Seafair Minor Hockey’s C2 Midget team closed out an outstanding season in style by being crowned Pacific Coast Amateur Hockey Association President’s League Blue Group playoff champions.
Seafair concluded their post-season run with a 5-1 win over arch-rival Arbutus Club C1 in Sunday’s championship game. The result came just 48 hours after the teams met to close out round-robin play — a game Arbutus won 7-5. Still, the locals’ 4-3-2 record was good enough for second place and another shot at the Vancouver squad.
Brandon Woo opened the scoring midway into the first period with a brilliant slap shot from the blueline. His effort seemed to inspire his teammates as Seafair played terrific hockey the rest of the way.
“They started out pretty tight,” said assistant coach Chris Wong, “That first goal took the lid off and it was like they knew they could do it at that point.”
Goals followed by Mason Wong, Tyler Coulson and Kyle Wong. Cameron Knight scored the final goal late in the third period.
Goalie Isaac Fung played a brilliant game, allowing just the one goal in the final period. Defencemen Patrick Phi, Adam Barish, Quintin Long, Parker Shaw, Parm Shidhu, Sam Moor-Smith and Riley Wong battled hard to keep Arbutus at bay.
Forwards Chase Eichen, Mitchell Schroter, Giancarlo Sellitti, Brian Steeves and Emma Wallace were instrumental in all plays as a good portion of the game was played in the Arbutus zone.
The playoff championship is in addition to Seafair also earning regular season honours and taking first place at the Seattle Arctic Blast tournament.”
Head coach Dan Wallace and assistants Paul Knight and Chris Wong did a great job guiding the team and keeping the adrenaline up.
Manager Rhonda Barish also worked hard all season keeping everyone organized.
