Kent Kanucks - Gold Medal Winners - Ted McKnight Tournament

 
The Kanucks attended their 3rd tournament of the season in Sussex NB for the 45th Ted McKight memorial and put together a great overall team effort to come away with 1st Place and the Gold for Atom A Competitive division.

Friday morning featured the Kanucks and Kent-Sud facing off for a well spirited game- great positioning and puck movement gave the Kanucks a well played 5-1 victory.

Friday afternoon, the Kanucks and Hampton played to a 1-1 tie in at the end of the first period, before the Kanucks broke open the game and finised with a 6-2 victory. 

Saturday morning, the Kanucks skated to a commanding and huge shutout 9-0 win over the host team Sussex - leaving the Kanucks with the best undefeated and overal goals for and goals against avg for a bye into the champsionship match Sunday at noon.

The Sunday final saw a great match with the Kanucks facing off against the DQ Biizzards - the team trailed the Blizzards 0-1 after the 1st period, and were down
0-2 after the 2nd period.  Entering the 3rd period, the Kanucks battled back with a 2-2 tie to finish in regulation and push the game into overtime.  After 5 mins of sudden death, the game remained tied 2-2 - leading to a shootout won by Kanucks who nailed 2 of thier 3 shots versus DQ who only found a single 1 of 3 goals - Giving the Kanucks the Championship and Gold!.

Throughout the 3 days of the tournament, these Kanucks showed some of the most outstanding goaltending, positioning and passing plays - which included each and every player contributing in the entire success the Kanucks found this weekend - great demonstration of teamwork and working hard.

Scoresheet Highlights

Carter Sturgeon –         5 Goals, 3 Assists, 1 SOG
Luke Kyle –                  3 Goals, 3 Assists
Anderson Quesnel -      3 Goals, 3 Assists
Max Hay –                    2 Goals, 4 Assists
Jacob Hannay –            2 Goals, 3 Assists
Owen Graham –           1 Goal, 3 Assists, 1 SOG
Alexander Hill -             3 Goals, 1 Assist
Cohen Donald -             1 Goal, 2 Assists
Brayden Snowdon –      2 Goals
Gary Shao –                 2 Assists
Matt Forward –             2 Assist
Olivier Benoit –             2 Assists
Sam Legere  -              1 Assist

Thanks to the coaches, trainers, parents and everyone else who support this team and their success.