The Notre Dame Hawks will face the Warren Mercs in the South Eastern Manitoba Hockey League final. Jeff Michiels scored his third goal of the game with 4:28 left in the third period as Notre Dame edged the Portage Islanders 4-3 at Stride Place in the deciding seventh game of their semifinal. Brody Chabbert had the other Hawks goal. Jonah Wasylak had a pair of goals for the Islanders while the other went to Jamie Mousseau. Visiting teams won all seven games in the series.

 

Nico Vigier scored a power play goal 32 seconds into overtime to lift the Pembina Valley Twisters past the Fort Garry/Fort Rouge Twins 3-2. Griffin Ayotte and Ben Hilhorst also scored for the Twisters who evened the Manitoba Major Junior Hockey League's quarterfinal at a game a piece. Game three in the best-of-seven series goes Tuesday in Morris.

 

The Manitoba U18 AAA Hockey League semifinals are set. The Brandon Wheat Kings will meet the Parkland Rangers and the Eastman Selects will face the Winnipeg Wild. The Rangers downed the Yellowhead Chiefs 3-1 Sunday in Dauphin and took the best-of-five quarterfinal three games to one. The Wheat Kings swept the Southwest Cougars in three straight in their series. The Selects eliminated the Winnipeg Bruins in three and the Wild took the Winnipeg Thrashers in three straight in their quarterfinal.

 

Brandon beat Yellowhead 6-3 in the gold medal game at Hockey Manitoba's Provincial Female U15 AAA Championship in Carman. Macdonald beat Thompson 7-1 in the gold medal game at the Provincial U13 Rural AA Championship in Niverville.

 

Pierre Luc-Dubois scored 2:25 into overtime to lift the Winnipeg Jets past the St. Louis Blues 4-3. Nikolaj Ehlers, Mark Scheifele and Kyle Connor with his team leading 37th of the season also scored for the Jets who picked up four of a possible six points on their three-game road trip. Winnipeg goaltender Connor Hellebuyck made 28 saves.

 

Brad Gushue is a Brier champion for the fourth time. Gushue defeated Kevin Koe of Alberta 9-8 in an extra end Sunday night in the Brier final in Lethbridge. Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant and Geoff Walker are the first Wild Card team to win the Brier. Gushue played the last three games without Nichols who tested positived for COVID-19 on Friday. The win lifted Gushue into a tie with Koe, Regina’s Ernie Richardson and Edmonton’s Randy Ferbey & Kevin Martin as skips with four national men’s titles. Gushue, Nichols, Gallant and Walker will represent Canada at the 2022 World Men's Curling Championship in Las Vegas from April 2nd - 10th.