A day after they nabbed a spot in the BC Hockey League’s Fred Page Cup finals with a sweep of the Alberni Valley Bulldogs, the Surrey Eagles found out who they’ll play – the defending champion Penticton Vees.
The Vees, who set a junior hockey record last year with 41 consecutive wins en route to a BCHL championship, return to the league final after dispatching the West Kelowna Warriors 4-1 in the best-of-seven Interior Conference finals.
The Eagles, by virtue of their first-place finish during the regular season, have home-ice advantage in the Fred Page Cup. Games 1 and 2 are set for Friday and Saturday at South Surrey Arena, while Games 3 and 4 will be played in Penticton on Monday and Tuesday of next week.
The last three games of the series, if necessary, were set to be played April 18, 19 and 21 – with Games 5 and 7 in South Surrey – but due to arena-availability issues at Penticton’s South Okanagan Events Centre, the schedule for those games may yet change; nothing had been rescheduled by Peace Arch News’ press deadline Monday afternoon.
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