, while the Posse were 1-for-3.
“I was happy with how we were getting pucks below the goal line and going to work,” said Minardi of what he liked that he saw from his team. “We had kind of gotten away from that early on in the series, but it’s nice to have that back. It helped us sustain offensive zone time that maybe we didn’t have previously.”
The series returns to Kimberley for Game 5 on Saturday, April 25 with Game 6 in Princeton on April 27.
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