Brampton Canadettes Tournament, News, U13 Girls Tier 1, U13, 2022-2023 (Lucan Minor Hockey)

This Team is part of the 2022-2023 season, which is not set as the current season.
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Apr 21, 2023 | Dennis Pearn | 361 views
Brampton Canadettes Tournament
Our Lucan U13B Girls Team took part in the Brampton Canadettes tournament on April 7-9. This Tournament is the longest running Girls Tournament in Canada, this being the 54th annual with over 330 Teams from across Ontario, Quebec and the United States taking part. 

Lucan was down a few Players to start the Tournament, so with a shortened & juggled lineup we kicked things off Friday morning with a game versus the Huron Heat. The Irish came out firing, taking the early lead and kept the pedal to the metal! Goals came from both the newly created lines from all over the offensive zone, and carried us to a convincing 6-1 win. Next up was Georgina Friday afternoon. The Golden Hawks proved to be solid defensively & tough opponents as the game remained scoreless midway into the 3rd period. But as our Lucan Girls usually do, they get better as the game goes on and eventually break through & pull away. This game was a perfect example as we scored 3 in the final few minutes & Ava was perfect in net to skate away with the win. 

Saturday's action had us face off against the Mississauga Hurricanes, with a birth in the quarter final on the line. We got a big boost to the line up as one of Big Shooters returned from the infirmary to reinforce the Troops!  Lucan started quickly, swarming the Hurricanes, and were eventually rewarded with the ice breaking goal. Mississauga was quick to tie it up however, but Lucan was even quicker to regain the lead! Lucan then went into lockdown mode and was determined not to let another lead slip away, and skated away with the narrow 2-1 win. This gave us a record of 3 wins & 0 loses after the round robin, and a date with Nepean WildCats in the quarter final Sunday morning.

The game was early and the rink was cold, perfect conditions for our Girls! The game was a tight battle from the opening puck drop, with each Team having their chances. Some great hustle from our feistiest forward gave us a powerplay early in the second, and the PP unit did the rest to stake us to the early lead. A terrific shot post-and-in doubled our lead soon after. Nepean got one back, then Lucan ran into some penalty trouble and had to kill an extended 5on3 advantage, but our gritty penalty killers did a fantastic job to hold off the attackers, kill the penalties, then tack on a couple insurance goals, a really gutsy effort! This win sent us off to the semi finals versus the Hearst WildCats.

Lucan received another huge boost as one of our missing Defensegirls made her triumphant return to the lineup for this game! The stands were packed & buzzing with excitement with a trip to the Finals on the line! Lucan started out fantastic, carrying the play battling hard against a big, strong & fast Hearst Team. An amazing individual rush and even better bullet top-corner short-side shot on the big Hearst Goalie gave Lucan the early lead! However a phantom call put Lucan on the penalty kill and the IceCats converted to tie it, then take the lead shortly after. Our Girls dug in and battled hard for equalizer, carrying the play and dominating the zone time, however were unable to beat the Hearst defences and big Goalie. Lucan poured on the pressure throughout the 2nd and all 3rd period, but try as they might we could not find the magic one more time to tie it up. Hearst added a bar-down goal & empty netter late to come away with the win. A great effort and very fun weekend overall! Congratulations to Mooretown who went on to win the Tournament, another very strong Team from the SouthWest Division!

This wrapped up our very successful and enjoyable season! It was a heck of a ride and tones of fun! Thank you to all the Players, Parents, Families and LMH for supporting us throughout the year!
We can't wait to get started at next season! 
Have a great summer, and see you at the Rink!! 

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