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Western Canada Cup: Spruce Grove Saints advance to Saturday’s playoff round

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The Spruce Grove Saints are through to the Western Canada Cup playoff round thanks to their win Thursday on the last day of round-robon play.

The Alberta Junior Hockey league champions downed the Winnipeg Blues 5-3 to secure a berth in one of Saturday’s two semifinals at the tournament, which is being held in Dauphin, Man.

The Saints’ win eliminated the Blues, this year’s top team in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League.

Five players tallied for Spruce Grove: Nathan Smith, Paul Lovsin, Jake Mykitiuk, Dylan Hollman and Cameron Hughes. Saints goalie Kenny Cameron made 34 saves.

Spruce Grove will face the Coquitlam Express, champs of the British Columbia Hockey League, at 1 p.m. MT Saturday. The host Dauphin Kings will play the Yorkton Terriers of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League in the other semifinal (6 p.m. MT).

The playoffs use the Page system: the winner of the game between the third- and fourth-place teams — the Saints and the Express — moves on on to play the loser of Saturday night’s first- and second-place game between the Kings and the Terriers, on Sunday.

The winner of the Kings-Terriers game will be crowned the Western Canada Cup winner and will advance to the RBC Cup, the national junior ‘A’ championship, which will be played in Vernon, B.C., next month; the winner of Sunday’s game will also earn a berth in the RBC Cup.



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