My Boy’s Gonna Play in the Big Leagues

Tales from the Timebox: December 6th, 2016

Who knows one of these little guys could be the next Connor McDavid ? They look a lot like bumper cars out on the ice, knocking each other over harmlessly. Stumbling to get up , then full speed ahead until they hit the wall and fall down again.   Talk about exciting . The first home game of the year for the micro novice is always exciting for the parents and grand parents , their little son or daughter , or grandson or granddaughter  is for sure the best player on the ice. Hat tricks for Wyatt’ Earp’ Fontaine, Denys Kuba and Jaxon Smith.

Teamwork. There’s no ‘I’ in teamwork!! This is what I call a sign of a good teamwork .  When you score eight  goals by eight different players it means you have a very good team effort not just one or two individuals    The midget Avalanche rolling right along defeated  Mallaig on Friday night . 8 to 5.  Count them eight different goal scorers, Angus ‘ Micky’ McFarlane, Nick ‘ Sparky’ Anderson, Warren ‘ Warrior ‘ Ference Bowen ‘ Bam Bam’ Krider, Chad ‘ Pick Pocket’ Poitras, ‘Captain Obvious’ Austin Stafford, Brody ‘ The Big O’ Odgaard, and Hayden ‘ Hot Wheels’ Ludlage all scoring one each and at least one assist each. In the middle of it all, set up man, Kyle ‘ Ketshup’ Kjenner with a few helpers . On Sunday the boys travelled to Mannville and it was still a team effort, but it sounds like they didn’t bring their A team  with them,  losing 6 to 4.  ‘ Captain Obvious’ leading the way with two goals ,  ‘ Bam Bam’ banging in one, and the fast and furious ‘ Pick Pocket ‘ also putting one upstairs into the mesh, ‘ Big O’ , Ketchup and ‘Sparky’ assisting.

Marwayne and Kitscoty have always produced good hockey players when both towns had teams,  so if you combined both towns to make a team naturally they would be good . And throw in a few Dewberry kids to boot and you have an awesome team. It was a bit of an eye opener for our guys who have had it fairly easy this year in the league up to now, and maybe they needed that just that to keep them hungry . The bantam Avalanche suffered a 10 to 3 loss on Saturday at home to the hands of the Kitscoty /Marwayne team ,’ King Cole’ Bendixen, Dallas ‘Cowboy’ Bristow and ‘ Lightning Liam’ Ludlage the only ones to find the twine, Jace ‘ the Stafford Streak’ and Jaden ‘ Jetstream’ Van Maarion with the assists.

Its been a rough road  all year for head coach Robyn Moroziuk and the peewee Avalanche , but it got even tougher when the peewee Avalanche took on Mallaig , one of the best teams in the league on Saturday at home, losing by double digits. ‘Mic Jager’ Fontaine the only goals scorer for the Avalanche , Josef’ Red’ Theriault with the assist.

Smooth sailing and another two big wins for head coach James Capjack and the Atom Avalanche who are sitting with a 10  wins and 1 loss on the season, Against Lac La Biche on Saturday the boys won 6 to 2. ‘ King Kong Konnor’ Poitras with two goals, Cash ‘CC’ Capjack with a goal and three assists, Sam ‘ Spiderman’ Rogal with a goal and an assist, Phoenix Quinney-Canning , and ‘Top Gunner’ Crawford, with one goal each. Vaughn ‘ Vulture’ Ockerman with an assist . Then on Sunday Lloydminster were in town, the Avalanche winning again, this one 9 to 1, . Cash ‘ CC’ Capjack cranking up the cash register ringing in  four goals , ‘ King Kong Konnor’ with a natural hat trick, Ryan ‘ Ram Rod’ Cameron and Top Gunner’ Crawford with one each, solid D Man ‘St Nic’ Penner with three assists, ‘Bo Diddley’ Fontaine,  ‘ the Vulture;  and Phoenix Quinney -Canning all with an assists.

The novice 1 B team played in St. Paul on Saturday winning 12 to 9 . A hat trick for Kaysen DeMoissac , Braylee ‘ BJ’ Lesyk, and his brother ‘Good Time Charlie’ Charlotte Henderson with two goals, Miles Koren and Kale Ockerman with one each. Brendan Kadutski getting in on the assists.

And now for the K. A. Campbell quote of the week. ‘Ability is what you’re capable of doing . Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it .’ – Lou Holtz