SJHL Power Rankings – Week 17 (Jan. 27, 2026)
1. Flin Flon Bombers (Last week 1)
2026 continues to be kind to the Bombers, who took both this past weekend from the Estevan Bruins and have outscored the opposition 37-11 over the seven contests in the new year thus far. Mike Reagan’s men have a tough four-games-in-five-nights road trip coming up starting Tuesday, but if they can get through that alright, they have 10 of their final 14 games at the Whitney Forum. Eighteen down, 10 to go for a perfect home season. Can they do it?
2. Battlefords North Stars (Last week 2)
Win pretty, win ugly, the North Stars will do it all. They had a big lead they almost let slip away Friday to a pesky La Ronge team, and then dropped the hammer Saturday, but it was another four points for Connor Logan’s squad, who have only the one overtime loss in 2026 so far. They have averaged 5.5 goals per game over the 10 contests of the new calendar year, which can certainly explain their success.
3. Weyburn Red Wings (Last week 5)
Weyburn looks to have shaken off its early 2026 inconsistencies, and two more solid wins over Humboldt this past weekend mean they have won three of the four games they’ve played on this current homestand, with two shutouts for newcomer Joey Rocha. They’ll end that extended time at the Whitecap Resources Centre with a visit from the high-flying Flin Flon Bombers, and it’s hard to imagine a more marquee game in the regular season than that one Wednesday night.
4. Nipawin Hawks (Last week 4)
The Hawks hardly broke a sweat Friday in Warman, and have a second-half breakout star on their hands in 19-year-old defenceman Raydr Wallington, who has earned two straight SuperU Defenceman of the Week awards. They are also finally starting to get healthy, with Mason Karakochuk and Noah Heinrich back in the fold. Sometimes teams can take a badly-timed deep breath and take their foot off the pedal when they finally have a full squad after a lot of injuries, so Tad Kozun will surely be on his guard the next couple of games.
5. Yorkton Terriers (Last week 3)
Yorkton found a way to win Friday against Kindersley in the SaskTel Game of the Month, and then found a way to lose the next night to the same team in the same rink. Round 1 home-ice advantage is preferable, but the Terriers have the most road wins in the SJHL this season, so it’s less important to them than to others.
6. Melville Millionaires (Last week 9)
Doug Johnson’s men cannot seem to stay healthy, and it’s doubtful whether he’s had a full, first-choice line-up to ice all season. Still, they continue to compete, and the presence of Preston Patenaude in the net in partnership with Matt Spencer-Dahl has been enormous. Last week’s split with Melfort could not have been tighter, and five points out of their last available six have them still in a playoff spot. The two best teams in the SJHL right now come into the CN Community Centre to end January, so the challenge here continues to grow.
7. Melfort Mustangs (Last week 7)
Something has clearly clicked with the Mustangs since the trade deadline and a Jan. 10 pounding at the hands of the Battlefords North Stars. Four wins and an overtime loss have them seven points back of the playoff line with a league-high 19 games remaining in the campaign. Trevor Blevins’ men have given up a mere eight goals in their last five games, three of which came in last week’s split with Melville.
8. Estevan Bruins (Last week 6)
The optimist will see last weekend merely as the Bruins’ turn to go up to the Whitney Forum and come home with nothing, and certainly Friday’s game could have gone either way. Offence has clearly not come as easily to Drew Kocur’s men in 2026 as it did in 2025, but the talent is absolutely still there. One good week, they could very easily be back in the Round 1 home-ice advantage conversation.
9. Kindersley Klippers (Last week 10)
The Klippers showed all sorts of guts coming back Saturday in Yorkton. Both Mattias Radke and Brett O’Halloran were terrific in net over the weekend, and the fact that Kindersley is still in a playoff spot, given the fact that they were hardly at home in January, bodes well for them holding on. Kyle Schneider’s team has a six-game home stand in February, but almost all of those games are against the league’s best, so who knows what that all means. Given the depth and experience on this squad, they should still feel confident they can compete on any given night.
10. Humboldt Broncos (Last week 8)
Times have been predictably tough since they unloaded almost all their experience at the trade deadline, but the grit, compete, and character were all there despite two losses over the weekend in Weyburn. Any team that plays for Brayden Klimosko will run through the wall for him, so despite the lack of seasoning on this group, it stands to reason they will never be an easy out the rest of the way.
11. Warman Wolverines (Last week 11)
Indiscipline caught up to the Wolverines on Friday against Nipawin, but the fact that they were right in it against the red-hot Battlefords North Stars the previous weekend bodes well for this squad. Their next few games are against teams around them in the standings, so it will be important for this wildly young team to keep learning how to get results and compete every night. For everyone else’s injury complaints in the league, the Wolverines have had to do without a regular Junior A goaltender for weeks now, and have not had their No. 1 goaltender since November.
12. La Ronge Ice Wolves (Last week 12)
La Ronge deserves tons of credit for the way they competed and never quit in the third period Friday in North Battleford, scoring five times against one of the hottest teams in the league. These youngsters have plenty of skill, so the job is to keep them together and engaged ahead of next year.
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