In their first year competing in the U15 Division, RINK Hockey Academy Winnipeg has been crowned the 2025 CSSHL U15 Division II Western Champions.
RHA Winnipeg (Winnipeg, MB) would defeat RHA Kelowna (Kelowna, BC) 5-2 on Friday to capture the programs third ever CSSHL Western Championship. Their last one came back in 2023 at the U16 Prep level.
Coming into the Championships as the three seed, RHA Winnipeg went 0-2 in the Round Robin, putting them in the five slot. They would beat St. George’s School (Vancouver, BC) in the quarter-finals before overcoming a two goal deficit to beat STAR Hockey Academy (Kent, WA) in overtime of the semi’s.
RHA Kelowna came into the Championships as the fifth seed, going 2-0 in the Round Robin and finishing third in the pool. They would beat Prairie Hockey Academy (Caronport, SK) in the quarters before hammering Pacific Coast Hockey Academy (Victoria, BC) in the semi-final.
On Friday the finals started off with some tight checking by both teams before Ryder Olford and Zachary Haney scored 13 seconds apart to put RHA Winnipeg ahead midway through the opening frame.
Kelson Hawreluik scored on the power play 46 seconds into the second to extend his teams advantage. Dexter Labrecque would get RHA Kelowna on the board midway through the game with his fourth of the Championships.
Harrison Sharman brought RHA Kelowna within one 7:18 into the third but that was as close as they would get as Haize Brightnose (47/49) finished with 47 saves to secure the win for RHA Winnipeg.
Aiden Christie and Jack Arseniuk added third period power play goals to increase the advantage to three, making it a final score of 5-2.