The Niverville Clippers are HTJHL Champions for the first time in 31 years!
They pulled out a 4-0 in Game 6 of the HTJHL Championship Series to pull out a 4-2 Series Win over the Springfield Xtreme.
Clippers Goaltender Jesse Morris was named HTJHL PLAYOFF MVP!
What a series! What a season!
Congratulations to Luke Toews, Todd Anderson, Dominic Martens & Logan Unger- the entire organization. Well deserved!
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Wednesday night, the series shifts to Niverville for Game 6 of the HTJHL Championship!
The Clippers lead the Best of 7 series 3-2 following Springfield's huge win in front of a packed house in Oakbank on Saturday night to fend off elimination on home ice! In Game 5, Xtremes' Sass opened the scoring with a mere 7 seconds left in the opening frame- setting up a momentum shift for the night. Chambers added on for Springfield who held a 2-1 lead heading to the 3rd. The insurance marker came with just over 6 minutes remaining in the third when Jette got through defenders and Niverville player collided with their own goaltender to allow Jette to net the 3-1 marker. An empty net goal to solidify the victory sending this series back to Niverville for Game 6, in what's expected to be a very large crowd at the CRRC on Wednesday night-
Will the Clippers win their first HTJHL championship in 31 years or will the Xtreme force a deciding Game 7 on home ice Saturday night in an attempt to win their 2nd Championship in franchise history, 1st in 8 years! This series has been a very competitive one & back & forth they go!!
Make sure you attend Wednesday night to find out!!
GAME 6
XTREME 0 @ CLIPPERS 0
Niverville Leads Best of 7 series 3-2
Tuesday night
GAME 3
CLIPPERS 4 @ XTREME 5 (F-OT)
Niverville leads Best of 7 series 2-1
Thursday night
GAME 4
XTREME 1 @ CLIPPERS 3 (F)
Niverville leads Best of 7 series 3-1
Saturday night
GAME 5 *IF NECESSARY*
CLIPPERS 0 @ XTREME 0 (7:30 PM)
HTJHL CHAMPIONSHIP!
GAME 1
Tuesday night
CLIPPERS 0 @ XTREME 0
GAME 2
Friday night
XTREME 0 @ CLIPPERS 0
Friday night
GAME 5
HUSKIES 2 @ XTREME 5 (F)
Springfield WINS Best of 7 series 4-1
GAME 6
CLIPPERS 5 @ SWARM 0 (F)
Niverville WINS Best of 7 series 4-2
Wednesday night
SWARM 2 @ CLIPPERS 6
Friday night
Game 3
CLIPPERS 6 @ SWARM 5 (F-OT)
Saturday night
Game 3
HUSKIES 1 @ XTREME 3
Sunday night
Game 4s
CLIPPERS 2 @ SWARM 4 (F)
XTREME 0 @ HUSKIES 1 (F-2OT)
Wednesday night
XTREME 3 @ HUSKIES 2 (F)
Springfield leads best of 7 series 2-0
Thursday night
SWARM 2 @ CLIPPERS 7 (F)
Best of 7 series tied 1-1
GAME 1s ON TAP!
Sunday night
HUSKIES 2 @ XTREME 4 (F)
Monday night
SWARM 3 @ CLIPPERS 2 (F)
The HTJHL Division Finals are set! The Springfield Xtreme advance to face the Steinbach Huskies in the East Division Final, following a sweep of the Aces, while the Clippers punched their ticket to the West Division Final with a 4-2 victory in Game 3 vs Red River on Thursday night.
The Swarm went 0-4 against Niverville this season but as we all know- the playoffs are a different beast! This series promises to be high intensity & physical. This is also Macdonald's first appearance in an HTJHL semi final in the teams' short history- Congratulations to the Swarm in doing so! They feel like they aren't done yet & will battle all the way til the end! The Clippers, following their own sweep of the Bugs', has their eyes set on a HTJHL Championship final. This series will be rocking from the get go!
The Huskies are coming off a hard fought battle with Mitchell. The Mustangs opportunity came in Game 1 in Steinbach, while holding large leads in the game, 6-2 into the third period- Steinbach awoke & never looked back- The Springfield Xtreme- the leagues top team this season- were true to form in their Division Semi Final against Ste Anne, only giving up one goal, which was in 3rd period of Game 3, completing the sweep of the Aces.
Congratulations to both Ste Anne & Mitchell on great first seasons back in the HTJHL loop! Great young talent & the league & its viewers look forward to many years of great action out of those 2 communities!
The eyes are now on the HTJHL Division Finals! Schedules to be determined & finalized at this point but be sure to check back soon & catch some great HTJHL playoff hockey in your areas!
Congratulations to our 2024-2025 Regular season Award winners!
The Macdonald Swarm & Steinbach Huskies were the first to complete series victories, sweeping away the Landmark Blues & Mitchell Mustangs respectively. The Swarm await winner of Clippers/Mudbugs while the Huskies will face winner of Xtreme/Aces. Those series will be Best of 7, going forward!
Thursday night
Pair of Game 3s!
XTREME 8 @ ACES 1 (F)
MUDBUGS 2 @ CLIPPERS 4 (F)
Thursday night
Game 2
CLIPPERS 4 @ MUDBUGS 0 (F)
Niverville lead Best of 5 series 2-0
Friday night
Game 2
SWARM 4 @ BLUES 2 (F)
Macdonald leads Best of 5 series 2-0
East Division Semi Final
Game 1
MUSTANGS 6 @ HUSKIES 7
Saturday night
West Division Semi Final
Game 1
ACES 0 @ XTREME 5 (F)
Game 2
HUSKIES 6 @ MUSTANGS 1 (F)
Sunday night
Game 3
BLUES 1 @ SWARM 4 (F)
Monday afternoon
Game 2
ACES 0 @ XTREME 2 (F)
Game 3
MUSTANGS 0 @ HUSKIES 0
East Division Play-In Series
(4) STE ANNE ACES vs (5) EAST ST PAUL GATORS
Best of 3 Series
Game 1
Tuesday night
GATORS 5 @ ACES 3
Game 2
Saturday night
ACES 0 @ GATORS 0 (7:30 PM)
West Division Play-In Series
(4) RED RIVER MUDBUGS vs (5) GRUNTHAL RED WINGS
Best of 3 Series
Game 1
Tuesday night
RED WINGS 2 @ MUDBUGS 3
Game 2
Thursday night
MUDBUGS 7 @ RED WINGS 2 (F)
West Division Semi Final
(2) MACDONALD SWARM vs (3) LANDMARK BLUES
Season Series: LANDMARK 3-1, outscoring SWARM 22-20
Best of 5 Series
Game 1
Friday night
BLUES 0 @ SWARM 0