The Kamloops Jardine Blazers continue their early season success by winning the Randy Lindros Memorial Hockey Tournament today in Kamloops. They defeated the Winnipeg Sharks 4-0 to advance to the final in the semi-final game. In the final, they face a young Edmonton CAC squad who defeated Cloverdale in the the other semi 3-2. In the final, Kamloops easily prevailed with a 7-3 win and another tournament championship.
Another bit of news involving tournament play...Notre Dame was down in Chicago to take part in the Bauer Invitational which featured 40 teams in the 96 born age group. Notre Dame was able to muster 2 ties in 4 games, along with 2 losses. Notre Dame scored 6 goals in the 4 games and were led offensively by F- Jeremiah Addison who figured in on all 6 goals, while scoring 4. Blake Penner and Ben Duperreault also scored for Notre Dame in tournament play. The tournament was won by the Vaughn Kings over Detroit. A powerhouse team from St. Louis featured talent including; Ryan Macinnis who had 9 points in 4 games, Ryan is the son of hall of famer Al Macinnis. Also, they had a young man by the name of Alex Jasiek who was easily the best player their. Also of note was a player by the name of Brendan Lemieux, the son of Claude Lemieux who played with Toronto Red Wings. Lemieux had 7 points in 3 games with 15 pims. It is known that he has a choice between OHL and WHL due to residence in an WHL zone off and on.
Finally this evening, congratulations to Braden Oleksyn who is playing underage in the Saskatchewan Midget AAA league. He just came off his first 2 goal Midget hockey game of his career. By the way, Jordan Thomson who is also playing Midget hockey but in Manitoba with the Southwest Cougars is fitting in very well and not looking a bit out of place.
The Chicago tournament was not won by St Louis. Vaughn Kings beat Detroit Belle Tire 5-4 in the Championship game. Belle Tire had earlier beaten St. Louis 2-1 in a semi-final.
ReplyDeletecurious to see what you guys think of some of the players from the Winnipeg Sharks that played in the Kamloops tournament this past weekend. From what I seen we (Wpg) seem to play a little more aggressive style then the Western teams. Do you think that was the Sharks downfall in this tournament.
ReplyDeleteThe Sharks were a good team with lots of physical play. Vernon plays a very physical game but takes many penalties. Kelowna is not very physical. Kamloops plays very aggressive and they have solid players
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