The 2006-2007 Hockey Season is now over...The Southwest Zone Oil King Predators had great year. They had a tremendous finish to the season claiming the Edmonton City Championship, the Provincial BB Title, and the Pat Laughton Cup Championship in the Crowchild Challenge. Their overall record was 42-8-0 (an 0.840 win percentage with no ties!), they were shutout only once all year and they strung together win streaks of 13 and 18 games - all great accomplishments but most importantly they were ton of fun to watch ! ! !
Thanks to everyone who made the 2006-7 season such a success...
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EMHA Peewee 1 City Champions The SWZ Oil King Predators claimed the EMHA Peewee Tier 1 City Playoff title with a 5-0 Game Two win over the St. Albert Jr. Saints Thursday March 15th at Grand Trunk Arena. The Preds take the best of three series 2-0 (they defeated the Jr. Saints by a score of 7-5 in Game One Wednesday March 14th ).
Highlights from Wednesday's 7-5 win over the Jr. Saints...
Highlights of the city playoff finals game 2 as the Predators bomb the Jr. Saints 5-0.
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Edmonton Champs take Inter-City Provincials The SWZ Oil Kings claimed the 2007 Hockey Alberta "BB" Peewee Tier 1 Provincial Title with a 2 games to none best-of-three series win over the Calgary City Champ Trails West 1 Devils. The Oil Kings took Game One Friday March 24th 6-1, then defeated the Devils Saturday March 25th in Game Two 8-4.
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SWZ617 takes Pat Laughton Cup The SWZ Oil Kings defeated the SWAT Spitfires 5-1 Sunday afternoon, winning the CrowChild Challenge B Final (Pat Laughton Cup) to conclude the 2006-2007 season.
The Oil Kings went 3-1-0 in the round robin portion of the event, missing by a hair a spot in the "A" playoff pool. They did clinch the 5th out of 15 team ranking despite a thin and ever-changing roster, drawing a Pat Laughton semi-final game versus the hard-nosed Drayton Valley Rangers Sunday morning. Playing a patient game, SWZ were able to solve the Rangers in the third period and advance to the B Final with a 6-2 victory.
Their opponent in the last game of the year would turn out to be their opponent in the first game of the year: Southwest rival SWAT. After trading goals early in the game, the Oil Kings would go on to score 4 unanswered markers and skate to a 5-1 championship win.
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Season Results:
2006 Wetaskiwin Peewee Tournament - Gold Medal (4-0-0)
2006 Golden Bear Invitational - did not make medal round (2-1-0)
2007 Edmonton Minor Hockey Week - did not make medal round - (1-2-0)
Exhibition: 0.800 (4-1-0)
EMHA Round One - Second (6-2-0)
EMHA Round Two - Second (5-1-0)
EMHA Round Three - First (8-0-0)
2006-2007 EMHA City Playoffs - Gold Medal (5-0-0)
2007 Hockey Alberta "BB" Peewee Tier 1 Provincials - Champions (2-0-0 v. Trails West Devils)
2007 Crowchild Challenge - Pat Laughton Cup (B side final) Champions (5-1-0)
