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| Burnaby Winter Club: Notice Board |
May 21, 2013
BWC / Burnaby Central Elite 15 Hockey Academy Team |
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The Burnaby Winter Club and Burnaby Central High School Elite 15 Hockey Academy Team wish to invite all 1998 born players to their inaugural season tryouts. You do not have to be a BWC member to participate.
Practice #1: Tues June 4th at 5:45-6:45 pm
Practice #2: Wed June 5th at 8:30-9:30 pm
Game #1: Sat June 8th at 12:30-1:45 pm
Game #2: Sun June 9th at 12:30-1:45 pm
All sessions are at the Burnaby Winter Club
4990 Canada Way, Burnaby, BC V5G 1M4
The cost is $100 and payable to Burnaby Winter Club.
You must drop the payment off at the BWC Office during business hours, Mon-Fri 9:30-5:30pm prior to tryouts.
Please confirm with Leland Mack through email at lelandmack@hotmail.com that you will be attending. |
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May 3, 2013
BWC joins new school hockey league |
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BWC joins new school hockey league
By Tom Berridge, Burnaby Now May 3, 2013
The Burnaby Winter Club and Burnaby Central Secondary School are joining forces to form a midget hockey academy that will compete in the Canadian Sports School Hockey League this fall.
The elite school league, founded in 2009, will compete in an under-18 prep division for grades 11 and 12 students and a new elite 15s division against academy teams from Alberta, the Okanagan, and Lower Mainland teams from Abbotsford and South Delta.
"Strategically we needed to be in this game and here we are doing it," said BWC general manager Len McNeely.
The school league differs from Burnaby North's school academy in that it caters to a specific elite age group. It also is not in direct competition with the existing B.C. major midget hockey league and the Northwest Giants, which are also based at the winter club.
The prep team is most likely to be made up of players who will not make it on a major midget roster. The elite 15s addresses an age-group gap on most existing major midget clubs and an opportunity for 15-year-old players to compete in something other than what exists at the association level, said McNeely.
"Few (15-year-olds) made it on major midget teams. There was a void there and an important need to play at a higher level of competition. It's addressing that particular void," he added.
Ian Gallagher, director of hockey operations at the South Delta academy, was a main driver in helping expand the existing school league to include a total of nine teams in one or the other of the two divisions.
The Burnaby Winter Club will compete in both divisions, along with South
Delta, Okanagan Hockey Academy in Penticton, Pursuit of Excellence in Kelowna, Edge School Sports in Calgary and Banff Academy.
Former Greater Vancouver major midget coach Leland Mack, who also spent two seasons as an assistant with the Giants, will be the head coach of the younger elite school team. A coach for the prep team will be named at a later date, said McNeely.
The winter club academy will offer elite coaching, high school graduation credits, a more than 50-game schedule, as well as on-ice and dry land training.
Players will be selected based on evaluation skates likely to be held later this month. The teams will train and compete from September to June.
Academy players would also be eligible to affiliate with junior teams, said McNeely.
The academy program was approved by the Burnaby School District last week.
The moves will not affect the club's existing affiliations with the Giants and the Grandview Steelers of the Pacific Junior Hockey League, said McNeely. The club's midget A1 rep team will also be available for club members to compete with at the Pacific Coast association level.
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Read more: http://www.burnabynow.com/sports/joins+school+hockey+league/8332202/story.html#ixzz2SFwAeKPn |
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May 3, 2013
Winter club skaters taken high in WHL draft |
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Winter club skaters taken high in WHL draft
By Tom Berridge and Dan Olson, Burnaby Now May 3, 2013
The Burnaby Winter Club put three players from its Tier 1 bantam A1 hockey team into the first round of the Western Hockey League bantam draft on Thursday.
Dante Fabbro, a 6-0 right-handed defenceman, was picked up eighth overall by the Seattle Thunderbirds.
The 15-year-old Fabbro will join best friend and winter club product Mathew Barzal, who garnered 103 points, including a record 74 assists, with the Northeast Chiefs of the B.C. Major Midget Hockey League last season. Barzal signed with the T-Birds on May 1.
"Wow, I'm extremely excited not just to be drafted but to be going to the same team as Mat," Fabbro, 14, told Coquitlam NOW sports editor Dan Olson. "This was something we definitely discussed before the draft, but to have it happen is just incredible. . When Seattle called my name, Mat called me about 10 seconds later."
"I'm super excited," Barzal said. "I'm really hoping he'll sign. He's a phenomenal player and one of my best friends.
"He's a great player and in my opinion the best (1998) defence-man around. . He's a competitor and he never lets you beat him. For me, he's tough to get around. When we did one-on-one drills, he was a monster to work against."
Vancouver forward Jake Kryski also went in the opening round, drafted 13th by the Prince Albert Raiders.
Another winter club defenceman, Matt Barberis, could play his future junior hockey closer to home. The 5-10 defender went to the Vancouver Giants in the 20th spot following an earlier deal that sent David Musil to the Edmonton Oil Kings.
As suspected the Giants drafted consensus first overall Tyler Benson from the South Side Athletic Club in Edmonton with the No. 1 pick.
This year, the Edmonton forward broke the Alberta midget league record for the most points in a season, tallying 146 points, including 57 goals in 33 games for the regular season and Western Canadian champs.
A fourth winter club product, forward Jaeger White, will be going back to his home province after been taken in the fourth round by Lethbridge with the 72nd pick acquired from Regina.
Burnaby goalie Tyler Shugrue was also picked up by Vancouver, going in the fifth round 102nd overall with a pick acquired from the Red Deer Rebels. Owen Seidel went in the seventh round to Swift Current.
"(The draft) kind of fell into the spots we thought it was going to fall into," said Burnaby Winter Club bantam head coach John Batchelor, who was surprised Fabbro was not selected in the seven spot by the Everett Silvertips.
But in the end, Batchelor added the draft worked out well for Fabbro, his best friend Barzal and the Thunderbirds.
"I talked with Dante and he's happy to go to Seattle, Seattle's happy to have him and Matty (Barzal) is happy to have him.
"All in all, I'm pretty happy and hope we get a few more (players drafted)."
© Copyright (c) Burnaby Now
Read more: http://www.burnabynow.com/life/Winter+club+skaters+taken+high+draft/8332203/story.html#ixzz2SGAs9R1P |
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March 6, 2013
Movie night a hit: Suggestion by Tigers overager becomes reward, Ice stop by for clash tonight . |
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Monday was movie night for the Medicine Hat Tigers.
The popcorn will keep flowing if they can keep winning.
Thanks to a suggestion from overage centre Elgin Pearce, the team earned the reward for winning an imaginary playoff series which began earlier this month. Their 5-4 victory over Red Deer Sunday clinched the best-of-seven in its sixth game.
"It was actually my idea to do a series thing for a movie night," said Pearce, whose Tigers host his former team, the Kootenay Ice, tonight at 7 p.m. "The coaches have kept doing it since then.
"They've implemented it in our game plan."
While breaking the season up into smaller bits is far from revolutionary ÑÊhead coach Shaun Clouston set up a faux series back in December, for example ÑÊit has certainly proved beneficial. In a crowded pack near the eighth spot only a few weeks ago, Medicine Hat has won eight of its past 10 games to vault into sixth in the WHL's Eastern Conference.
"It's just a situation where because of the standings, the win or your season's over (mentality) came a little bit earlier for us," said Clouston. "All we've tried to do is stress the importance of each game."
Monday's movie pick was Snitch, starring Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson. Pearce said the pro wrestler's acting chops have improved, which comes as much of a surprise as the potential of the Tigers to gain a home playoff series this spring.
After spending most of the season outside of the playoff picture entirely, they're now just five points back of fourth-place Red Deer.
"If we have success in the next couple games, we won't take the last couple lightly at all," said Pearce. "I think that's the goal right now is to get a home playoff spot. I think we can achieve it for sure."
Beating the red-hot Ice in two straight will be a tough chore. Kootenay, currently five points up on Lethbridge for the No. 8 spot, was dead last in the conference before winning 12 of 13 games through January. They're on another four-game winning streak entering tonight's action and host the Tigers Saturday to conclude the season series between the clubs.
"They're one of the best teams in the league in the second half, so we know we've got a tough opponent coming up," said Clouston.
Pearce knows all too well how dangerous the Ice can be, having played there for three seasons before a trade sent him east. It's been a few months but the Port Coquitlam, B.C. native still has an easy time finding motivation on nights like these.
"Every game you want to prove to them that they made a mistake by trading you," he said. "It adds a little more motivation."
Pearce has 28 goals and 42 assists so far, both career highs. That's more points than the combined totals of the overagers the Ice kept in Brock Montgomery (27 goals, 13 assists) and defenceman Joey Leach (five goals, 20 assists).
But the primary motivation remains finishing strong. Pearce thinks that could serve the Tigers well beyond the regular season.
"I think teams that have success in the playoffs have started playing playoff hockey before the playoffs have started," he said. "I think that's what we're doing right now, coaches have implemented in that we're playing playoff series. We're in a good spot right now."
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August 24, 2012
Goalie backstops Canada to win over Americans |
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Kimberley Newell of Burnaby showed she is Team Canada's goalie of the future following two wins in a three-game under-18 women's hockey series against the United States.
Newell backstopped Canada's national youth team to a 5-4 shootout victory over the Americans in Blaine, Minnesota on Sunday.
The win, Newell's second in two starts in the cross-border series, gave Canada a 2-1 victory in the three game exhibition series.
Canada was leading the U.S. 4-1 in the third period, when the Americans mounted a comeback, tallying three times in the final five minutes to force an overtime.
"You can't get caught up with those thoughts. It's all about refocusing on the shots to come and I think that's what helped me," said Newell. "The U.S. wasn't giving up, they were coming in hard."
But following a scoreless extra-time period, Newell was rock solid in the cage, stopping both U.S. shooters in the all-important penalty shootout.
"I knew if I got it to the shootout, it's one of my specialties. I was confident I could pull out a win," Newell added.
Canada's Ashleigh Brykaliuk and Karly Heffernan both scored for the Maple Leaf.
Newell stopped a total of 36 shots in the final game.
The Burnaby Winter Club product also registered 41 stops in Canada's 3-2 victory over the U.S. in the opening game of the series on Aug. 16. Newell did not play in Canada's 3-1 loss in Game 2 on Friday.
"I'm really excited with how we've been doing. I'm sure we'll do really well when it comes to the worlds." said Newell.
The 16-year-old graduated early and will be leaving for Princeton University next week.
"I'm excited. I really want to go there," she said.
© Copyright (c) Burnaby Now
Read more: http://www.burnabynow.com/Goalie+backstops+Canada+over+Americans/7126859/story.html#ixzz24VgYxpiT |
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