Fort William Canadiens U18 'AA'

The Fort William Canadiens dropped their final round robin games of the Robin’s Minor Hockey Classic, falling 5-3 to the Marathon Northern Selects.

The Selects scored five times by the end of the first period, with three of those goals in the final 3:30 of play.

Midway through the second period the Canadiens’ Neelix Otway scored a powerplay marker, converting a Deacon Panacheese pass, to get his team on the board. It was Otway’s ninth of the season.

Joseph Joubert scored a powerplay goal, his 18th of the year, less than four minutes later to close the gap to 5-2.

Tallon Thornsteinson converted an Aiden Gregor pass to shrink the gap to two goals but a scoreless third period would leave the score at 5-3. The goal was Thornsteinson’s eighth of the campaign.

Notes: The Canadiens were 2-6 on the powerplay while were able to kill all three shorthanded opportunities; Luca Jedruch, Owen Renn, Andrew Bragnalo and Nathan Caputo were out of the Canadiens lineup; Ali Hassan Alam played his fourth game of the weekend for the Canadiens; The semifinals include three of the four teams that the Canadiens played in the round robin, with Fort William Hurricanes meeting the Marathon Northern Selects while the West End Bruins and Interlake Lightning squaring off in the other semifinal.

Boxscore:

Game #36: Robin’s Minor Hockey Classic
Saturday January 20/24 – Fort William First Nations Arena

Fort William Canadiens 3 Marathon Northern Selects 5

Score By Period
Team  1  2  3  T 
Fort William Canadiens 0 3 0 3
Marathon Northern Selects 5 0 0 5

Summary
First Period
1. MNS Harmer (Taylor, G.Tucker) 4:35
2. MNS Albert (Figliomeni, Desormeaux) 6:26
3. MNS Skworchinski (Albert, Leduc) 11:30
4. MNS Skworchinski (Bryson, McWatch) 11:43
5. MNS Harmer (N.Tucker, Taylor) 13:48
Penalties: MNS Albert (Roughing) 9:13

Second Period
6. FWC Otway 9th (Panacheese, Lemmetty) 6:46 PP
7. FWC Joubert 18th (Otway, Bodnar) 10:17 PP
8. FWC Thornsteinson 8th (Reid, Lemmetty) 12:21
Penalties: MNS Michano-Driver (Misconduct) 2:53; MNS Desormeaux (Head contact), MNS Bench (Bench minor) 4:54; MNS Abraham (Slashing) 5:55; MNS Taylor (Crosschecking), MNS Abraham (Slashing) 9:13

Third Period
No scoring
Penalties: FWC Arthur (Tripping) 1:05; FWC Gregor (Tripping) 2:39; MNS Abraham (Roughing, Head contact), MNS G. Tucker (Roughing), FWC Otway (Roughing, Crosschecking), FWC Thornsteinson (Head contact) 11:46

Goaltenders  MP GA  Dec 
FWC Nicolas Pavletic 15 5 Loss
FWC Connor Menard 30 0 -
MNS Patrick Griffin 45 3 Win

Power plays: (goals-chances) Canadiens 2-6; Selects 0-3