The Canadians won 5-2, and following the game I had an opportunity to conduct several interviews with coaches/players from both sides:
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| BCMML Week 12 Recap – Sunday Games (Richmond Oval – Richmond, BC)—Dante Hannoun scored twice and Josh Murphy added a goal and two assists, as the Greater Vancouver Canadians completed a weekend series sweep of the Fraser Valley Thunderbirds with a 5-2 victory in BC Major Midget League action on Sunday afternoon at the Richmond Oval. The game was scoreless until late in the first period, when Hannoun scored his team-leading 12th goal of the year with 1:23 remaining. Ryan Jones, Nathan McCarman, and Murphy then scored for the Canadians in a span of 3 minutes and 5 seconds midway through the second period as Greater Vancouver jumped out to a 4-1 lead. Hannoun added his 13th goal of the year, his second of the game, late in the third period to ice the game or the Canadians. He leads Greater Vancouver in goals and points (26). Despite the victory, the Canadians thought they could have been better in the second period. “I thought we started off pretty strong,” said Canadians head coach Phil Alalouf. “I thought the first period was great. The second period, I think we sat back a little bit when we were up 4-1. And then the third period, we closed it out, which is good. The guys battled well.” “It was a good team win,” added Canadians goaltender Tyler Shugrue, who notched his seventh win of the year. “We all did well as a team, except the second period [when] we kind of dipped off a little bit. For the most part it was a good team effort, and we got the win.” By winning both of their games against Fraser Valley this weekend, Greater Vancouver (11-10-1) took sole possession of fourth place in the BCMML standings, one point ahead of the Vancouver North East Chiefs (9-9-4). Hayden Guilderson had a goal and an assist for the Thunderbirds (8-12-2), who were swept in the season series against the Canadians. “It doesn’t seem like we match up very well with this team,” said Thunderbirds head coach Bill Grieve. “We’ve played them now five times, and we’ve got five losses [against] this team. We don’t match up with their speed, and we didn’t have a very good weekend this weekend.” Elsewhere in the BCMML… In Rossland, Tyson Jost and Branden Wagner each scored two goals, leading the first-place Okanagan Rockets (18-3-1) to an 8-1 victory over the Kootenay Ice (3-15-4). Wagner also added an assist, giving him a three-point game, while Jost continued his torrid scoring pace with his 18th and 19th goals in only 18 games. According to the Rockets’ official website, Okanagan’s shutout streak against Kootenay reached 544 minutes and 18 seconds before it was finally snapped at 18:33 of the second period when Coy Prevost scored the Ice’s lone goal of the game. The Rockets swept the season series from the Ice, outscoring them 34-1 in four games. At Planet Ice in Coquitlam, Matthew Hermary scored twice as the Vancouver North East Chiefs defeated the South Island Royals 4-2. Hermary had three goals in the weekend series, giving him eight for the season. The Chiefs (9-9-4) remain in fifth place, three points ahead of the Royals (8-11-3), in a tight six-team race for fourth spot. At the Langley Sportsplex, the Valley West Hawks (15-6-1) and the Cariboo Cougars (8-12-2) battled to a 1-1 tie, with Ty Westgard’s power-play goal with 5:12 remaining in the game salvaging a point for the Hawks. The tie snapped a five-game losing skid for the Cougars, who got a first-period goal from Colton Thomas. In Kamloops, Cole Clifford and Josh Pilon scored in the third period to snap a 2-2 tie as the Thompson Blazers (2-14-6) earned their second victory of the season, defeating the North Island Silvertips (8-11-3) by a score of 4-2. The Silvertips went up 2-0 on first-period tallies by Mathieu Jallabert and Hunter Findlater, but the Blazers stormed back with four answered goals for the win. |
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