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Mar 20, 2016 | Mbrennan | 4347 views
2015-2016 All-Ontario Pee Wee B Champions
Last night the boys celebrated the much deserved All-Ontario Championship long into the night. Coach Ken and Katherine hosted yet another splendid get-together.

By defeating Petrolia 3-0, the team successfully played through the OMHA Playdowns without suffering a single loss. The team certainly met different challenges in each series, and rose to each adversity. At the final buzzer in Petrolia, Listowel had out-scored their opponents 50-9, with Josh posting 7 shut-outs in 12 games.

The Listowel Cyclones Pee Wee’s put themselves in a category unique in OMHA history by sweeping Saugeen Shores, Ennismore, Penetang, and Petrolia in the OMHA Playdowns. To breakdown the formula as to how this came about, I will explain.

The tic-tac-toe passing with Maddox, Chet, and Carter Servais, causing opposing goalies to turn back and forth endlessly in an effort to find the puck, created countless goal lights to flash. This line of veterans passed the puck like no other team they faced all year. If this line wasn’t scoring, it was never from lack of effort. What Benny lacks in height, he more than makes that up by thinking he is the biggest man on the ice. Connor always had the opposition guessing as to where the puck was going to go when it came to him on the wing. Kristopher almost dares opposing players to try to take the puck away. Kris’ power on the puck won him countless battles. Bret potted goals from unlikely spots and seemed to have an uncanny ability to know just exactly when the team needed one. Owen, with his quiet demeanour, let his stick do most of the talking on the ice. Camden’s hockey sense puts him in key positions on the ice at opportune times, netting him many scoring chances. Matt broke up many opposing rushes in the neutral zone with his long reach, and quiet stick-on-puck approach to defending. Tayttum is the guy on the back-end that when the ice opens up, there is no hesitation to expose the gap and rush the length of the ice to throw the opposing team off. Carter Coates has the sense to pinch both in the neutral zone, and in the offensive zone when it mattered most. The result always ended up keeping the puck in our possession. Jordan has the shot from the point that, more often than not, either found its way through for a goal, or ended up being another rebound for the forwards. Colin, with his height and strength made his mark by making sure the opposing team’s biggest scoring threat was no threat in front of Josh. Speaking of Josh is hard to do without mentioning his 27 shut-outs this season so far. On the rare occasion when the puck got through the fore-checkers and the defence, the mesh in the net hardly moved with the skilled Josh protecting his house. Thanks to Jack for backing up Josh on the road to the Championship.

Now the formula could have been as I have stated, or maybe it was Brent and Brett guiding the defence, or the direction from Rick to the forwards, or maybe the direction from Coach Ken. Or maybe, just maybe the secret to the success of the team was from the ‘Hawk’. Flying high above, circling, making sure all is in order from collecting money, to managing hotel bookings, to filling water bottles, to keeping the right amount of players on the ice (most of the time), to co-ordinating practices, and the list goes on and on. Having the right Team Manager makes everyone else’s job, dare I say it, almost easy. Well done Hawk!

As of now, the Pee Wee’s record stands at 55-3-4 with a 3-game series left with Shallow Lake. The team's first loss occurred to Grimsby in the Championship Game in the St. Thomas Tournament early in the season. As of last night, Grimsby also were crowned All-Ontario Champions in the OMHA A Division.

Every boy had to do what they were good at for this team to be the OMHA Champions.

CONGRATULATIONS BOYS !!!!!

Article written by All-Star Chess Champion and Team Reporter, Dean Williams.  Photo by Patrick Brennan.