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Storm Atom AE Win Silver Medal as Tournament
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Game 1
- Mooretown 4 Petrolia 0
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In the opening game of the Mooretown
Tournament the Storm met up
with the always tough
Petrolia Oilers.
The game opened with a quick
pace and Ethan Dupont staked
the Storm to a 1-0 lead
midway through the 1st. His
quick shot off the right
wing beat the goalie high on
the short side after he was
sent in alone on a lead pass
from Brett Farr.
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The game
stayed fast and physical with the Storm
carrying much of the play but not
generating many good scoring chances as
Petrolia was content to collapse around
their goalie and shoot the puck out of
the zone at
every
opportunity.
In the
Mooretown net Kaden Fulcher was ready
when needed and left the game at the
halfway point with his team clinging to
a one goal lead. Kyler Raymond came on
and continued where Fulcher left off by
not giving Petrolia any openings to tie
the game.
In the 3rd
period the Storm finally wore down their
opponents with their physical play and hard
skating to pop in three more unanswered
goals. Cooper Muxlow, on a nice deke,
scored from Trevor Bogaert and Christian
Lyle to get the insurance marker the Storm
needed early in the period. Then, just 18
seconds apart late in the period, Anysley
Harrison scored on a great deflection of a
point blast from Farr, and Dupont, with his
second of the game, from Hayden Gardner,
rounded out the scoring for a solid win.
Game 2 -
Mooretown 2 Georgina 4
With a day off
school the Storm got taught a lesson in giving
a little too much room to a big and physical
Georgina Blaze squad.
The Storm found themselves shorthanded just
11 seconds into the game and Georgina got on
the board on the ensuing powerplay at the
one minute mark. With Georgina out working
the Storm they upped their lead to 2 just a
minute and a half later.
The Storm
finally decided to get their game faces on
and began to battle back cutting the lead to
2-1 with just under 3 minutes left in the
1st on a powerplay goal by Kirk Smith
assisted by Cooper Muxlow. The momentum was
short lived as Georgina restored their 2
goal lead with a goal in the last minute.
Mooretown then played even up the rest of
the game, swapping goals in the 2nd Period
and playing a scoreless 3rd. Ethan Dupont
continued with his hot stick tipping in a
hard point shot by Griffin Dillabough on the
powerplay for Mooretown's second marker.
Kyler Raymond
started in goal and fought hard to keep his
team in the game after their lack lustre
start. Raymond was on the spot for the
initial save but wasn't able to bail his
team out as Georgina's goals came on
scrambles in the crease after 2nd and 3rd
rebounds could not get cleared away.
Kaden Fulcher
came in for the second half and was tested
early, having to make a spectacular glove
save on the first shot he faced. Fulcher
continued to shine and keep Georgina from
scoring the rest of the way.
The Storm should
be commended on the way the shook off the
opening 3 minutes to finish with a very
complete game from that point on and play
even against a team of all Major Atom
players.
Game 3 -
Mooretown 5 Bracebridge 0
With a day and a
half of rest the Storm faced off against the
Bracebridge Bears in a game that would
decide who would face Georgina in the
Finals.
Mooretown came
out flying and set the tone early with some
big hits.
Kaden Fulcher
and Kyler Raymond shared the shutout as both
were steady when called upon.
It would take
until the final minute of the 1st Period for
the Storm to get on the board as some solid
forechecking paid off with Christian Lyle
burying a high backhander after a nice pass
from Trevor Bogaert. Cooper Muxlow also
picked up an assist.
The Storm
dominated the 2nd Period scoring three
times, the first two while shorthanded as
they ran into some penalty trouble. Ethan
Dupont scored just 8 seconds into the period
as his long shot found its way under the
goalie's pads. Ben Anderson, sent in alone
by Griffin Dillabough, fired home another
goal 2 minutes later. Dupont then got loose
and in full stride at the top of the circle
ripped a shot under the cross bar with
assists going to Luke Simon and Hayden
Gardner.
With a 4 goal
lead and 10 minutes to the play the Storm
kept up the physical play and made sure
Bracebridge did not get any quality
chances. Trevor Bogaert then scored a well
deserved goal in the dying seconds to finish
the scoring and send the Storm into the
Championship game for a rematch against
Georgina.
Championship Game - Mooretown 0 Georgina 3
The Storm met up
with a very strong Blaze
team to decide the Atom AE Championship.
The
two teams were evenly matched as Mooretown
came out hard ready to avenge their round
robin loss.
Georgina opened
the scoring 3 minutes into the game after an
odd man rush in the neutral zone sent one of
their players in on a breakaway. Kyler
Raymond came up with a huge save only to
look on helplessly as the trailer on the
play outreached the Storm backchecker and
poked in the rebound laying in the crease.
Raymond came up with several more big saves
in keeping a hard shooting Georgina team at
bay the rest way until handing over the
reins to Kaden Fulcher.
Mooretown
mounted attack after attack but were turned
away by a steady Georgina goalie and were
always pursued by strong backchecking. The
Storm had 3 breakaways of their own but were
just not lucky this time around.
Fulcher
continued his strong play in the Storm net
as the game wound down. With the
Storm putting on the pressure to get
the equalizer it looked like the game was in
for a furious finish but with just 3 minutes
remaining Georgina put the puck on net from
a sharp angle and got a lucky bounce that
saw the puck slide just over the goal line
before Fulcher could react.
The Storm pulled
their goalie for an extra attacker in the
last minute, but with a player in the box
weren't able to get the man advantage and
Georgina iced the game with an empty netter
with 28 seconds to go.
In what was a
essentially a 1-0 game, the Storm stayed
neck in neck with a Georgina team that was
the class of the division allowing only 2
goals in their 4 games.
The Storm
represented Mooretown very well as each
player competed their hardest every shift,
but most importantly, played great as a
team. It was a well deserved silver medal.
The Storm
continue League play next weekend visiting league-leading Strathroy
on Friday and hosting East Lambton on
Saturday.
