Gallant, Visser lead Vipers to key win over Metros

Campbell Gallant and Cameron Visser led the Kensington Moase Plumbing and Heating Vipers to an important win on Wednesday night in Charlottetown.

Campbell had a goal and two assists while Visser registered a 36-save shutout as the Vipers posted a 3-0 road victory over the Sherwood-Parkdale A&S Scrap Metal Metros.

Kensington, which has won two of its last three games after dropping seven of eight – although three of those setbacks were in overtime – improved to 7-6-3.

Vipers closing the gap

The Vipers sit third in the Island Junior Hockey League standings, and are now two points back of the Metros (9-7-1) and three behind the first-place Arsenault’s Fish Mart Western Red Wings (9-52).

Kensington will face the Red Wings in a huge home-andhome series over the Christmas holidays, with the teams meeting at the Evangeline Recreation Centre on Boxing Day at 2 p.m., and at Community Gardens on Friday, Dec. 29, at 7:30 p.m.

At the Cody Banks Arena, Kyle Pinksen’s goal at 12:44 of the second period proved to be the winner.

Nathan Sanderson made it 2-0 8:52 into the third period, and Gallant sealed the win with an empty-net goal at 18:13. Logan Vandervelden contributed two assists for Kensington.

Alex Kelly stopped 26 of 28 shots he faced for the Metros.

Red Wings will play in Tignish Saturday

The Arsenault’s Fish Mart Western Red Wings will play in Tignish on Saturday after all.

The Red Wings were originally scheduled to host the Cap-Pelé Predators in an interlocking game with the New Brunswick Junior Hockey League, but that game had to be postponed due to Cap-Pelé players writing exams at the Université de Moncton.

However, it was announced on Thursday morning that the Red Wings will in fact play at the Tignish Credit Union Arena on Saturday night.

The Abram-Village-based Western team will face the Eastern Maniacs from Souris in an IJHL makeup contest that will begin at 7:30 p.m.

The Red Wings’ roster features a strong core of players from the Tignish area, including Isaac Knox, Connor Morrissey, Alex Morrissey, Calvin McRae, Silas Handrahan and Cole Hackett.

Red Wings are rolling

The red-hot Red Wings have won seven straight games to take over sole possession of first place.

The Red Wings are 9-5-2, and hold a one-point lead over the second-place SherwoodParkdale Metros (9-5-2), and are three in front of archrival Kensington Moase Plumbing and Heating Vipers (7-6-3).

The Maniacs are fourth in the four-team league at 3-9-1.