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		<title>From the Times: Big D first player signed</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big D first player signed Don’t expect to see Josh Wiley lighting up the scoreboard this season for the Cambridge Winter Hawks. Then again, the team didn’t sign the 19-year-old defenceman to score goals. His job is to prevent them. The six-foot, three-inch, 187-pound Oakville native, who was traded last season to the Toronto Lakeshore Patriots after 13 games with the Hamilton Red Wings – both of the Ontario Junior Hockey League – will bring some size and experience to the blue-line. Wiley didn’t score in 46 regular season games last season and had one in 18 playoff games. He scored five for Hamilton in 2010-11. “He’s a big, stay-at-home type of guy,” said Winter Hawks general manager Ken Jeysman. “He has good size and good feet, he’s a good skater. He comes from a good skating team. It improves our speed back there.” Jennings said he’s known about Wiley since he played for the Mississauga Reps in the national midget championship, the Telus Cup, and jumped at the chance to sign him when he got word that the rearguard was going to attend the University of Guelph in September. Though the Winter Hawks rarely sign players prior to their annual rookie camp, Jeysman said he wasn’t going to sit on his hands and wait, even if they only get the 1992 birth for one season. “From my understanding, pretty much all the Junior B teams from our side called Josh,” he said. “When you get someone of that quality coming out our way, it’s like a frenzy. You have to get your words in there quick just to get your voice heard. “(The players) don’t want to have to worry about it either. He’s going to be in our top three, so when you can grab something like that in a defenceman, you don’t let that one go by.” Since there were only three graduates from last year’s squad – Darcy Meyer, Brendan Gorecki and Ryan Clarke – and none were defenceman, Wiley’s signing will mean stiff competition for blue-line spots, should everyone return. “(The defence) did a great job, but we have to get better if we want to compete with the top guys.” Jeysman wouldn’t say if any more players will be signed at this coming weekend’s rookie camp at the Hespeler Arena, but he did admit that there were some players attending camp who impressed him at a recent prospects tournament in Toronto. “Every team has a wish list, myself included. You put down the names of who you would like to have and as you talk to them and either get them or not get them, you scratch them off and move on. You try and get the best you can.” He added that some returning players would also be signing on the weekend. Getting everyone back who is eligible to return will be key for the team. After all, this is a squad that was one win away from the Cherrey Cup final. “We said it was going to be a three-year plan when we first came in and this is year three. We should have the tools to make a good run,” Jeysman said. The rookie camp is free to the public and runs Saturday and Sunday. The first games are on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. Hawks nest: Winter Hawks leading scorer Josh Timpano announced on his Twitter account that he has signed with the Ontario Junior Hockey League’s Trenton Golden Hawks for next season…The Winter Hawks have signed an affiliation agreement with the Junior C Ayr Centennials for next season. &#160; Courtesy of Bill Doucet at the Cambridge Times. Read the original article here!]]></description>
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		<title>Coming talent at Rookie Camp</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s rookie camp shows promise for the Winter Hawks. With a crop of young talent flocking in from all over Ontario, be sure to check out the 2-day split of games, this Saturday May 19th and Sunday May 20th. Just to give you a taste of what to expect, here are some numbers on incoming prospects. Brandon Plourde DOB- 1994-12-06 Position- Defence Previous team: Kapuskasing  Flyers of the GNML Last seasons stats: 31 games played, 14 goals, 29 assists, 85 minutes in penalties. &#160; Alex Bottigoni DOB- 1994-06-20 Position- Right Wing Previous team(s): Nickel City Sons of the GNML, BAC Secondary School and North Bay Trappers (playoffs only) of the NOJHL Last season stats with Nickel City: 34 games played, 22 goals, 26 assists, 10 minutes in penalties &#160; Quinn Diamond, Zach Core, Hudson Michaelis and Jack Van Boeckel were all featured in the Cambridge Times for being drafted in the OHL this past season. Check out the article on them here! &#160; Brandon Bazinet DOB- 1995-05-06 Position- Left Wing Previous team:  Nickel City Sons of the GNML Last season&#8217;s stats: 33 games played, 11 goals, 29 assists, 59 minutes in penalties &#160; Jarrett Parker Position- Right Wing Previous team: Kitchener Jr. Rangers Last season&#8217;s stats: 62 games played, 27 goals, 17 assists and 65 penalties in minutes &#160; Malcolm Bilton DOB- 1995-07-11 Position- Left Wing Previous team: Nickel City Sons of the GNML Last season&#8217;s stats: 34 games played, 15 goals, 29 assists and 58 minutes in penalties &#160; Jimmy Roy DOB- 1994- 04-23 Position- Forward Previous team: Nickel City Sons of the GNML Last season&#8217;s stats: 34 games played, 19 goals, 25 assists, and 64 minutes in penalties &#160; Dustin Cordeiro DOB-1995-04-04 Position- Centre Previous team: Toronto Moose A of the GMHL Last season&#8217;s stats: 41 games played, 25 goals, 27 assists and 114 minutes in penalties &#160; Karndeep Natt DOB- 1993-03-29 Position- Forward Previous teams: 2011-2012 with Brampton Capitals (3 games) of the OJHL and 2010-2011 with Bampton Battalion Midget AAA of the SCTA 2010-2011 stats: 37 games played, 10 goals, 17 assists and 32 minutes in penalties &#160; Kyle Baril DOB- 1994-05-10 Position- Forward Previous teams: Elmira Sugar Kings, Widdfield Wildcats Last season&#8217;s stats: Elmira- 12 games played, 1 assist, 2 minutes in penalties. Widdfield- 16 games played, 14 goals, 16 assists and 66 penalties in minutes &#160; Matthew Fischer DOB- 1994-08-29 Position- Forward Previous team: Penetang Kings of the GMOJHL Last season&#8217;s stats: 36 games played, 10 goals, 6 assists, and 16 minutes in penalties. &#160; Brad Yowart DOB- 1996-05-05 Position- Defence Previous team: Kitchener Jr. Rangers Last season&#8217;s stats: 64 games played, 19 assists, 6 minutes in penalties &#160; Luke Gazzola DOB-1996-03-10 Position- Centre Previous team: Kitchener Jr. Rangers Last season&#8217;s stats: 65 games played, 28 goals, 21 assists, 66 penalties in minutes &#160; Connor Bodnar DOB- 1996-04-02 Position- Left Wing Previous team: Kitchener Jr. Rangers Last season&#8217;s stats: 64 games played, 9 goals, 25 assists and 24 penalties in minutes]]></description>
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		<title>GOJHL coming to the GTA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems there has been some chiseling going on in the Midwest conference. While Brantford is at play in the Sutherland Cup, the Owen Sound Greys appear to be packing their bags and heading to the GTA. Reported by the O.S. Times, the Greys&#8217; major sponsor David Arsenault has applied to the league to move the team to Brampton for the 2012-2013 season. While Owen Sound&#8217;s community and former GM Steve McIver has appealed to the league to hold off on approving the move, Brent Ladds and the OHA approved the move into the GTA. Check out the rest of the story below. OHA approves Greys&#8217; move to Brampton Team leaving Owen Sound By Bill Walker The Owen Sound Greys are dead a year before their 100th birthday as the Ontario Hockey Association approved the junior-B club’s move to Brampton on Wednesday. The OHA board of directors approved the Greys’ move to Brampton despite a formal request this morning by former general manager Steve McIver to have a decision delayed until its annual general meeting on June 16. “It was too late for (major sponsor David Arsenault) to relocate and for ice and the league needed to know for the purposes of scheduling so the matter was dealt with,” OHA president Brent Ladds said following Wednesday’s meeting. “(The Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League) was pressuring us to get it done by mid May because they do an interlocking schedule with all three conferences. They were looking for information last week but we said there would be no decision made until (Wednesday).” McIver had asked that the decision be delayed until June to allow local interests to firm up local support. “(It) would go a long way to providing a small window of relief for the community to shore up support and possibly keep the team in Owen Sound,” McIver said in an e-mail. “(The community) deserves the opportunity to ensure all is being done to save the team and continue a solid and storied history of providing local players with the opportunity to play at a high level of hockey.” But Ladds said that four more weeks wasn’t enough time for someone to put together a solid economic plan for the team. “I recognize the good intentions there but at the end of the day it takes a firm plan and more visible support by the community,” said Ladds. “If it just comes down to an individual simply putting in some money, we’ve seen that model doesn’t work because they’ll get tired of that after a year or two and we’ll be back in the same situation. It has to be a total community effort and you can’t put that together in four or five weeks.” The Greys have been in financial troubles for several years, taking 2009-10 off to refinance. &#160; Arsenault came onboard in 2010 as the major sponsor but the club continued to hemorrhage money. He approached the OHA and the GOJHL earlier this year with an eye to moving the team to Brampton. The OHA’s decision gives it a beachhead in the GTA and allows for junior-B hockey to expand into the area this year. “I feel bad for the people in the Owen Sound area who had an interest in it but it’s an economic situation,” said Ladds, who did not remember if the vote to approve the move was unanimous. “This is not a last year situation. This has been going on for six years. Long term there’s always an opportunity for someone to file an application for a new entry. Looking at the 2013-2014 season, maybe it will take that long to put together an economic model that works there.”]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian Cathedrals- Galt Arena by Sportsnet</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sportsnet aired  a 5 part series, where one part was dedicated to Galt Arena. Check out their article and video about why Galt Arena is so important to this community. &#160; http://www.sportsnet.ca/magazine/canadian_cathedrals_partiii_galt_arena/]]></description>
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		<title>From the Times: Cambridge heading to OJHL in 2013-14</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cambridge heading to OJHL in 2013-14 Winter Hawks leaving Junior B, following Tomorrows Game The Cambridge Winter Hawks are bidding adieu to Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League. In the coming weeks, the Winter Hawks will be filing a letter of intent to join the Ontario Junior Hockey League for the 2013-14 season. It’s a coming home of sorts for the Winter Hawks, as the team began as a tier II squad in the nine-team Ontario Junior Hockey League in 1982-83 before moving to the Midwestern Junior B Hockey League. The move falls in line with the Ontario Hockey Association’s Tomorrow’s Game plan. While the plan – to split the junior hockey into a Premier League (junior A), Development 1 (junior B) and Development 2 (junior C and D) – has been slow to develop, teams have already been told to get their standard operating procedures (SOP) in place for the movement. “Since Paul and I put our business plan in place, the goal was to move to that level,” said Winter Hawks president Joe Machado. “We believe that we have already implemented the SOPs as far as our hockey club is concerned and have received very positive feedback from the OHA in terms of what we’ve been able to accomplish. “We feel that the Cambridge community is ready to watch hockey at a higher level. Our development model and our emphasis of creating opportunities for hockey players to obtain NCAA scholarships will be enhanced by playing at the Junior A level. It will be able to meet our goals in a much better way.” Whether Tomorrow’s game will be in place by then – it was supposed to be fully implemented this past season – is a moot point, as the Winter Hawks plan on moving to set themselves up to play in the Premier League. Once a letter of intent is received by the OHA, it has to be brought to the board of directors. Machado doesn’t envision any problems in moving to the junior A loop. “We’ve had several meetings with the OHA over the last couple of years in terms of what we’re doing as far as our infrastructure is concerned, both in business operations and hockey operations,” he said. “We’ve implemented the SOPs, our fan base has increased over the past couple of years and we’ve also been able to attract bigger players in terms of corporate partners. “We’re ready and we can continue to grow, and compete at that level as a stable hockey organization.” In past years, the junior A league has thought to have been watered down with too many teams, giving marginal players a chance to play junior hockey. Now, teams are starting to decommission themselves or merge with other franchises to meet operating standards. At the end of this season, the Brampton Capitals, Huntsville Otters and Vaughan Vipers ceased operations. The league has trimmed 13 teams since 2009-10. “It will be a stronger league,” Machado said. “Obviously, only the top players will be able to play there. So the calibre of hockey on the ice is going to be more exciting and competitive. I think that will lend itself to more opportunities for players seeking to move on academically with scholarships, which has been a major part of our emphasis over the last three years.” One of the benefits of moving to the OJHL is there is no import rule, so the team doesn’t have to limit the number of out-of-town players it can carry. The Winter Hawks have found themselves at their limit with imports the past couple of years which has made recruiting challenging at times. Despite the ability to look for the best players available, Machado said there will still be strong local content on the ice. “We believe that we have a great relationship with Cambridge minor hockey. A lot of good, talented young players graduated from Cambridge minor hockey and we’re proud to have quite a number of them on our team this year. “We want to continue to strengthen that relationship with minor hockey so that we can continue to draw form there and have local players on our club.” Moving to the OJHL would also stop that league from poaching the team’s best players, with only financial compensation necessary in exchange. Machado said that looking beyond the move, he is hoping to bring a Junior D or Junior C team to town to play in the Junior B or Development 1 league – depending on when Tomorrow’s Game goes through – as a feeder team to the Winter Hawks. How does the Cambridge Shamrocks sound? “We’re currently exploring ideas about what that would look like,” he said. “One of our options is…playing out of either Hespeler or the newly renovated Ice Park. At this point, we’re just exploring those options. We find that it would be a great opportunity for the hockey club to develop local players and to continue to develop players to play at the junior A level. “Having a vertically integrated development model would be a great asset for the hockey club. We are exploring those options and hopefully we can make them materialize.” Getting into the Hespeler Arena would mean jockeying with minor hockey to get ice time. Though the groups weren’t willing to accommodate senior hockey, they may agree to a junior B squad that would give local players an opportunity. The Ice Park idea is what Machado calls in the “very infancy stages”. He wanted to talk to the new owners about either adding stands to the current renovations or building a third rink onto the property with stands. That would take financial commitment on the Winter Hawks part, but Machado said he is trying to get a meeting with the owners to test waters with the idea. “What that’s going to look like down the road is, at this point, would be speculation,” he said “There’s no certainty as far as (a junior B team) concerned, but we are certainly putting a lot of emphasis on it because we think it’s a part of our development strategy.” &#160; Courtesy of Bill Doucet at the Cambridge Times.  See the original article here. &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>From the Times: Hawks can call this season successful</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hawks can call this season successful Doucet&#8217;s Dugout Let’s go back in time to September. Gas prices were cheaper, we thought we’d get a winter with snow and I had a column about the Cambridge Winter Hawks start to the season. At the time, I said that even though it was one game into the season, there was a new feeling around the team. There was a fire and a collectiveness that hadn’t been seen since the championship years. New acquisition Michael Christou called the team a family and I even went on a limb to say that there seemed to be a new attitude around the team and they may bring some excitement to the Galt Arena Gardens. But who knew that it would be much more than that. Told you so. No, the Winter Hawks won’t be in the Cherrey Cup finals this week, as the Brantford Golden Eagles and Stratford Cullitons – both teams loaded with 20 year olds I might add – will battle it out. But this team has been nothing but a success, getting out of the first round of the playoffs for the first time in four years and narrowly missing a trip to the Cherrey Cup, again for the first time in four years. General manager Ken Jeysman assembled a team that, while not huge in statue, had a giant heart. No one gave them a chance in the semifinals. I don’t offer predictions, but if anybody asked me I figured it would go five games in Brantford’s favour. No one believed in them, except themselves. After a season full of injuries, concussions (too numerous to count), broken wrists, ribs and banged up knees, the team finished in fourth overall with 30 wins and, at one time, had a chance to catch the third and second place teams before they pulled away from everybody. In the playoffs, the Winter Hawks took out Guelph 4-2 and then faced their biggest challenge of the season, Brantford. What can you say about the Golden Eagles – nine 20 year olds that will graduate from the team and players with major junior experience all who come to the team just for the love of the game (cough, cough). Not sure if any of those players are living over the IGA this season or are on the Brian Rizzetto card system, but nonetheless, they had a veteran team. The Winter Hawks on the other hand have seven, 17 year olds and two 16 year olds who will only be better next year. Sure, Jeysman could have blown up the team and went older as they moved up the standings, but instead decided to tinker, adding one 20 year old in Darcy Meyer. Meyer, who was a gritty player, spent the last game of the series with his arm in a sling. Brock Campbell, another pickup and 17, was out with a concussion. And just to note, Michael Christou missed playoff time with a concussion and Josh Timpano was sporting stitches in his foot. The other 17 year olds, Cody Gratton, Andrew Coupland, Lawrence Pagnan, Anthony Guido and Jordan Pettitt were a huge part of the team’s success in the playoffs. Goalie Lucas Machalski, also 17, who gave way to veteran Brendan Gorecki, had 20 wins during the regular season. How’s that for a future. And really, that’s what the team was built for. The Winter Hawks don’t have the uh, resources shall we say, as some other teams to lure players from major junior hockey. Looking at this team, it really was put together for a run next year, with some older players and strong younger ones with a year under their belt. It’s not a knock on this year’s team, but it was one of those years where management doesn’t sell the farm – and good for them – and says, let’s see what these guys have in them. This year’s team though, made a statement. Which bodes well for the future. The coaching staff was driven and the players bought into their systems. Sure, rookie mistakes were made, a couple in Game 7 in fact that led to goals, but it’s all a part of learning. The one nice turnaround was the fan support this year. When the semifinals hit, people started to believe. Game 6 had a whopping crowd of 1,105 and Game 7 in Brantford was more than half Cambridge fans. So sorry that their barn will be empty again for the finals. The support on social media was also something to witness, as not only fans, but players were on twitter pumping up the team. The whole point of this is to give credit to players that played beyond people’s expectations this year and raised the hopes of fans for an even better next year. September can’t come to soon in this town. &#160; Courtesy of Bill Doucet at the Cambridge Times. See the original column here. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>From the Times: Cambridge takes Eagles to brink</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cambridge takes Eagles to brink Winter Hawks push Brantford to Game 7, but lose 4-2 on road The series wasn’t supposed to last long enough for the Brantford Golden Eagles to work up a sweat. Someone failed to communicate that to the Cambridge Winter Hawks. The Winter Hawks almost pulled off a huge upset on Sunday, but lost 4-2 to Brantford in Game 7 of the Midwestern Conference semifinals at the Wayne Gretzky Centre. The Golden Eagles won the series 4-3. Cambridge forced Game 7 with a 5-2 win on home ice Saturday in front of a crowd of 1,105. The Winter Hawks took Brantford to the brink and looked like they had the Golden Eagles where they wanted them heading to the third period, down 2-1. That was the deficit Cambridge came back from in games 4 and 6, to win. The scenario seemed perfect again. “That’s what we told the guys in the room, we had them exactly where we wanted them,” Winter Hawks head coach Peter Crosby said with a smile outside the dressing room, after a long talk with his team. “Those kids never quit and never gave up. They just kept working. That’s a young team in that room and they hold each other accountable like a veteran team. “In my coaching career this is the best group of athletes I’ve ever had. They went through the wall for each other.” The Winter Hawks were definitely the better team on the night, but a couple defensive miscues led to goals that Cambridge never got back. It was all Winter Hawks to start the game, but back-to-back two minute power plays led to Trent Hawke’s first of the night on a rebound in the slot. Ryan Clarke got that one back 16 seconds into the middle frame with wrist shot from the bottom of the right faceoff circle that slipped under Bryce O’Hagan’s blocker. Brantford caught a break with under three minutes left in the frame when Marselis Subban had a clearing shot bounce through his legs. Hawke pounced on the puck and scored again to give the Golden Eagles the lead. Cody Gratton had a chance to knot it again on breakaway with just 45 seconds remaining in the period, but just shot the puck over the crossbar. The Winter Hawks also suffered a bad break when Josh Timpano left the game in the second with an injured ankle after sliding hard into the end boards. Hawke finished off his hat trick in the third to give Brantford a 3-1 edge, but the Winter Hawks got that back at the midway mark of the period when Cody Gratton poked the puck to the front of the net past a diving O’Hagan and Lawrence Pagnan slid to knock it in the open net. The Winter Hawks came at Brantford with everything they had, but Hawke scored his fourth of the night in an open net on a missed offside call. The loss meant the end of the line for three graduating players. Ryan Clarke, Darcy Meyer and Brendan Gorecki finished their final Junior B year. Clarke, one of the most popular players to don a Winter Hawks jersey, was finding it hard to keep his emotions in check after the game. “We tried our best,” said the captain. “A lot of people never expected us to do what we did against the best team in the province and we took them to the final buzzer. We knew we had it in us to get this far but we came up a bit short. “This has been the best five years of my life and this year topped it off.” Clarke said he wanted to thank the coaching staff, management and his teammates for a thrilling cap to his junior career, but wanted to give a special thank you to the fans. “I want to make sure that we say thank you to them for coming to Brantford and the way they supported us. It was unbelievable. You’re not going to get that anywhere else.” There were also tears from Gorecki, who had the series of his career. There wasn’t a game where he faced under 40 shots. “I just basically try to help the team out,” he said about his playoff performance. “It was my last year, so I gave it all I had. I’m proud of the boys to do as well as we did. I missed half the season with injuries so I wanted to prove myself and the playoffs is the best place to do it.” Crosby had no shortage of praise for his goalie. “He had a hell of a series. He kept us in every game and gave us a chance to win every night.” In Game 6, the Winter Hawks got two third period goals each from Clarke and Gratton for the win. Timpano also scored. Brantford will now take on Stratford in the Cherrey Cup. &#160; Courtesy of Bill Doucet at the Cambridge Times. See the original article here.]]></description>
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		<title>From the Record: Eagles&#8217; Hawke crushes Cambridge hopes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eagles’ Hawke crushes Cambridge hopes Brantford forward scores four goals in deciding game to send Winter Hawks home for spring BRANTFORD — The Cambridge Winter Hawks took the Brantford Golden Eagles to the brink but fell just short of a comeback, dropping a gritty seven-game series with a 4-2 loss on Sunday night. “I give (Cambridge) all the respect in the world, it was a battle.” Golden Eagles head coach Mike Bullard said. “Both teams were beat up pretty good, but it was some great hockey for people to watch.” Brantford forward Trent Hawke carried the team on his back with all four of Golden Eagle’s goals on Sunday. The victory will send the Golden Eagles to the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League Mid-Western finals against the Stratford Cullitons. “You never expect to come into a game and score four goals, but my teammates kept giving me the puck,” Hawke said. Cambridge fought hard to push the series to seven games, but their inability to steal a game on the road ended up costing them the series. Even with a crowd full of cheering Cambridge fans, the Golden Eagles reigned supreme in Brantford. “Everyone thought it was going to be a four-and-out,” Winter Hawks head coach Peter Crosby said. “(The Golden Eagles) were 20-plus points ahead of us in the standings. It shows you how far heart can take you.” Hawke put Brantford on the board in the first period, beating goalie Brendan Gorecki with a rebound shot. Hawke later added two breakaway goals – an impressive deke that beat Gorecki on the backhand and a hard shot over the glove – to complete his hat trick . While Ryan Clarke managed to keep the Winter Hawks in the game with an early second period goal, and Lawrence Pagnan closed the gap once again in the third, Hawke’s performance was too much for Cambridge. “Trent Hawke is a leader,” Bullard said of the 20-year-old forward. “Our older players stepped up to the plate tonight and played one hell of a game.” Hawke added his fourth goal of the night when he fired the puck into the open net with 33 seconds left to seal the series for Brantford. Cambridge will begin their preparations for next season ready to improve on this year’s results. “Nineteen of our 22 guys are back (next season),” Crosby said. “What we take away from this is the ability to believe that we can win at this level . . . We’re a young team with a huge, huge, year ahead of us, and we were led by the greatest captain in this league, Ryan Clarke.” Gorecki, Clarke and Darcy Meyer are the only three players who will depart from the team in the off-season due to their age. “We battled right to the very end. We never gave up,” Clarke said. “For the younger guys on the team, there’s a lot of experience they can take out of this and use to their advantage in upcoming years.” &#160; Courtesy of Ryan McCracken at the Record. See the original article here.]]></description>
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		<title>From the Record: Winter Hawks force Game 7</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winter Hawks force Game 7 Driven by an inspirational speech from assistant coach Mike Down, the Cambridge Winter Hawks forced Game 7 in their Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League Mid-Western semi-final against the Brantford Golden Eagles with a 5-2 win on Saturday night. “We were down one with 20 minutes left. We didn’t want it to be the last 20 minutes of our season,” said Cambridge head coach Peter Crosby. “Mike Down gave a speech to the boys asking ‘What are you willing to sacrifice?’ . . . He gave a story of something that happened to him that had a major impact on these kids.” Cody Gratton led the third period charge for the Winter Hawks with two goals and an assist to lift his team from a 2-1 deficit to victory. “I just tried to come out big, play hard and try and help out the team,” Gratton said. Cambridge goalie Brendan Gorecki was also integral to the Winter Hawks victory on Saturday night. Gorecki stopped 38 of 40 shots and held off the Golden Eagles through a five-minute major penalty and a two-minute five-on-three in the second period. “Your best penalty killer has to be your goalie,” Crosby said. “Gorecki has been our best penalty killer all series long.” The Cambridge victory has pushed a great deal of pressure onto the top-seeded Golden Eagles, however with Sunday night’s Game 7 taking place in Brantford – where Cambridge has been handed each of their losses in this series – it will not be an easy road for the Winter Hawks. “It’s down to one game. Anything can happen in one game,” Crosby said. “We’ll address certain issues that I think need to be addressed in their barn, and hopefully our heart and our determination and our will to win will overcome the bad results we’ve had there in the past.” While the Golden Eagles travel back to Brantford contrary to plan, head coach Mike Bullard still feels confident in their chances on home ice. “We’ve been strong in our building all year,” Bullard said. “We’ve got to forget about (tonight) and get ready to play tomorrow.” Josh Timpano opened the scoring early for Cambridge, but Brantford erased the deficit with goals from Jeff Swift and Nate Mitton to put the Winter Hawks’ season on the line. Outshot 33-24 and down a goal through two periods, the Winter Hawks fought back. It only took 96 seconds for Ryan Clarke to knot things up in the third. The Cambridge captain put his team back in the game when he fired a hard shot into the top corner off a beautiful feed from Gratton. Seconds later, Gratton was taken down on a breakaway and given a penalty shot. Gratton made no mistake on his second chance, undressing Brantford goalie Bryce O’Hagan with a fantastic display of stick handling and sliding the puck into the back of the net to give Cambridge the lead. “I scored three goals on him top shelf, so I thought maybe I’d try something else,” Gratton said of his penalty shot. Gratton added a short-handed goal with nine minutes left to play, and Clarke added an empty-netter to put the game away. Game 7 is Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in Brantford &#160; Courtesy of Ryan McCracken at the Record. See the original article here. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>From the Times: Desperation time for Winter Hawks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Desperation time for Winter Hawks Cambridge loses 4-2 to Brantford, in must-win situation It’s desperation time for the Cambridge Winter Hawks. After losing 4-2 to the Brantford Golden Eagles last night in Game 5 at the Wayne Gretzky Centre, the Winter Hawks are in a must-win situation in the best-of-seven Midwestern Conference semifinal series. The Golden Eagles lead the series 3-2. &#160; “This is the first time we’ve had our backs against the wall and we now have to play like that,” said Winter Hawks head coach Pete Crosby. &#160; “There’s no sense holding back now, we just have to come with everything and go for it. The next two games, there’s no tomorrow. We have to look at it like that.” &#160; All the clichés apply now too, as the Winter Hawks have no room for error. &#160; “It’s desperate hockey because we’re one game away from elimination, but we have to be careful,” Crosby said. &#160; “You can play desperate and run all over the place and try and do it on your own, or you can go out and play desperate hockey and really commit to the individual stuff within a team setting, and work your butt off. Which these guys will do? They’ve done it the whole playoffs. &#160; The Achilles heel for the Winter Hawks last night was letting their emotions get the better of them. The Golden Eagles scores their first three goals on the power play, with the last going in the empty net. &#160; “Five-on-five, I thought we were the better team,” Crosby said. &#160; “Our discipline was very questionable last night. They went 3-for-11 on the power play and there’s your game. &#160; “That right there sums up the big picture for us. On the discipline side of the game we were a little out of sorts, but 5-on-5 we were the stronger team. We gave them the opportunities to score.” &#160; Crosby was careful to choose his words about the refereeing, especially when there were 18 minutes in minor penalties doled out in an important game, and three players were tossed. &#160; “I’ve never seen them before. They’re from the Niagara district,” he said. &#160; “When you get an officiating crew you’ve never seen or dealt with all year you don’t know to expect and there’s a large learning curve. There was some embellishment. (Josh) Timpano got thrown out for hitting (Andrew) Wilson from behind and he was down on the ice for a good five minutes, motionless, and he was back in the next shift. &#160; “Refereeing aside, we took 11 penalties. That was us. It is what it is. We gave them the opportunities, the refs didn’t.” &#160; But those penalties proved costly, as Matt Quilty scored in the both first and second period with the man advantage to give Brantford a 2-0 lead. Ryan Clarke cut the lead to 2-1 just 36 seconds into the third and Cody Gratton tied the game 12 minutes later. &#160; A too-many-men penalty hurt the Winter Hawks though late in the game, as Trent Hawke scored the winner with just over four minutes left. Mike Rebry scored into the empty net. &#160; Brendan Gorecki, while absorbing the loss, was brilliant again in net, stopping 50 shots. &#160; Game 6 goes tomorrow at 7 p.m. at the Galt Arena Gardens and Game 7, if necessary is in Brantford on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. &#160; Box office for Game 6 tickets opens at 4 p.m. &#160; Courtesy of Bill Doucet at the Cambridge Times. See the original article here.]]></description>
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