St. Joseph and Ridgefield take center stage in boys' hockey on Saturday in the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference tournament championship at Terry Connors Rink in Stamford at 6 p.m. as MSG Varsity will show the game live online and later next week on tape delay.

The game will be streamlined live on MSGVarsity.com and will be broadcast on MSG Varsity, Channel 14 on Optimum, on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

The Cadets, seeded No. 2 in the tournament and ranked No. 5 in the New Haven Register Top 10 Hockey Poll this week, defeated No. 3 seed New Canaan 3-2 in overtime on Wednesday in the semifinals. New Canaan is No. 8 in the Register Top 10 Poll. The Tigers defeated No. 1 seed Darien 2-1 in overtime in the other semifinal. Darien is No. 3 in the Register poll.
Here's a link to this week's Register Top 10 Boys' Hockey Poll - http://bit.ly/13tXUvZ.

The Cadets are led by forwards Christian "CK" Keator, Ryan Corcoran and Colin Powell, defensemen Andrew Gore and Dean Smith and goalie Mark Van Etten who had 34 saves in the semis against the Rams.

The Tigers are led by Vin Rella, Chris Morrow and Cam McGuire, senior Ian Ball leads the defensemen and goalie Dusty Rausa had 24 saves in the semifinal win over the Blue Wave.

The St. Joseph boys' hockey team has been rolling along with an 11-2 record as it approaches its first participation in the CIAC Division I tournament this season.
St. Joseph coach Marty Crouse of West Haven said the Cadets are playing as well as he expected at this stage of the season.
"We played well in our 9-3 victory over Westhill on Tuesday," Crouse said. "We changed a few things around and shook up the lines and saw a much better performance than in the past several games so maybe this is a sign of starting to play to our potential. Our defense of Kevin Robitaille, Ryan Parsons, Chris McCormack, Andrew Gore and Matt Vazzano continue to improve and compliments our offense. (Goalie) Zach Carrano has been playing well again which gives the others the confidence needed. If everyone does what he is capable of we can make D-I interesting."
The first line of Conor Crouse, Pat Corcoran and Sander Boroczky is leading the scoring punch and now the line of C.K. Keater, John Ferguson and Jeremy Sweeting is starting to jell and put some numbers on the board. Keeping those top two lines fresh are a line of all sophomores of Mark Laoue, Zach Usinger and Matt Greenhut.
"I'm really looking forward to the rematch against New Canaan (Sat., 6:20 p.m. Darien Rink) to avenge our lackluster game earlier this season," Marty Crouse said. "Then to add on Monday at the Whalers HockeyFest at Rentschler Field, a huge opportunity to prove ourselves again against Amity (4 p.m.). Playing outdoors in a special event-type atmosphere is really exciting. I can't wait."

The two-week Whalers Hockey Fest event at Rentschler Field in East Hartford begins Thursday. On Monday in boys' hockey, Amity faces St. Joseph at 4 p.m. and Lyman Hall plays Sheehan at 7:30 p.m.
Next Wednesday (Feb. 16) , Guilford boys play St. Bernard/Bacon/NFA at 6 p.m.

Check out the entire schedule at this link - http://bit.ly/gnKGx7