Squirt A’s Travel to Tournoi National Atome Mousquiri de Richmond in Canada

 

The Squirt A team traveled through blinding snow to the Mousquiri Tournament in Richmond, Quebec, Canada for the first weekend of school vacation.  Competition was fierce and the team played 4 very hard games. 

 

Forwards Corey  Webber, Will O’Neil and Billy Dickson worked well together.  Dickson showed unselfish play and did a great job at creating opportunities for his line mates.   Combined, this line had 12 points in the tournament.  The forward line of Bob Foster, John Raikos and Brian Smith also played well and had 8 points.

 

The defensive pairs of Nic Hayward & Steve Hillson, and Tim Poitras & Ryan McKennedy did an amazing job at the blue line.  Hayward had a particularly strong tournament preventing a number of breakaway opportunities with his speed and fine defensive play.  Together the defense combined for 4 points.

 

Tim Huggins was between the pipes for all 4 games and made some spectacular saves.

 

 

The first game against the Barracudas Deux-Rives was tough with the Hawks coming out on the short end, losing 7-3.  The team played hard but had to combat travel fatigue and a good team.  Webber had a natural hat trick, with assists on 2 of the goals coming from Raikos and O’Neil.  Poitras assisted on the second goal.

 

In the second game the Hawks played well but came up against a great team in the Voisin Papineau and once again fell 5-1.  O’Neil scored the lone goal assisted by Webber and Poitras. 

 

In the must win third game, the Hawks pulled off an upset win against the higher seed Mineurs, Sherbrooke Ouest to move on to the playoff round.  The Hawks came out flying and won 4-3 in an outstanding game.  Webber started the scoring off, assisted by McKennedy.   Raikos scored the next 2 goals.  The first was assisted by Webber, the second by Foster.  The last goal was scored on a breakaway by Smith.   Tim Huggins had a monstrous game in goal including stopping a penalty shot in the 2nd period to keep the Hawks on top.

 

In the second game of the day the Hawks played a strong game against Shermont and went down 4-3 in a heartbreaker.  The team played well, rallying from a deficit to tie at 3-3 in the 3rd period.  Scoring for the Hawks were Smith in the 1st period and O'Neil & Webber in the 3rd period.  Steve Hillson and Foster each had an assist.

 

 

Pictures courtesy of Chip Whiting.

 

 

 

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