Coach’s Corner with Head Coach Bruce Aberhart

This year’s try-out camp was probably the most competitive camp that I have ever experienced since joining the Flags as Head Coach. We had a very successful exhibition season. We had a lot of players try-out and they all played hard and competed well, which made out decisions even more difficult. As a coaching staff, we made some good solid choices to select our players. We’ve formulated a good solid line-up – we have a solid line-up of forwards, we have a good mixture of experienced veteran and newly acquired defensemen and we have a good mixture in goal with veteran Jordan Gladwich and newcomer Colton James. With the line-up we have in place we should be able to put on quite a show for our fans.    

Now is the time to get down to business with the commencement of a new season. Every team in the league starts the beginning of the season with the same goal in mind and that is to get out of the gate early so as to win as many games as possible. Experience has been that the teams who get off to a quick start putting victories in the win column usually are the teams who do well throughout the season. We want to part of this group of teams to win some early games and not wait until October. So we need to get in the win column right from the get go! 

View from the Top of the Flagpole with President Bob Barnes

Welcome back to another exciting season of Mooretown Flags JR. C Hockey Action.

As you view the line-up you’ll see some new faces and some familiar faces on the team and on the coaching staff. Firstly we have signed some more Mooretown Minor Hockey Players, some new Sarnia players and a player from Forest to compliment our returning veterans. We extend a warm welcome back to our Head Coach Bruce Aberhart and his assistant coaches Dara Emslie, newcomers Jordan Pennesi and Seth Lippiatt. We are ecstatic to have these men leading our team to hopefully another successful year. This year they will be complimented by General Manager Jim Drexler, Trainer Perry Van… and Equipment Personnel Bill Gunness, Norm Hansen and Joe Rodrigues.

I extend a very warm welcome back, to my fellow executive members and booster club members, who have worked extremely hard in our fund-raising initiatives and team activities. Also you will notice a new face on our executive namely Tim Workman. We welcome him aboard and we thank him for sharing his talent and the work load on our club, which entails our various fund raising events and team activities.

This year we are once again affiliated with the Sarnia Legionnaires JR. B Club. We are very pleased to be affiliated with such a first class organization, one with such rich history and multi year successes.

This season we all hope to bring an excellent, exciting and winning hockey team to you, the fans, to watch on a nightly basis. We thank you for being our loyal fans and once again we thank you for your supporting the Mooretown Flags!