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A mixed curling bonspiel is just around the corner with a poker-style format to determine the winner. Teams made up of four curlers, with both sexes represented, will curl in three games apiece on Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28.

• Nipawin takes on Melville in the quarter-final with Game 1 tonight in Melville. The Hawks finished with 72 points, 16 more than the Millionaires, but Melville gets home-ice advantage by virtue of its first-place division finish.

Montreal netminder Carey Price, not Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby, is the NHL’s true MVP, writes Jack Todd in the National Post. “With 16 regular-season games to play [as of Monday], Price should be a lock for the Vezina Trophy,” writes Todd.

The Creighton Kodiaks junior boys’ basketball team went undefeated in round-robin play to advance to the finals of a tournament held at Creighton Community School last weekend.

The Flin Flon Bombers evened their quarter-final series against the Notre Dame Hounds with a 4-1 win Wednesday night.

The Hapnot Kopper Kings are on a hot winning streak after earning their fourth consecutive basketball banner for Zone 11.

As the end of ice fishing season approaches, northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan residents are reminded about the rules around ice shacks. In northern Saskatchewan, the deadline to remove shacks from the ice is March 31.

The Flin Flon Bombers and Notre Dame Hounds kick off their quarter-final best-of-seven playoff series tonight in Wilcox. Dave Leaderhouse of SJHL.ca offers the following preview.

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