Aldergrove Kodiaks are making some changes.
On Monday, Oct. 2, the team released three players; forwards Birbrinder Dhillon and Conner Nelles, with defenceman Cooper de Waal.
Rick Harkins, Kodiaks general manager, said after the first month of the new season, it was time to adjust the roster.
鈥淣ow we kind of see the holes that we need to fill, and slowly fill them up,鈥� Harkins commented.
鈥淚t鈥檚 just the nature of the beast this time of year. We鈥檙e not going to be content until we鈥檙e fully competitive.鈥�
Replacements have yet to be announced, but he indicated they will likely be younger.
鈥淭wo of those guys were 20-year-olds,鈥� the maximum for junior A players, Harkins told the 91原创 Advance Times.
鈥淲e just want to go a little younger, and give the younger guys a shot, right?鈥� Harkins said.
鈥淲e鈥檙e just going to try and strengthen ourselves, a little bit at a time, here. You know, you don鈥檛 win the championship in the first month of the season. So it鈥檚 just a matter of us finding our niche and going from there.鈥�
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Kodiaks announced the release one day after their first game of the season against cross-town rivals 91原创 Trappers, who won a 6-1 victory at George Preston arena, on Sunday, Oct. 1.
91原创 outshot Aldergrove 56 to 27, and the Kodiaks didn鈥檛 get on the board until early in the third period, when Owen Blyth, with an assist from Wendell Adriano and Jameson Flint, scored the lone Aldergrove marker.
Currently Kodiaks are fifth in the standings on the Harold Brittain Conference of the PJHL with three wins in nine games, just below rival Trappers, who have played seven games and have three wins to show for it, including one at Aldergrove鈥檚 expense.
Previously, Kodiaks fell to Port Coquitlam Trailblazers 3-1 on Friday, Sept. 29.
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On Wednesday, Sept. 27, Kodiaks won a 3-2 victory over the Mission City Outlaws on home ice in Aldergrove.
Kodiaks opened scoring at 7:53 of the first period, with Yianni Kyrtsos getting the goal, and Beckham Angus assisting.
In the second period at 3:39 Taylor Chiu scored the first of his two goals for Aldergrove, with an assist from Beckham Angus and Owen Blyth.
In the third, Ben Leslie got a single-handed marker for Mission City at 8:22.
Taylor Chiu responded just over a minute later at 9:36 for Aldergrove, with Wendell Adriano getting the assist.
At 10:58, Mission got their second and last goal at 10:58 from Cooper Crowe with Ethan Dockrill and Layne Jensen.
Aldergrove netminder Kyle Spak stopped 34 of 36 shots.
Kodiaks Taylor Chiu and Yianni Kyrtsos were named first and second stars of the game.
They were set to take on the Ice Hawks in Delta on Wednesday, Oct. 4, after press deadline, and then are set to play at home again Saturday night, taking on the Port Moody Panthers . Puck drops at 7:45 p.m.
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