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Shared regional Silver Stick success in Sudbury

Nickel City Hockey Association earns bragging rights with three winners
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Just under forty local teams competed at the 2016 Sudbury Regional Silver Stick last weekend, joined by another 21 NOHA squads, 18 from either Central Ontario or the GTA, and 11 from the Ottawa District. File photo.

Just under forty local teams competed at the 2016 Sudbury Regional Silver Stick last weekend, joined by another 21 NOHA squads, 18 from either Central Ontario or the GTA, and 11 from the Ottawa District.

When the dust settled late Sunday afternoon, all four groupings could boast championship winning teams, with some outstanding finals in the books for at least a handful of the 13 divisions that were contested.

Sudbury and area bragging rights belonged to a Nickel City Hockey Association trio, with the Nickel City Novice "AA" Jr Sons (Novice "AA"), Nickel City Minor Atom "A" Devils and Nickel City Atom "A" North Stars all hoisting the hardware.

The Devils prevailed from a Sudbury-based quartet, upending the Nickel City Flyers 9-0, after the latter surprised the Copper Cliff Redmen 6-1 in a Saturday night semi-final.

Matti Jouppi, Corey Lacroix, Liam Nootchtai and Kadin Broomhead paced the Devils' attack with two goals apiece, with Cyrus Pardaens rounding out the scoring.

The balance of the Minor Atom "A" gold medal winning roster, which travels to Newmarket for the International Silver Stick Championships from Jan. 12 - 15, includes Ava Bois, Sebastien Drouin, Carter Makasoff, Koen Palmquist, Seth Lagadin, Nico Frattini, Vincent Brosseau, Joshua Cholette-Hébert, Ian MacDonald, Andrew Dore and goaltenders Eli Lampi and Jacob Bradley, both of whom recorded a shutout over the course of the weekend.

The Atom "A" North Stars will make a second straight appearance at the International event after Marc Smith snapped a 2-2 tie with just 2:10 to play, lifting the Nickel City reps past the Kanata Blazers 3-2.

The 2016-2017 edition of the team will head to Sarnia in mid January with a lineup that includes netminders Maverick Fletcher and Layne MacDonald, as well as skaters Justin Barriault, Noah McCauley, Miguel Dauphinais, Noah Portelance, Zackery Lepage, Brady Soucy, Mathieu Brassard, Carson Gaudet, Jacob Hayes, Matthew Murphy, Ryan Lavallee, Brady Boucher, Boston Renaud and Smith.

Rounding out the local winners were coach Jason Young and the Novice "AA" Jr Sons, who trimmed the Soo Peewee Selects Novices 1-0. Later in the day, in the largest of the divisional brackets that were contested, the Ottawa Sting and Gloucester Rangers treated hockey fans to one of the best games of the tournament.

Advancing to the finals from a field of 11 teams, the Ottawa-based tandem finished regulation time deadlocked at 2-2, as goals from Chris Egener and Carter Harris Fowell of the Sting were offset by Ranger replies courtesy of Sean Carroll and Corbin Dimmel.

Though the teams traded chances through 4 on 4 and 3 and 3 sessions, as Gloucester puckstopper Sean Symes came through with a particularly key game-saving breakaway stop, it would be two on two hockey which would decide matters.

There, speedster Jackson Damas would shine, darting to open ice and burying the deciding goal only 31 seconds before the teams would have duked it out with a final one on one period.

Rounding out the list of Regional hardware winners were:

Minor Midget "AA" - Soo Root River

Bantam "AA" - Kanata Blazers

Bantam "A" - Wellington Fusion

Minor Bantam "A" - Aurora Tigers

Peewee "AA" - Markham Waxers

Peewee "A" - Huntsville Otters

Minor Peewee "AA" - Barrie Colts

Atom "AA" - Mississauga Terriers

Minor Atom "AA" - Soo Jr Greyhounds

Novice "A" - Kapuskasing Hawks
 


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