Wildcats looking to fill blueline holes

The Swift Current Diamond Energy Female Midget AAA Wildcats were searching for help on the blueline during their annual spring camp at the Innovation Credit Union iplex over the weekend.

For the first time, the Wildcats split their camp into two portions, with a prospects camp included for potential players.

“Overall we’re happy,” said Wildcats longtime head coach Terry Pavely. “We’ve got good numbers. Three teams of the older kids and then the two younger teams with our young kids. We have a lot of returning kids, so we don’t have a lot of spots, so there is going to be some real good competition for those spots we do have.”

Pavely and his staff will face some difficult decisions as they try and shape their roster for the 2018-19 season.

“We have some kids from up north, which we usually don’t get. We have some kids from different parts of the province that I think are gonna make our decisions hard and that’s what you want. You want to make sure that you have tough decisions, that’s the best way to make a team,” said Pavely.

The Wildcats graduated three defensemen and only one forward from last season as Taylor Kirwan, Tenelle Lind, Toni Theaker, and Brooklyn Colborn will all move on.

“Right now we have one forward that we really want to get a commitment from that we think is high end. On the back end, we think we’ve got one D spot for sure already taken. We have to find two D men out of this camp. If we really like the kids that are here we might just try to get kids to commit right now.”

The Wildcats finished fifth in the eight-team Saskatchewan Female Midget AAA Hockey League regular season with a 12-11-1-4 record.

They were eliminated in the opening round of the playoffs, three games to one, by the fourth seeded Regina Rebels. Visit swbooster. com for the complete story.