In the CCHL Hamilton looks to extend its modest winning streak to five as they travel to Bowmanville who sit in fifth in the East.

Orangeville are involved in an inter-divisional game too as they go to Markham who are second in the East, four points behind the Dukes with two games in hand.

The aforetosaid Dukes of Wellington host the Muskies who were the first team this season to win in Newmarket last night.

The Panthers look to climb out of the basement, they are tied for last in the East are at home to the North York Rangers of the West.

The surprising Derbys make the short trip to Toronto to take on the Buzzers; two clubs with very similar records and a penchant for scoring goals.

Third place Burlington with games in hand on Newmarket and Toronto will be looking for a big win against Upper Canada.

Over in the OJAHL 'two games of the day' as Kingston, losers of just one, travels to Trenton who are in fifth but might be the surprise team of the League and in a clash of second and third place teams the Raiders are at the Joshua Creek in Oakville. Brampton are in Huntsville and this should be a close one. Villanova has high hopes of a road win in Aurora against the struggling Tigers, Collingwood are in Bramalea and the Blues have to win this one and Couchiching travels to Milton ot take on the sad-sack IceHawks.

Ron, Markham is 3 points behind Wellington and yes 2 games in hand.

The Red Wings may have a new player in their lineup tonight as they have acquired Gregg Gibson a forward from Oakville. He has played 18 games and has 4 goals and 7 assists this season for the Blades. He is a Burlington native and is 18 years old.

Thi kid is a good hockey player Ron,very fast and very good on the penalty kill.He will help Hamilton big time...Played for stoney creek last year i believe...cheers

That's correct he finished second in scoring in the 2008/9 regular season on Stoney Creek with 20 goals and 30 assists, 15 points in the playoffs and then five more in the Sutherland Cup.

The Red Wings had a 1-0 lead after one in Bowmanville courtesy of a goal by Jeremy Goodwin but in the second they were hit by a blast of Mike Markovic, three blasts in a row in fact, to give the Eagles a 3-1 bulge after two periods and that was the extent of the scoring.

The Derbys triumphed 5-2 at St. Mike's with J.P.Villeneuve getting the game winner and the hat trick.

The struggles for the Dukes continue as the Muskies took an emphatic 6-2 win in Wellington. Brendan Musie had the game winner as Lindsay scored twice in each period.

Massimo Lamacchia got the overtime winner as the Waxers edged the Crushers 5-4 in Markham.

Phil Brewer scored three times to lead the Cougars past Upper Canada 5-3.

Jarrett Burton's third period goal gave Kingston the 3-2 win over the Golden Hawks.

Tow goals from Blake Lovell powered the Capitals to a 4-3 win over the Otters. Hunstville got two from Daniel Barnett.

In Oakville it was Sean Teakle two for the Raiders and Steven Guzzo two for the Blades. Georgetown won it in the shootout.

Collingwood got a big road win in Bramalea 7-4. Dustin Scott and Jake Bauchmen each had a pair for the Blues North and Jonathan Brand got two for Blues South.

The Terriers got past Milton 6-2 led by two tallies from Jake McLaughlin.

Aurora's pointstreak was down tonight due to the absence of scorekeeper Brian Graves who had another committment. Brian will update pointstreak later tonight.

The Tigers got back on the winning track dumping the Villanova Knights 7-4 at the ACC. Alexi Pianosi turned the "hat trick" for the Cats while the "Magician" David Morley had a 5pt night scoring 1 goal and assisting on 4 others.

The Panthers beat the Rangers 4-2 in Pickering with, as mentioned in another post, netminder Anthony Kimlin scoring an empty net goal. Justin McDonald had the game's winner. Pickering led 3-0 after the first period.

The Tigers topped the Knights 7-4 in Aurora. Alexei Pianosi had three powerplay goals to lead the way, David Morley had one goal and five points and Lucas Van Natter had a shorthanded marker.