League Recap, Week 2: Dieppe / Memramcook takes over first in a week of ties

Dieppe / Memramcook sat out the opening weekend of the U 13 AA season. It made up for lost time in Week 2. In four days and three road games, it beat Lewisville 5–0, beat Kent Sud 5–0 and tied Moncton 3–3, and it heads into Week 3 on top of the division with five points.

Around it, nobody could pull away. Three of the week's five games ended in ties: Riverview tied Lewisville 2–2 and Kent Centre 1–1, and Dieppe / Memramcook's 3–3 game with Moncton was the third. Week 1 had none. Every team in the division has now played, and only one, Kent Sud, is still looking for its first point.

Dieppe / Memramcook: three games, 13 goals, first place

Dieppe / Memramcook's league season began on Thursday at the Kay Arena, where it shut out Lewisville 5–0. Two days later it went to Cocagne and did it again, 5–0 over Kent Sud.

Sunday was a different kind of game. Moncton, playing its first league game of the season, became the first team to score on Dieppe / Memramcook, and the first to take a point from it: the teams finished 3–3 at the 4 Plex.

That leaves Dieppe / Memramcook at 2–0–1, with 13 goals for and three against. Its 13 goals are the most in the division and its +10 goal differential is the best, and it has done it all on the road.

Shediac / Cap-Pelé: a week off, still perfect

Shediac / Cap-Pelé, which swept the opening weekend, did not play in Week 2 and slipped to second. The slip is on the calendar, not the ice: at 2–0 with four points, it is one point back of first with a game in hand, and it is still the only team in the division that has won every game it has played.

The Blues: two games, two ties

Riverview played its first two league games at home, and both ended level.

On Monday, Lukas Pineau scored both Riverview goals, the second with 1:36 to play, as the Blues came back from 2–0 down to tie Lewisville 2–2. On Saturday, Carson Chappell's goal with 10:13 left in the third period earned a 1–1 tie with Kent Centre.

That puts the Blues third at 0–0–2, with two points, three goals for and three against. Riverview is one of four teams still without a loss, and one of three, with Dieppe / Memramcook and Moncton, to have allowed only three goals.

The rest of the division

Moncton's league season started with Sunday's 3–3 tie against the new leaders. It is fourth at 0–0–1, the only team to have played just once.

Kent Centre earned its first league point with the 1–1 tie in Riverview, six days after losing its debut 9–5 in Shediac.

Lewisville tied Riverview on Monday, then was shut out at home by Dieppe / Memramcook on Thursday. At 0–1–1, it has scored two goals and allowed seven.

Kent Sud is the only team without a point. Both of its games have been at home and both have been losses: 3–2 to Shediac / Cap-Pelé in Week 1, and 5–0 to Dieppe / Memramcook on Saturday.

By the numbers

• 5: points for Dieppe / Memramcook, first in the division after three games.
• 10–0: Dieppe / Memramcook's combined score in its first two league games.
• +10: Dieppe / Memramcook's goal differential, the best in the division (13 for, 3 against).
• 3: ties in Week 2's five games, after none in Week 1.
• 22: goals in Week 2's five games, 4.4 a game. Week 1 had 19 in two.
• 41: goals in the division's first seven games.
• 3: goals allowed by Dieppe / Memramcook (in three games), Riverview (two) and Moncton (one), the fewest in the division.
• 4: teams without a loss: Dieppe / Memramcook, Shediac / Cap-Pelé, Riverview and Moncton.
• 1: team still without a point, Kent Sud.

Where things stand

The full standings are above. At the top, one point separates Dieppe / Memramcook (5) from Shediac / Cap-Pelé (4), and the team in second has the game in hand. Riverview is next on two points, ahead of a pack of three on one: Moncton, Kent Centre and Lewisville. Kent Sud is last at 0–2.

Games played still run from Moncton's one to Dieppe / Memramcook's three, so for now the points tell only part of the story.

Week 3: what's next

Five league games are on the schedule from Monday, October 26 to Sunday, November 1:

• Monday, Oct. 26, 7:45 p.m.: Shediac / Cap-Pelé at Riverview (Riverview Lower)
• Thursday, Oct. 29, 5:00 p.m.: Riverview at Moncton (4 Plex, rink A)
• Friday, Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m.: Riverview at Kent Centre (Richibucto)
• Saturday, Oct. 31, 12:30 p.m.: Lewisville at Shediac / Cap-Pelé (Cap-Pelé)
• Sunday, Nov. 1, 1:00 p.m.: Dieppe / Memramcook at Kent Centre (Richibucto)

Riverview is the busiest team in the division this week, with three games in five days. It opens at home on Monday against unbeaten Shediac / Cap-Pelé, then plays its first two road games of the league season, in Moncton on Thursday and Richibucto on Friday. The Blues have seen all three opponents already: they beat Shediac / Cap-Pelé 3–2 and Moncton 5–2 in pre-season exhibitions, and Friday's game is a rematch of Saturday's 1–1 tie with Kent Centre.

First place is in play, too. Shediac / Cap-Pelé plays twice, at Riverview and at home to Lewisville, while Dieppe / Memramcook plays once, in Richibucto on Sunday. Kent Centre hosts both of those Richibucto games, its first two home games of the season. Kent Sud is the only team without a game.

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