Silver Stick Wrap-up, News, Major Peewee, 2012-2013 (Lambton Jr. Sting AAA Hockey )

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Silver Stick Wrap-up
The Lambton Junior Sting Major Peewee AAA participated in the International Silver Stick Finals in Port Huron this past weekend.  



The Sting would be matched up with Team Illinois in their first game of the tournament on Thursday afternoon.  After a scoreless first period, Team Illinois would score an early goal in the 2nd period and add a power play goal shortly after to take a 2-0 lead.  Lambton would battle hard in this game and would tie the game with 2 goals in the 3rd period, both on the power play.  Joey Ferrera and Curtis Marks would get the goals in this game for Lambton and the game would end in a 2-2 tie.

 

On Friday morning the Sting would battle it out with the Anaheim Wildcats.  Lambton would play a strong 1st period and gain a 1-0 lead when Joel Pavey was able to break in alone and score for the Sting.  Anaheim would break the momentum and score with only 19 seconds left in the period to tie the game at 1.  The late goal seemed to turn the momentum in this game around, as Anaheim would control most of the play in the 2nd period and score a goal to take a 2-1 lead.  The Sting would look for the equalizer in the 3rd period, but Anaheim would score a late goal and win by a final score of 3-1.

 

On Saturday morning, the Sting were slated against the Westchester Express, a highly ranked team from New York state.  It was obvious right from the start of the game, the reason for their high ranking.  Their speed and aggressive play was tough to counter and as a result the Sting were down 3-0 by the end of the 1st period.  At the beginning of the second period the Sting were able to get on to the scoreboard while on the power play. It was Joey Ferrera who did some fine work behind the net and then finally making a nice pass out front to Lucas Knowles, who slipped the puck under a diving goaltender.  Unfortunately this was the last of the goals for the Lambton boys and Westchester were able to put 4 more in before the end of the game, 3 of which were while having the man advantage.

Despite the tough loss it was a good learning experience for the team.

 

The last game of the tournament for the major Peewees was the Toronto Marlies, the second ranked team in Ontario.  This was an entertaining game to watch that was full of emotion and a lot of penalties.     

The first period did not start well, as the team barely got out of there own zone in the first 5 minutes of the game.   They were lucky to be scored on only once.  After weathering the early storm, the boys began to find their legs and play with a bit of emotion.  Just when things were looking better, the team ran into big penalty trouble as they were forced to kill 2 consecutive 5 on 3’s.  Again they survived this with some great penalty killing from the entire team, including some dynamite saves from Jakob Knowles.  Sadly, after killing these, they were faced with another shorthanded situation, which led to another goal by the Marlies.

The second period starter much better for the Sting, perhaps an inspiring speech on the bench between periods gave them some confidence.  Regardless, they were able to get on the scoreboard owing to some great passing between Cameron Rombouts, Cameron Adam and Theo Crombeen, which was capped off by Adam tapping in a great cross crease pass from Crombeen.  Things were looking great and the score was now 2-1.  While the 1st period was full of power plays for the Marlies, the 2nd period gave the advantage to the Sting.  However, it was the Marlies, while being down a man, who score again to put the game at 3-1.  Special teams were certainly beginning to play a big part in this game.  Toronto penalties kept coming and the Sting ended up having two 5 on 3 power plays of their own.  Although they had great puck control and a few good scoring chances, the puck just couldn’t find its way in the net.

As the game carried on into the 3rd period the penalties kept coming, most of which were offsetting as both teams exchanged pleasantries.  The teams battled hard but neither could register anything on the scoreboard, the ended 3-1.  The team played hard and should be proud of their efforts. 

 

Coaches comments:

“Playing in a tournament like the Silver Stick is a real privilege … I trust that the boys fully appreciated and learned from this great experience.  I am convinced that it has helped the boys prepare for the upcoming playdowns and ultimately, with a little help from the Hockey Gods, the All Ontario Championships.”