Boys league game recaps from the Nov. 19-21 weekend. The game recaps are supplied by the home team and posted when they are received, coupled with the availability of the webmaster. 

Friday, Nov. 19

Avon View 5 – NKEC 1

On Friday evening in Canning the NKEC Titans were hosting the undefeated Avon View Avalanche. This game was also a Pink in the Rink game. Proceeds of the game will be going directly to families who are being impacted by cancer.

Going into the game Vegas had the Titans as heavy underdogs and as soon as the puck was dropped the visiting team showed everyone why they are the team to beat.  The Avalanche were able to set the tone and control much of the play throughout the game, but the Titans were doing their best to keep things close and to give it all they had. 

Avon View struck first with a goal by Gavin Sheehy, but the home side was able to tie things up 45 seconds later with Daeshawn Fletcher's first goal of the season.  The Avalanche were able to capitalize on their strong forecheck 5 minutes later by getting a goal from Cody Richards.  The first period ended with the visiting side leading by one.

Going into the second period the Titans felt like they were still in the game and with a little hard work and a good bounce you never know what could happen.  The Avalanche wanted none of this and quickly scored two goals by Eric Giswold and Brayden Jodrey to take a commanding 4 - 1 lead. 

Heading into the third the Titans had a goal of winning the third period and to hopefully become a better team because of this experience.  Things looked good until Carter Hood netted his first of the game to make the final score 5 - 1 for the Avalanche.  The Titans played hard and the coaching staff were really proud of their efforts, but the better team won the matchup.  Thank you to all of the fans and supporters who came out to cheer on the two teams and help support a worthy cause.

Horton 10 – Clare 3

The Horton Griffins made their way to Church Point on Friday to take on the Clare Loups. Horton opened up a 5-0 lead after 20 minutes of play with goals coming from Lachlin Levy with a hat trick and 2 goals from Aidan MacEwan.

The second period saw Horton outscore Clare 4-3 as the Griffins took a 9-3 lead after 40 minutes. Scoring for the Griffins were Avery Buckle, Mac Harnum, Brady Clarke & Ryan Quigley. Replying for Clare were Nicholas Gaudet, Nema Hanna & Logan Comeau.

Horton scored the only goal in the 3rd period as Lachlin Levy added his 4th goal of the game.

Ryan Young got the win in nets for Horton while Mathieu LeBlanc (6GA) and Cohen Neil (4 GA) shared the net in the loss for Clare.

Scorers for Horton: Lachlin Levy 4G & 1A,  Cayden Anderson 3A, Aidan MacEwan 2G & 1A, Ryan Quigley 1G & 2A, Brady Clarke 1G & 1A, Hugo Sorbetti 2A, Avery Buckle 1G, Mac Harnum 1G, Brett King 1A, Jesse Bidgood 1A, CJ Zinck 1A, Angus MacLeod 1A & Colin Tracey 1A.

Scorers for Clare: Logan Comeau 1G & 1A, Nicholas Gaudet 1G, Nema Hanna 1G, Zack Comeau 1A, Michel Comeau 1A, Chad Reddick 1A.

Saturday, Nov. 20

Central Kings 8 – NKEC 3

The first period showed very strong play from all NKEC lines carrying the bulk of the play.  NKEC struck first at 15:52 of the first with a shot from the point by Ethan Escott redirected in front of the CK net by Will Harris (Harris, from Escott, Durling).  NKEC continued to dominate the period with passes out of their zone, transitioning to offense quickly.  NKEC outshot CK 18-4, Locke Albrecht had a very strong period to keep the score within one, end of period one, NKEC 1 – CK 0.

NKEC’s Adam Harris opened the scoring in the second period at 18:56 on a breakaway with a nice finish in the top corner (Harris, from Escott).  CK scored at the 12:02 mark of the second with a nice passing play from Cody Hebb to Sam Rogers with Connor Hanninen tapping in a shot in the crease making it 2-1.  CK evened up the score at 9:53 of the second, with a pass from Rogers near the blueline to Hebb, pulling the puck to backhand to finish to make it 2-2.  CK took the lead 3-2 at the 6:15 mark of the second with Ethan Wood tapping in a puck in the crease (Wood, from Rogers, Turner).  Sam Rogers rounded out in the second period on a breakaway (from Logie).  End of the second, Shots CK 22, NKEC 27, Score CK 4 ­ – NKEC 2.

CK’s Ryan Turner opened the scoring in the third period @17:49 (unassisted).  NKEC scored their third with a very strong forecheck by all three forwards, with Mac Sinclair scoring (from Brown, Angerman).  CK scoring was rounded out for @5:27 Ryan Turner (from Rogers), Cody Hebb @3:21 (Hebb, Hanninen, and Rogers), and Nathan Langille (Langille, from Schurman, and Meister).

Game Summary, CK shots 34, NKEC shots 35.

Final Score CK 8 – NKEC 3

Horton 8 – Digby 1

On Saturday night, Digby travelled to Kentville to take on the Horton Griffins. Digby had a short bench with only 12 skaters but worked hard for the entire game. 

The Griffins started the scoring 2 minutes and 22 seconds into the game with a goal by Hugo Sorbetti. Digby then responded 7 minutes later to tie the game. 

After this, Horton scored 7 unanswered goals during the game with the scoring led by Mac Harnum and Colin Tracey who both had their first hat-tricks for the Griffins. 

It should be noted that Digby had several good chances that Mason Veinotte had to come up with big saves and Digby fought hard right to the end of the game. 

The game was a very clean game with only 6 penalties in total. 

Points:

Digby:

Goal scored by # 16 Brett Hall assisted by Kaiden Longmire and Cory Stark. 

Horton:

Hugo Sorbetti - 1 goal and an assist 

Colin Tracey - 3 goals

Mac Harnum - 3 goals 

CJ Zink - 2 assists

Brady Clarke - 3 assists 

Jesse Bidgood - 1 goal and 1 assist

Aidan MacEwan - 2 assists

Brett King - 1 assist 

Glen Murray tournament:

Several league teams took part in the Glen Murray Tournament hosted by Park View over the weekend. After defeating the Par-en-Bas Sharks in overtime in one of the semi-final games, the host Panthers were edged out by Citadel High in the championship game by a score of 4-3.