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Volume 18 Number 17
Bentley Generals fans proud of win, sad to say goodbye
Bentley Generals cheer after teammate Carter Rigby scored the winning goal to bring the team to a 4-3 victory in an overtime win against host team South East Prairie Thunder. The win gives Bentley its third Canadian senior men’s hockey title in the last eight years. Photo courtesy of Rusty Barton/HHOF
BY TREENA MIELKE Once again, The Bentley Generals have emerged the victorious winners of the Allan Cup. This year the championship game ended in an overtime thriller that kept fans on the edge of their seats. Derek Dickau was one of
those fans. Dickau, a longtime Generals fan, pulled the team’s equipment trailer to Steinback, Manitoba, so he could watch the finals against South East Prairie Thunder first hand. “It was thrilling,” he said. “A little town like Bentley winning. That’s pretty awesome.”
The crowning moment for the Generals came with just over four minutes left in the first overtime period when Carter Rigby’s shot on goal made its target. Joan Dickau who watched most of the game on television at home marveled not only at the win, but at the similarities from an overtime championship
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to Lacombe, but they do understand the reality of the economics of the situation. “I totally understand and I support the decision, but I don’t like it,” said Joan Dickau, who has taken tickets at the door for the Generals games and is aware of the dwindling crowds.
game seven years ago. “Same team, same town, same score,” she said. Dickau said he personally knows a lot of the players and is very proud of the team. “They are a talented bunch of boys,” he said. Both Derek and his wife Joan are sad that the Generals are moving
The win gives Bentley its third Canadian senior men’s hockey title in the last eight years. The Allan Cup, Canada’s National Senior Championship, is one of the oldest club-team hockey competitions in North America. The first championship game for the Allan Cup was held in 1908.
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