The first-ever CCHL "Minor league" season is about a dozen games into the regular season and two teams are still perfect on the young season. The North Haverbrook Monorails (SPR) are 11-0-1 and Minnesota's farm team, the Duluth Liefs are 10-0-2. Outstanding starts with these two teams.
Also off to strong, but imperfect starts are Flin Flon Bombers (GIL), Cole Harbour Wolfpack (CAP) and the Troy Bruins (DAY) squads.
Leading the minors in goal scoring is Michael Del Colle (ISL) with Manchester (ISL) with 15 goals in 12 games so far. Viktor Olofsson of the Amherst Otters (FOR) with 17 assists in 13 games.
Del Colle leads the league with 25 points. Second is Conor Garland with 23 points.
The Monorails Spencer Martin leads all goalies with 11 wins and zero losses on the season. Troy's Alex Nedeljkovic leagues all netminders with a .935 save percentage as well as a sparkling 1.79 GAA. Neds has a 5-1-1 record so far.
Interest in the farm league has been strong so far as CCHL teams get to see how their young but pro prospects play together and how well they fare against quality opposition. Troy's head coach Dave Burrows said, "Dayton pays me to evaluate the talent down here and just last week, Corfield called me and said they needed someone to cover Taylor Hall's arm injury. We talked about who deserved the shot in the big league and Drake Batherson was our unanimous choice. Batherson will be a regular in Dayton before too long and the experience he's getting right now will only make him better..."
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