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movement and defensive plays from Mason Espinola (who even fired off a couple of beauty shots) and beautiful goals and assists from Levi Blake, Austin Mezza, Davis Starks and JaceAllgood.

The team’s dominance was fuelled by likely the loudest fan support seen in U9 hockey and the support only helped to encourage the team to play hard and support one another. Every goal was celebrated on ice in a show of camaraderie that made parents feel truly proud “What separated our kids from the competition was their commitment to the back check and to play with a team first mentality,” said coach Levi Blake.

“They were determined and ferocious as a team to all get back and limit the opportunity for their opponents to even get a shot attempt, let alone a quality scoring chance,” he added. “The coaches couldn’t be prouder of this group of players to watch them play as a unit and absolutely dominated their competition.”

Paris also took home the top honours in the tournament’s shootout competition, capping off a perfect weekend both on and off the ice

The team has a couple regular season games remaining before heading to one final tournament of the season hosted by New Hamburg in earlyApril. Team