Dynamos set for fourth-place playoff matchup after split results

By David McIver

Prior to their last regular-season game, the Dinsmore Dynamos had split recent games, remaining in fifth place in the 10-team Sask Valley Hockey League.

The Dynamos were to finish the regular schedule in Lucky Lake on Sunday.

It looks like they will place the fouth-place team, whether that’s the Loreburn 19ers or the Davidson Cyclones, said Dynamos manager Kurt Jones.

The 19ers and Cyclones were each tied with 39 points and a game to be played at press time Friday.

All of the Dynamos but Brayden Atkinson - out with a knee problem - remain available to play, said Jones then.

The Cyclones had edged them 6-5 in Dinsmore on Wednesday after a Dynamo 5-3 home-ice win over the Outlook Ice Hawks on Jan. 23.

Rosetown-area product Josh Uhrich got a hat trick and Justin Ball and Trey Doell also tallied against the Cyclones. Daven Smith had two assists.

Declan Hobbs made 20 saves in the Dinsmore net.

Mark Walchuk scored four goals and Braden Olszewski got two more Cyclone markers. Brett Matlock stopped 32 Dynamo shots.

Logan Casavant with two, Uhrich, Chad Westman and Parker Atkinson scored against the Ice Hawks. Colin Berglof, Josh Atkinson and Otto Lammers each had two assists.

Hobbs made 29 saves.

Dawson Kurz, Alex Phillips and Kobe Kindrachuk got Outlook goals.

Despite it being a loss for him, Ice Hawk netminder Derrick Hucul made 55 saves.