CHARLOTTETOWN – The final game in the 2017-18 Island Junior Hockey League season could be played Thursday.
The Arsenault’s Fish Mart Western Red Wings take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven championship series against the Sherwood-Parkdale A&S Scrap Metal Metros in an 8 p.m. start at the Cody Banks Arena.
A win will give the Red Wings back-to-back league titles, and a Metros’ win will force a seventh and deciding game at the Evangeline Recreation Centre on Friday night. If a Game 7 is required, it will mark the third straight year for the Red Wings going the distance in the league final.
The winner of this series will represent P.E.I. at the 2018 Don Johnson Memorial Cup Atlantic junior B hockey championship in Sydney, N.S., next week.
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Series scores
After the Red Wings won the first two games 4-0 and 4-3, the Metros answered with back-to-back 4-3 victories to even the series 2-2. Western, which received at least a point from 11 different players, responded with a 6-2 victory on home ice in Game 5 on Tuesday night, setting the stage for Thursday’s elimination game.
Red Wings forward and captain Chasse Gallant has a league-leading 17 points in the post-season, and Western goaltender Luke Oliver sports a league-low 1.93 goals-against average. Pat McGuigan, who has 11 points, is the Metros’ top scorer in the playoffs.
