Photo by Marcel Vander Wier
TURNS ON THE JETS – BMO’s Gavin McKenna wheels the puck through the neutral zone during the WMHA peewee final Sunday at the Canada Games Centre. The atom development team won the game by a score of 6-3.
Photo by Marcel Vander Wier
TURNS ON THE JETS – BMO’s Gavin McKenna wheels the puck through the neutral zone during the WMHA peewee final Sunday at the Canada Games Centre. The atom development team won the game by a score of 6-3.
Six different players chipped in goals to lead BMO past P&M Recycling 6-3 in the peewee house league championship game Sunday.
Six different players chipped in goals to lead BMO past P&M Recycling 6-3 in the peewee house league championship game Sunday.
BMO – also known as the atom development team – capped a solid year by winning the Whitehorse Minor Hockey Association (WMHA) title in front of a revved-up crowd at the Canada Games Centre.
Each of Johnny Timmons, Gavin McKenna, Nash Holmes, Luke Cozens, Seth Sheardown-Waugh and Taylor Bierlmeier scored for pint-sized BMO in the victory.
Much of the team played together last year as the Whitehorse Novice Junior Huskies. The team plays up a division in the same fashion as the now-defunct Atom Mustangs.
Navarro Davies opened the scoring for P&M, tipping a shot home on an early power play, before Timmons got BMO on the board on a five-on-three advantage.
The electrifying McKenna gave BMO the 2-1 lead early in the second, tapping a loose puck past prone goaltender Max Wolsynuk.
Huss Briethaupt evened the score late in the frame, however, sending a wrist shot past Fynn Ritchie’s glove hand to finish off a breakaway.
In the third, BMO scored four straight goals to put the game away.
A late tally from P&M’s Jayden Hardy was the only answer the older squad could muster.
“It’s a really special group of kids,” coach Derek Johnstone said of his BMO squad.
“It’s amazing how they kept on getting better and better, and practising harder and harder.
“And to finish like this? It’s really rewarding to see them win this. The other teams got better as well and they played us tough, but it’s good to see that they got rewarded.”
Earlier in the round-robin playoffs, BMO edged P&M 4-3, the recycling depot’s only other loss last week.
BMO went unbeaten.
“Like I said before, it’s an exceptional group,” said Johnstone. “There’s some talented kids and some kids who work really hard. They all came together this year and bought in that it’s a team.”
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Hockey fan on Apr 19, 2016 at 11:22 pm
It's amazing that "electrifying Mckenna" has only just recently turned 8! Good job!