View From The Ice
by Brett Holmes
December 17/1996
One tournament, 4 games, 4 wins, 35 goals, 38 penalties, 200+ shots on net, 2 hat tricks and we get a trophy that says champions on the front.
The Provost PeeWee second year hockey club went to Kindersley to compete in a tournament which went on last Friday, Saturday and Sunday. (Our games were played on Saturday and Sunday). We were the only Alberta team to go to this tournament and we didn’t want to make our province look bad.
This was our second tournament this season and we had trouble in a few games but came back to beat them by quite a fair margin. The closest game that we played was a 8-5 win over Eatonia on Saturday. And earlier that day we blew Macklin away 12-3 in our first game. Holmes missed half the game because he got "The Big Boot". Other than that it was a slow but hard hitting game. McMann played another good game getting a hat trick and four assists.
Provost scoreboard:
First Period- Ganser (Klein); Stempfle (Angeltvedt); Stempfle (Watchal), Klein (McMann, Adams).
Second period- Holmes (Stempfle); McMann (Adams); Holmes (McMann); Ganser (McMann); Adams (unassisted); Klein (McMann, Ganser).
Third period- McMann (Watchal); McMann (Watchal).
Eatonia, I thought, was the toughest game of them all. We were losing 2-0 after the first period and we thought we would have an extremely hard time beating these guys. But Doug Stuckky (manager) told us to control that number five and we have the game in the bag. Number five was their main player; without him, we would win the game easily. But we took Doug’s advice and didn’t let number five start out of his end and pick up speed. After we did that we didn’t have that hard a time controlling the game. We won 8-5. Holmes also scored a late goal with 27 seconds left in the first.
Every one of our goals were for tip-ins except for about three of the eight. Holmes got a hat-tip, he got all three goals from tip-ins. Stempfle had four assists to help us, and Landmark with two goals.
Provost scoreboard:
First period- No scoring.
Second period- Landmark (Stempfle); Holmes (Stempfle, Watchal); Ringrose (Holmes, Stempfle); Holmes (Ringrose).
Third period- Klein (McMann); McMann (Klein, Stempfle); Landmark (unassisted); Holmes (Landmark).
Our next game was against the Kindersley Bandits, one of the two Kindersley teams. They needed to beat us by nine goals to make it to the "A" final.
We were having trouble with them for the first five to ten minutes but then we broke loose.
We scored an early goal fourteen seconds into the second period to take a 3-1 lead. Then a minute and a half later we scored again. They scored at the ten minute mark to make it interesting, then we scored two goals with less than seven minutes left in the period. We went on to win this game 9-2.
Provost scoreboard:
First period- Ganser (McMann); Watchal (unassisted).
Second period- McMann (Ganser); Angeltvedt (McMann); Ganser (Watchal); Stempfle (Ringrose).
Third period- Stempfle (Holmes); Holmes (Ringrose, Stempfle); Holmes (Stempfle).
Provost ended up playing another Kindersley team in the "A" final, the Kindersley Komets who had won all three of their games.
At the beginning we had decided to win this for Alberta.
A few minutes into the game Adams got a penalty. On the powerplay, the Komets tried to shoot it from the point but Holmes kicked the puck with his foot and went in on a breakaway. He shot it from the top of the circle and into the corner of the net to give Provost a one to nothing lead early in the game.
The shorthanded goal stood up till the end of the first period.
The Komets then came back to score two goals midway through the second to go ahead 2-1. Provost then got three unanswered goals in the second half of the second. We then went into the dressing room with a 4-2 lead.
In the third Kindersley came out flying for about two minutes then died down without accomplishing anything. We turned the pressure on to them, scoring a goal five minutes in the third, and then again with five minutes until the end of the tournament when Ringrose caught a rebound of the post and secured the victory at 6-2.
We noticed defencemen Rehman, Landmark, Adams and Watchal making the bodies fly with some excellent body checks as usual. Adams in particular had a huge hipcheck near the end of the game.
We sure were happy that we drove to Kindersley to go to the tournament, that we won by quite a ways, and the games that boosted our standings to 13-0-2.
Provost scoreboard:
First period- Holmes (unassisted).
Second period- Klein (Ganser); McMann (Watchal); Klein (unassisted).
Third period- Watchal (unassisted); Ringrose (Holmes, Stempfle).
Our next scheduled game is out of town this Friday at Sedgewick.
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