The Dauphin Clippers hockey team will face the Glenboro/Carberry/Baldur Wildcats in the best-of-three quarterfinal series.

The Clippers ended the Westman High School Hockey League in fifth place after a 6-3 loss to the league-leading Swan Valley Tigers, Sunday, before rebounding to beat the Major Pratt Trojans of Russell, 8-1, Monday afternoon.

Clippers coach Drew Kulcheski said it was a nice way to end the regular season.

“It’s nice to go into the playoffs coming off of a win. Everybody being confident. We were able to roll through today’s game. Everybody was able to contribute and we’re looking forward to playoffs,” he said.

It was a quick turn around for the Clippers, who had played the night before in Swan River. And, although they started slow, the Clippers were able to pick up their play and pull away in the latter stages of the game.

Dauphin, 19-8-0-1, finished just one point behind the 18-6-1-3 Wildcats, who have home ice advantage.

Game one goes, Mar. 3 in Dauphin at 7:30 p.m., with game two, Thursday in Glenboro at 7 p.m. Game three, if necessary, will be in Glenboro, Mar. 6, at 7 p.m.

Kulcheski is expecting a tough series, with the Wildcats.

“We’re going to have to have our work boots on. We’re going to have to play a heavy, physical game. They play a real rough Canadian style of hockey and we’ve got to be ready for it,” he said, adding some teams may be doubting the Clippers chances.

“But I’ll take this group of boys over any team in the league,” he said.