The Strait Pirates finish off a home-and-home series in the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League.
They’re in Springhill to take on the Cumberland Co. Blues.
The first-place Pirates won the first game of the season between the teams in Port Hawkesbury Friday night.
Game time is 7:30 p.m.
The Cabot Highlanders are on home ice in the Nova Scotia Minor Midget AAA Hockey League.
They host the Valley Wildcats.
The Highlanders (1-8-0) are last in the eight-team league with two points, a point back of Cape Breton for seventh; the Wildcats (4-4-0), who have won the first two games of the season between the teams, are tied with Fundy for fifth with eight points.
Puck drop at the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre is 6:30 p.m.
The two local teams in the Nova Scotia Female Midget AAA Hockey League kick off a weekend home-and-home series.
The Northern Selects host the Cape Breton Panthers in New Glasgow.
The Selects (7-0-2), who are undefeated, lead the seven-team league with 16 points, four points up on second-place Halifax.
The Panthers (4-1-1) are tied with the Northern Lightning for third with nine points, three points behind Halifax for second, and four points ahead of the fifth-place Fundy Nationals.
It’s the first game of the season between the teams.
Puck drop at the Pictou Co. Wellness Centre is 12:30 p.m.
The teams meet again in Membertou Sunday afternoon.
The Novas host Pictou Co. in the Nova Scotia Major Bantam Hockey League.
The Novas (3-7-0), losers of five straight, are 10th in the 12-team league with six points, two points behind Kings for ninth, and a point ahead of 11th-place Bedford; Pictou Co. (5-6-0) is in a three-way tie with South Shore and Cole Harbour for sixth with 10 points.
It’s the first game of the season between the teams.
Puck drop at the Antigonish Arena is 5 p.m.
The Novas visit the league-leading Gulls in Upper Tantallon Sunday morning.
The Dr. J.H. Gillis Royals play for the second time in as many nights in the Northern Nova Scotia High School Hockey League.
The Royals, coming off a home loss against CEC Friday night, visit the Hants East Tigers.
Game time is 7:30 p.m.
There are a pair of games in the Antigonish Rural League.
The Heatherton Warriors take on the St. Croix Angels at 7 p.m., while the County Outlaws play the Pleasantdale Panthers at 8:45 p.m.
Both games are at the Antigonish Arena.
The province’s two Quebec Major Junior Hockey League teams play the first of two games in as many nights.
St. Andrews’ Declan Smith and the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles (8-8-1), losers of two of their last three, host Pomquet’s Logan Chisholm and the Acadie-Bathurst Titan (3-12-1), who are tied with Saint John for 17th in the 18-team league, at 7 p.m.
The teams, who meet again in Sydney Sunday afternoon, have played once so far- the Screaming Eagles beat the Titan 9-3 in Bathurst in September.
The Halifax Mooseheads (12-4-0), who have won three of the last four, host the Val-d’Or Foreurs at Scotiabank Centre at 7 p.m.
It’s the first game of the season between the teams.
The Mooseheads host Pleasant Valley’s Jacob Hudson, Antigonish’s Jake and Sean Stewart and Moncton Sunday afternoon.
The StFX basketball teams are back on home court for the opening weekend of the 2018-19 AUS season.
The X-Men and X-Women opened the season against the UNB Varsity Reds at Oland Centre in Antigonish Friday night- UNB won both those games.
The teams meet again Saturday night, with the women tipping off at 6 p.m., and the men getting underway at 8 p.m.