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Your LOCAL Media since 1918! VOLUME 108: ISSUE 07
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Tofield Satellites home opener attended by 400 Kari Janzen Staff Reporter
The newly-returned local senior hockey club, the Tofield Satellites, played their first official home game at the Tofield Arena on Saturday, Oct. 4, a home opener tailgate party and alumni night complete with beer gardens, a food truck, live music, face painting, and free admission for Satellites alumni. “It was a pretty good game, all things considered. We ended up losing to the Innisfail Eagles 8-6 but we're a young group just trying to gel together and figure some things out,” Tofield Satellites president and general manager Chris Roy said. When asked about the highlights of the game, Roy said it was most definitely the fans. “The fans were a massive highlight of the game. I believe we had around 400 people there,” he said. #23 Matthew Langdon scored the first goal of the game and, after two Innisfail goals, #21 Landon Schmidt scored another for the Satellites. The Eagles got five goals in the second period and one in the third, along with four Satellites goals scored by #22 Landon Van Engelen, The Tofield Satellites played their first official home game at the Tofield Arena on Saturday, #17 Carson Pewarchuk, #9 Ty Yoder, Oct. 4 against the Innisfail Eagles, but lost 8-6. PHOTOS SUPPLIED
and #34 Kole Gable in the third. The team’s next home game is Saturday, Nov. 1 against the Westlock Warriors at 8 p.m. The Tofield Satellites had been in town since the 1970s but folded in the 2014/2015 season. Now back, they are playing in the NCHL (North Central Senior Hockey League), and are the only team bearing the Tofield name since the Tofield Minor Hockey Association officially dissolved this spring when the decision was made to permanently join Strathcona. "With the loss of minor hockey in Tofield, our community no longer had a local team wearing the name ‘Tofield,’ until now,” the team’s social media says. “The Tofield Satellites are proud to fill that gap, giving local players a place to represent their hometown and providing our children with hometown heroes to look up to. We're not just about hockey; we're about community. The Satellites offer affordable, family friendly entertainment right here at home, creating memories and keeping the spirit of local sports alive. We believe in giving back, inspiring the next generation, and bringing people together through the game we all love.”