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Colts Host Eastern Canada
Cup All-Star Challenge
By Jordan Todd
he Eastern Canada Cup All-
TStar challenge wrapped up in
Cornwall on November 18, as the
team from the Quebec Junior Hockey
League defeated the Yzerman team
from the Central Canada Hockey
League 2-0.
The tournament’s unique format
pits top players from a number
of leagues against each other in
shortened games. This year included
four teams from the Ontario Junior
Hockey League, two from the CCHL,
and one each from the Northern
Ontario Junior Hockey League, the
QJHL, and the Maritime Hockey says Abrams, was a no brainer.
League. The purpose, explains
CCHL Commission Kevin Abrams,
who helped spearhead the new all-
star setup five years ago, is to make
the games more competitive.
“Most all-star games are hard to in Cornwall it ends up being really
watch and not very good gauges of successful, so it came as no surprise
a player’s ability,” he says. “This that it was a successful three days.”
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happens is you’ve got different Sports Memory?
leagues with natural rivalries there,
and guys want to perform well.”
With the increased intensity Nick Laforest
level, it’s become a major event on
the scouting calendar. According Roxborough
to Abrams, over 170 organizations
were on hand for the event between Gardens
the NCAA, CIS, and CHL.
“My favourite sports
“It’s less about who wins and
memory was the
more about how all the guys
perform,” says Abrams. “And all feeling of pride when
the guys that are there to watch get my son Aiden got his
an opportunity to see a lot of good
first shutout. He plays
players all in one setting.”
for the novice C NGS
Having the event in Cornwall, Braves. It’s his first
year out of the Initiation
“They’ve got a great group of
Program and his first year in
volunteers and a really strong and
motivated community that gets between the pipes. I’m having
behind these kind of events,” he
fun helping out his team as an assistant coach. The
explains. “Whenever we do anything
team is working real hard. They all contributed to
that shutout”.
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