2025 was a busy year for sports in Dauphin and the Parkland.

The Dauphin Kings ended the 2024-25 regular season in first place in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League’s MGEU West Division with a record of 37-18-2-1 for 77 points, fourth best overall.

Dauphin dispatched the fourth place Waywayseecappo Wolverines in five games, before eliminating the Portage Terriers in six games.

The Kings then faced the Northern Manitoba Blizzard in the final.

The Blizzard, which finished in second place, six points behind the Kings in the regular season, had beaten the Neepawa Titans and swept the defending league champion Winkler Flyers to earn their berth in the championship round.

After the Blizzard took a three-games-to-one lead, the Kings won games five and six, forcing a seventh and deciding game on home ice.

In an epic battle, Quincy Supprien scored off a faceoff at 14:03 of the third overtime period to give the Blizzard their first league championship since 2003 in front of 2,246 fans at Credit Union Place.

Goaltenders Taye Timmerman of the Blizzard and Cole Sheffield of the Kings shared the Playoff MVP Award, the first time that happened in league history.

Naaman Hofer won the Brian Kozak Memorial Award as Top Defenceman, while Hofer and teammate Cayden Glover were both selected to the first all-star team. Sheffield was named to the second all-star team along with Grandview’s Jayce Legaarden of the Winkler Flyers.

Dauphin’s Breken Brezden finished fifth overall at the Skate Canada National Championships, Jan. 14 to 19, in Laval, Que.

Read the full story in this weeks Dauphin Herald.