With hockey season already started for most of the minor and junior leagues around Saskatchewan, senior hockey is soon to follow in southeast Saskatchewan. The league of now ten teams held their meeting to schedule the games this year, and with the addition of the Kipling/Windthorst Oil Kings, the teams will have a bit of a reduced schedule compared to last year's 24 games. 

Each team will only meet twice this year, meaning with a home and away series between each team that we could see more ties between teams heading into playoffs could come down to as much as a single goal. In the Big Six Hockey League's Constitution it states the following rules surrounding season tiebreakers:

7.13 Tie Breaking Procedure: If two or more teams are tied at the end of the regular season, the standings of the tied teams will be determined as follows:
1. Greater number of games won.
2. Greater number of points earned in games between the tied teams.
3. Differential of goals for and against for entire regular season.

While the regular season is being reduced, the playoff schedule is going to be a little busier. No changes are coming to the best of three series in the quarter finals or the best of five series in the semis, but the finals will see a slight change. While it's still set to be a best of seven series, if both teams agree, it can be reduced to a five game series to allow for more time to finish up the provincial series' for the teams. 

Action in the Big Six Hockey League will start up on November 2nd with two games, the Carlyle Cougars host the Midale Mustangs, and the Yellow Grass Wheat Kings head out to Oxbow to take on the Huskies. Fresh off their first championship in the Big Six, the Redvers Rockets will wait until Wednesday, November 14th to get their first game underway, at home against the Cougars.

Full broadcast schedule to come in the next few days.