2008 RBC Cup

Camrose Kodiaks  6 -  Oakville Blades  1
 

KODIAKS’ THREE SHORTHANDED GOALS HELP SEND BLADES PACKING

Just how good are the Camrose Kodiaks?

They rested their starting goaltender, their top defenseman and the 2008 RBC Canadian Junior A Player of the Year, and still had little trouble with a motivated Oakville Blades team on Thursday night.

Player of the game Jesse Todd scored shorthanded twice in 6:02 in the second period and set up Mike Connolly for another goal while a man down in the middle frame as the Kodiaks completed a perfect round robin at the 2008 RBC Cup with a 6-1 win over the Blades.

The win means that the Kodiaks will face the Pictou County Weeks Crushers in Saturday’s first semi-final (2:00 p.m. ET), while the Blades, the OPJHL and Dudley Hewitt Cup champions, will watch the weekend’s playoff action from the sidelines.

Having already wrapped up first place thanks to their 2-1 win over the Cornwall Colts on Wednesday, the Kodiaks rested goaltender Allen York, blueliner Karl Stollery and national player of the year Joe Colborne in order to get all of their players a taste of game action.

The missing firepower didn’t seem to hurt the Pacific Region champions.

Despite needing a win to advance, the Blades found themselves on the defensive side of the puck for much of the first period, and were in a 1-0 hole after Andre Herman’s wraparound banked off the skate of goaltender Oliver Wren and in.

The Blades finally showed signs of life early in the second period, as Nick McParland – Oakville player of the game – cut into the middle of the ice and rifled a shot over the glove of Camrose netminder Mathieu Larochelle to draw the Central Region champions even at 1-1.

They had a chance to grab their first lead of the game when the Kodiaks were whistled for four consecutive minor penalties midway through the period, but instead found themselves down by three goals after a remarkable shorthanded flurry by Camrose.

Todd got it started with a stirring solo effort, snapping the puck past Wren from his knees, and scored his second just over six minutes later, taking a gorgeous cross-ice feed from Connolly and beating a sprawling Wren.

Todd returned the favour 1:44 later, setting up Connolly for another shorthanded marker, which spelled the end of the night, and the tournament, for Wren.

Craig Rylett was welcomed into the Oakville net by David Jacobsen, who beat the 16-year-old with the first shot he faced, making it 5-1 heading into the second intermission.

Herman rounded out the scoring in the third period with a rocket over the glove of Rylett.

The National Junior A Championship takes a day off on Friday for its awards banquet before Saturday’s semi-finals.

In addition to the Kodiaks/Crushers match-up, the late game will see the host Cornwall Colts face the Humboldt Broncos at 7:00 p.m. ET, where the Colts will look to avenge a 7-0 loss to the Broncos in the tournament opener last Saturday.

 

Game Information
Game Number 10  Round Preliminary
Arena Ed Lumley Arena City, Country Cornwall, Ont., Canada
Month / Day / Year 05/08/2008 Time (local) 07:00 PM ET
Attendance 1483 Game Status Final

Box Score   1     2     3   Total
Camrose Kodiaks (PAC) 1 4 1 6
Oakville Blades (CEN) 0 1 0 1
Goals/Penalties
First Period
Goals:
   13:48 PAC 10 Andre Herman (15 Kyle Miller, 26 Shawn Ostrow)

Penalties:
   02:52 CEN 19 Kellan Lain (Holding)
   09:13 CEN Team (Too Many Men)
   14:29 CEN 89 Kyle Badham (Slashing)

Second Period
Goals:
   03:33 CEN 10 Nick McParland (74 Julian Cimadamore)
   07:52 PAC 16 Jesse Todd SH
   13:58 PAC 16 Jesse Todd (20 Mike Connolly, 25 Colin Dueck) SH
   15:42 PAC 20 Mike Connolly (16 Jesse Todd) SH
   16:04 PAC 7 David Jacobsen (15 Kyle Miller, 6 Dean Petiot)

Penalties:
   01:31 CEN 19 Kellan Lain (Elbowing)
   07:10 PAC 14 Nick Chartier (AP) (Interference)
   09:49 PAC 16 Jesse Todd (Roughing)
   12:29 PAC 8 Jordan Heck (High Sticking)
   14:38 PAC 2 Andrew MacWilliam (Interference)
   15:42 CEN 15 Dustin Alcock (High Sticking)
   15:42 CEN 15 Dustin Alcock (High Sticking)
   17:03 PAC 15 Kyle Miller (Slashing)

Third Period
Goals:
   05:52 PAC 10 Andre Herman (26 Shawn Ostrow)

Penalties:
   01:50 CEN 27 Jeremy Welsh (High Sticking)
   07:32 PAC 24 Dylan Olsen (Tripping)
   07:50 CEN 8 Dan Hunt (Holding)
   08:39 CEN 20 Jeff Grenier (Slashing)
   13:02 PAC 15 Kyle Miller (High Sticking)
   17:42 PAC 22 Jeremy Beirnes (Roughing)
   17:42 CEN 8 Dan Hunt (Roughing)
   18:39 CEN 20 Jeff Grenier (Tripping)


Goaltenders
Camrose Kodiaks
1 Mathieu Larochelle On 1/00:00   Off 3/20:00
Oakville Blades
29 Oliver Wren On 1/00:00   Off 2/15:42
30 Craig Rylett On 2/15:43   Off 3/20:00

Shots on Goal   1     2     3   Total
Camrose Kodiaks 8 10 7 25
Oakville Blades 8 11 7 26

Player of Game
Camrose Kodiaks 16 Jesse Todd
Oakville Blades 10 Nick McParland
Officials
Referee Chad White
Lines People Dave Lauer, Adam O'Keeffe
Goal Judge Troy Murray, Chris Harrington

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