Okanagan Hockey Academy (7) vs Coeur d鈥橝lene Hockey Academy (3) U17 Prep
Both teams struck on the power play in the first period as Sal Costa scored for CDA and Luke Assi (2G, 2A) countered for OHA. Assi gave OHA their first lead 6:21 into the second before Maxx Parfitt (1G, 1A) and Kolton Denich (1G, 1A) added power play goals 1:02 apart late in the period. Akira Ota (2G, 1A) replied for CDA 36 seconds later but Landon Nagle (2G, 1A) responded for OhA 30 seconds after that as the final 2:25 of the period saw four total goals. In the third, both teams’ power plays continued to click as Nagle and David Aggen (1G, 3A) scored on the man advantage for OHA while Ota did the same for CDA as the game ended 7-3 in favour of the visitors. Chase Andriuk (19/22) and Alex Doyer (44/51) were in net for their respective teams.听
North Shore Warriors (4) vs Delta Hockey Academy (5/SO) U18 Prep
Milan Mrsic (2G) opened the scoring 12:48 into the game with the lone first period goal. Jacon Schwartz doubled the Delta lead 17 seconds into the second and Mrsic added his second of the game midway through the frame. North Shore would need just 5:01 to erase the deficit as Jan Lucan, Matteo Paradiso (1G, 2A) and Mark Lee all found the back of the net late in the middle frame. Nicholas Campbell restored the Delta lead 7:48 into the third but Liam McCloy scored his sixth of the season to tie the game and force overtime. After OT solved nothing, Schwartz scored the lone shootout goal with a Forsberg and Ashton Thornton (38/42) stopped all three North Shore shooters to give Delta the 5-4 win.听
Edge School (7) vs RINK Hockey Academy Winnipeg (1) U15
Kelson Hawreluik opened the scoring 4:07 in as the home side grabbed an early lead. But Edge would respond with seven unanswered as they outshot RHA Winnipeg 75-18 in a 7-1 win. Cade Mazurski (2G, 1A) tied the game 7:26 later and Easton Armstrong scored the eventual game winner with 2:50 left in the first. Mazurski, Luke Tschetter (1G, 1A) and Brody Antignani (1G, 3A) added second period goals with Matteo Dufour and Beckham Monette scoring in the third. Hudson Andrews (17/18) made 17 saves in the win while Haize Brightnose (68/75) was charged with the loss.听
Ontario Hockey Academy (2) vs Fort Erie International Academy (4) East U17
Jayden Goolab鈥檚 goal a mere 55 seconds into the hockey game for Fort Erie International Academy continued to compound the struggles of Ontario Hockey Academy this season, with OHA still in search of their first win in February. Zachary Brochey scored short hereafter to extend the lead to two, and while OHA spent the rest of the game doing their best to push back, they couldn鈥檛 do more than cut the Fort Erie lead in half. Isaac Gagn茅 (1G, 1A) and Thomas Harvey (1G, 1A) helped Fort Erie extend their lead and Demitry Gikas made 28 saves on 30 shots for what ultimately ended up as a 4-2 win for his club.听
Prairie Hockey Academy (2) vs Northern Alberta Xtreme (3) U18 Prep
Northern Alberta Xtreme has been the best of the U18 Prep for nearly the entire season, so when Prairie Hockey Academy took the lead, it looked like an upset might be in the cards, with Hubert Larose (1G, 1A) scoring to make it 1-0. PHA鈥檚 lead lasted merely 70 seconds, and once Carter Ellsworth scored to bring NAX back to level terms, Darius Hordal and Gavin Harrison would score in the second and third periods respectively. Tyler Swanson鈥檚 22 saves led NAX to the 3-2 win, defeating PHA for the second time this weekend, having prevailed 8-1 on Friday night.听
Prairie Hockey Academy (1) vs Edge School (4) U17
The third of Prairie Hockey Academy and Edge School鈥檚 three-game weekend series on Sunday saw both teams coming in having traded victories over one another on Friday and Saturday nights. PHA鈥檚 trip to Calgary started with a 6-2 loss prior to beating Edge 4-1 on Saturday, while Edge remained keen on staying ahead of a PHA team that they can see in their rearview mirror in the CSSHL U17 standings. The first period saw Sam Mclean and Reid Kawaguchi score for Edge and PHA respectively, sending the game tied into the second period before Darius Odermatt scored twice for Edge in the second. Odermatt鈥檚 thirtieth and thirty-first goals respectively established a lead too wide for PHA to recover from, and an empty-net goal at the end of the third period helped Edge to the 4-1 win.
Edge School (6) vs South Alberta Hockey Academy (5) U17 Prep
Edge School鈥檚 trip to play the South Alberta Hockey Academy started poorly, with SAHA doing serious damage throughout a dominant 8-2 win on Saturday. The score through two periods was 5-2 on Saturday, with SAHA scoring three in the third, and Sunday鈥檚 game looked to be on a similar path. Owen Fisher scored twice in the first for SAHA, and with Carson Ward鈥檚 second-period powerplay goal extending his team鈥檚 lead to 5-2, SAHA looked well on their way to a similar victory to the one they鈥檇 earned yesterday. On Sunday, though, Edge School鈥檚 third period dragged them back into the fight. Izayah Zharko scored his second of the game early to make it 5-3 before Antonio Cazac (1G, 2A) scored with 4:42 on the clock in the third to pull his team back within one. Zharko completed his hat-trick and tied the game with 2:30 left in the third, assisted by Cazac, who would himself go on to win the game with the only goal of the shootout.听
Okanagan Hockey Academy (2) vs Coeur d鈥橝lene Hockey Academy (5) U18 Prep
Coeur d鈥橝lene Hockey Academy got huge games out of Aleksandr Skuratov (2G) and Bennett Byers (41/43) to lead them to a 5-2 win over Okanagan Hockey Academy, helping their team grab their first victory of February. Two goals in less than one first-period minute from Gavin Smith and Michael Khudyakov sent CDA on their way, never surrendering the lead, winning 5-2. While Byers鈥 heroics deserve a tremendous amount of credit for CDA鈥檚 perfect penalty kill, the personnel going 6/6 in preventing a goal against while shorthanded was a huge boost in achieving the win.听
Pacific Coast Hockey Academy (4) vs STAR Hockey Academy (3) U15 Prep
STAR Hockey Academy鈥檚 first 26:00 of Sunday鈥檚 game against the Pacific Coast Hockey Academy, specifically their domination of it, was a direct contradiction of the rest of the battle. STAR鈥檚 12-7 margin in shots on goal after one and 2-0 lead at the start of the second would have led any impartial viewer to believe they were in complete control of the game. Maximus Scheffer (2G) scored first for PCHA, cutting the deficit in half before consecutive powerplays for PCHA at the end of the second proved costly for STAR. Trent Porter and Mazen Green both scored powerplay goals to turn the game in favour of PCHA and while Daniel Makovetskiy (2G) was able to score nine seconds into the third period to tie the score at three, PCHA had the entire period to re-take the lead. Scheffer scored his second near the halfway point, and PCHA held STAR to merely six third-period shots, which PCHA goaltender Rio Manhas was able to subdue, helping his team to the 4-3 win.
St. George’s School (6) vs Okanagan Hockey Academy (1) U15 Prep
St. George鈥檚 game against the Okanagan Hockey Academy on Sunday saw OHA goaltender Maddox Slater spend the first 14 minutes imitating a brick wall to keep the game scoreless. Eventually, though, Noah Fowler (1G, 1A) broke through, giving his team a 1-0 lead, doubled before the intermission by Adam Benn (1G, 2A). Slater kept making saves but surrendered a total of 55 shots by the time the 60 minutes had concluded, with St. George鈥檚 able to score twice per period, ending with a 6-1 win.听
Pacific Coast Hockey Academy (4) vs St. George’s School (1) U18 Prep
Pacific Coast Hockey Academy鈥檚 first game against St. George鈥檚 School this weekend would be one to forget, especially once Harshaan Kaila completed his hat-trick for St. George鈥檚 in the third of Saturday鈥檚 7-2 win over PCHA. The start of Sunday鈥檚 game picked up where Saturday鈥檚 had left off, with Kaila scoring the first of the game to give St. George鈥檚 the edge. Drew Stinka (2G) scored late in the first to send the game into the second period tied, and in the second, PCHA took and secured the game鈥檚 lead. Alex Wang and Jed Lake made it 4-1, where thanks in part to PCHA goaltender Sam Saskiw standing tall throughout the third, Pacific Coast held on for the victory.
Yale Hockey Academy (1) vs Delta Hockey Academy (4) U15 Prep
Yale Hockey Academy and Delta Hockey Academy鈥檚 U15 Prep teams have had similar records all season long, with their last head-to-head meeting making the closeness in quality between the two squads obvious. Yale won 3-2 despite the Delta edge in shots, and since then, the two teams have never been far from one another in the CSSHL U15 rankings. YHA goaltender Gavin Craig stood strong for most of the first period, but Delta finally broke through, with first Casey Pearson (1G, 1A) followed by Tripp Fischer (2G) in the last two and a half minutes of the first period. An evenly-matched if scoreless second period came and went, with Delta鈥檚 two goals all that remained on the board until the third, thanks in part to Jack Utsunomiya in the DHA crease, who stopped all 11 second-period shots he faced. Early in the third, Fischer scored his second of the game to make it 3-0 Delta, with Nicholas Voinea鈥檚 following goal merely a consolation for Yale. That would be as close as Yale would come, who eventually saw their chances at a comeback killed off by Ethan Kitchen鈥檚 late goal, sealing the 4-1 win for Delta Hockey Academy.听
OHA Edmonton (5) vs RINK Hockey Academy Winnipeg (6) U17
OHA Edmonton鈥檚 three-game weekend series with the RINK Hockey Academy Winnipeg saw the first two games split, with OHA Edmonton prevailing 5-3 on day one, and RHA Winnipeg responding with a 4-1 win on Saturday night. That game鈥檚 five-goal total was matched by the two teams within 12:11 of the first period on Sunday, with OHA Edmonton going behind twice before surging into a 3-2 lead. RHA Winnipeg鈥檚 Saturday night win came largely thanks to an Atley Feniuk hat-trick, and Feniuk (3G) went to work again on the powerplay Sunday, tying the game early in the second. OHA Edmonton鈥檚 Hudson Blair (2G) and Osten Strickland found a response later, giving their team a two-goal lead heading into the break this time, but RHA Winnipeg found a similar response to the one they鈥檇 mustered when they went down by one heading into the second. Feniuk scored his second of the game early in the third to pull his team to within one before Oliver Campbell notched just his third goal of the season to tie things at five. Feniuk, already having scored in the third, would add a powerplay goal with 5:13 to go to give RHA Winnipeg a come-from-behind 6-5 lead and complete his second hat trick in as many games. Feniuk鈥檚 six goals over the final two games of the weekend series against OHA Edmonton helped RHA Winnipeg to back-to-back wins, taking Sunday鈥檚 contest 6-5.
BWC Academy (6) vs RINK Hockey Academy Kelowna (3) U15 Prep
Burnaby Winter Club Academy鈥檚 U15 team needed to get a result out of Sunday鈥檚 game against RINK Hockey Academy Kelowna if they wanted their Okanagan trip to produce a win. The task at hand no doubt received an increased level of pressure given the upset loss at the hands of the Okanagan Hockey Academy on Saturday night. The heroics for BWC off the hop came from an incredibly unlikely source, with defenceman Miller Watkins (2G, 1A), formerly a part of the RINK Hockey Academy Kelowna, scoring his second and third goals of the season within seven first-period minutes. Watkins had one goal in the previous 28 games he鈥檇 played this season, with his two in the first today providing BWC with an adequate jumping-off point. Cohen Baker (2G) extended BWC鈥檚 lead to 3-0 late in the first, and although RHA Kelowna scored twice in the second period, Logan Henry (2G, 1A) would ultimately put the game out of RHA Kelowna鈥檚 reach with two second-period goals of his own. BWC鈥檚 win gave them an important bounceback and gave them some indication that Miller Watkins might be a secret offensive weapon.听
Notre Dame (4) vs OHA Edmonton (10) U17 Prep
OHA Edmonton鈥檚 Sunday game was an offensive clinic from the outset, which was to be expected, given Edmonton鈥檚 14 goals in Saturday鈥檚 battle with the same Notre Dame Hounds team they鈥檇 face again. Michael Kaplan (1G, 1A) scored early and OHA Edmonton didn鈥檛 look back from there. They鈥檇 end up with 26 shots after a first period that saw them lead 3-1, before Jaggar John (1G, 3A), Cash Brebant (1G, 2A), and Logan Miller (2G, 1A) would all score on the Notre Dame net in the second period. Kai Richards (2G, 1A) scored in the third, and while Notre Dame didn鈥檛 stop fighting, OHA Edmonton ultimately cruised to a 10-4 win.
RINK Hockey Academy Winnipeg (0) vs Northern Alberta Xtreme (4) U17 Prep
Northern Alberta Xtreme鈥檚 4-0 loss at the hands of the RINK Hockey Academy Winnipeg on Saturday night was one they鈥檇 be incredibly eager to avenge on Sunday, especially given the fact that the loss was NAX鈥檚 second consecutive defeat, both losses at the hands of opponents who are below NAX in the standings. Two first-period points from Bordy Dawson (1G, 3A), including opening the game鈥檚 scoring on the powerplay, led NAX out of the first period with a 2-0 lead. Bronsyn Mouille (1G, 1A) and Braeden Malenchak (2G) both scored on the man advantage in the second and third periods respectively and although NAX remained in control for the majority of the game, Matthew Coyle was still tested 22 times by the RHA Winnipeg attack. He made every save necessary to earn his team the win, and notably, earn himself his second shutout in five starts.
RINK Hockey Academy Winnipeg (12) vs Pilot Mound Hockey Academy (0) U18 Prep
Any doubts or deliberation about the victor of Sunday鈥檚 game between the RINK Hockey Academy Winnipeg and Pilot Mound Hockey Academy wouldn鈥檛 have remained by the time the game reached its first intermission. RHA Winnipeg scored eight goals on 24 first-period shots, including one a mere eight seconds into their only powerplay. They鈥檇 add four more over the last two periods, with Cohen Lewko (2G, 3A), Carter Haney (2G, 1A), and Jake Ritson (1G, 3A) leading the way for an RHA Winnipeg team that ultimately hit the PMHA net with 76 shots in the hockey game en route to the 12-0 win.
Delta Hockey Academy Black (5) vs Okanagan Hockey Academy Black (2) Female U18 Prep
The Delta Hockey Academy Black team may have only lost 2-1 to the Okanagan Hockey Academy Black team in their Saturday night meeting, but losing the game by one goal is a statistic that鈥檚 almost flattering to Delta Black, given the fact they were outshot 43-14 in the hockey game. Looking for a response on Sunday, Emma Biros (2G 1A) took charge for Delta Black, giving them a 1-0 lead 3:11 into the game. Mira Morgan and Abigail Jung (1G, 1A) scored in the second to extend the Delta Back lead beyond what OHA Black would be able to come back from, and despite a hard push, Delta Black ultimately sealed off a 5-2 win with Biros scoring her second of the game in the third to help her team to the bounce-back win.
BWC Academy (2) vs RINK Hockey Academy Kelowna (7) U17
There are plenty of games in which the first goal is crucial; whether it鈥檚 obvious in the moment or in retrospect, the first goal can set momentum early and help one team establish a path to victory. The key word there is 鈥渃an,鈥 because as Burnaby Winter Club Academy and Rink Hockey Academy Kelowna鈥檚 game can attest, the opposite can easily be true. On Sunday, BWC鈥檚 Leonardo Lee scored first, giving his team the lead on the road. That immediately preceded seven consecutive RHA Kelowna goals between the 8:01 mark of the first period and the end of the second, with RHA Kelowna getting big offensive contributions from Mason Alexander (1G, 3A), Griffin Hoy (1G, 2A), and Maximilian Koppel (2G) among others. Kijin Cho would score in the third to add to his first-period assist, but the offensive push from BWC in the third period always felt futile given the deficit, and RHA Kelowna cruised to the 7-2 win.
Notre Dame (1) vs OHA Edmonton (11) U18 Prep
OHA Edmonton closed out their weekend with an offensive onslaught over Notre Dame. Defenceman Paulo Borrelli (3G, 2A) and Parker Fitzgerald (3G, 2A) each secured a hat-trick and five points each in the landslide victory while Josh McKague (2G, 2A), Braydon Franks (1G, 3A) and Calum Giese (1G, 3A) each produced four point outings. Micah Pimm scored the lone goal for Notre Dame.
Prairie Hockey Academy (6) vs Notre Dame (2) U15
Following a scoreless first period, Notre Dame would burst on to the scene with four unanswered goals to build their most substantial lead of the season. Jax Baumuller (2G) would net two in succession including a highlight reel marker off of a slick toe drag at the blueline. Deklan Street would get one back for Prairie early in the third, but was immediately answered by the Hound鈥檚 Maddex Floberg (1G, 1A). Jakub Palmer would get another one for Prairie late in the frame, but Drew Patterson would score the backbreaker shortly after, helping Notre Dame鈥檚 U15 squad capture their first win of the regular season. Soren Martin (40/42) played a vital role in the Hound鈥檚 victory, steering aside 40-shots through sixty.
RINK Hockey Academy Kelowna (2) vs Okanagan Hockey Academy (7) U15
OHA鈥檚 Sunday victory was highlighted by a hat-trick performance from Owen Magness (3G), scoring three of OHA鈥檚 four opening goals. Mason Leibel would continue OHA鈥檚 scoring trend in the third, putting away a pretty one on the breakaway. Hayden Carpenter would get RHA Kelowna on the scoresheet soon after, hopefully sparking some life for his team. However, OHA would continue piling on the pressure, outshooting RHA Kelowna 23-8 in the final frame. Grayson Holmes (1G, 2A) would spot Jett Wood for a powerplay goal that would serve as one of the final nails in the coffin for RHA Kelowna. Ethan Watson (21/23) would make 21-saves in the win, while Griffin Prairie Chicken (55/62) gave his all in goal for RHA Kelowna, making 55-saves in the loss.
Pacific Coast Hockey Academy (7) vs Coeur d鈥橝lene Hockey Academy (0) U17
The offence was evenly spread around in PCHA鈥檚 7-0 win over CDA as only three skaters failed to register a point. Owen Bate鈥檚 (1G, 1A) opening snipe would go on to serve as the game winner while four other skaters supplied multi-point efforts. Logan MacLean (17/17) made work easy in goal, stopping 17-shots for his second shutout of the campaign.
OHA Edmonton (3) vs Northern Alberta Xtreme (7) U15
Jett Evans (3G, 1A) would garner NAX鈥檚 two opening goals in a Sunday showdown with their city rivals. OHA Edmonton would come swinging back in the second with two powerplay goals off the sticks of Lane Huscroft and Marek Pashko. Later in the frame, NAX would find their offensive touch once again with Gavin Van Brabant (1G, 1A) and Evans restoring the two goal lead. Matteo Gambetti would bring OHA Edmonton back to within one early in the third, but NAX would close off the contest with three unanswered goals to seal up their weekend.听听
BWC Academy (1) vs Yale Hockey Academy (4) U18 Prep
No love was lost between the two Lower Mainland rivals in a Sunday tilt in Abbotsford, BC. Ryker Swanson gave Yale the initial lead halfway through the opening frame but Jonathan Bitonti was right there with a quick response to tie things up. In the second, Yale would find their footing as Bodie Jerome and (1G, 1A) and Shaun Hildebrandt (1G, 1A) connected for a pair of goals. Yale wouldn鈥檛 let up in the third, fending off BWC Academy for the 4-1 win. Nathan Kam (30/31) picked up the win between the pipes, making 30-saves in the process.