The Davidson Huskies bantam hockey team is getting ready to face off against the Dinsmore Dynamoes in their first home ice taste of provincial ‘C’ playoff action this Tuesday at the Davidson Rink and the young team is looking to go on a bit of a run.

Trevor Ouellette, head coach of the Huskies, said the two clubs match up well, as both are teams made up of younger skaters. He said Dinsmore has a lot of first-year bantams and Davidson has relied on a bunch of second-year peewee players to fill out their roster, so it should turn out to be an even series.

“I want to go as long as possible (in the playoffs) and to try to win as many series or as many games as we can,” said Ouellette. “That being said, if our leaders are leaders and our better players play as good as they can and as good as we’ve seen we should do fairly well. We should make a little bit of noise.”

Ouellette said the Huskies bantam team (5-14-1) has played well all year despite this being only their first season of existence. He said they would likely finish in seventh place in the Last Mountain Hockey League setting up a first round league playoff series starting Feb. 22 against the Humboldt Broncos.

“We’ve given them good games all year,” he said. “Aside from our last game in Bruno where they beat us 7-2 all the games have been decided by two goals or less. It should be a very good series. Even though the records are close to being total opposites I think we match up well against them in terms of our speed. They have a couple quick players and a couple good stick-handlers and so do we.”

To read more please see the February 10 print edition of The Davidson Leader.