In doing so they showed what a team effort, one with the same goal in mind and what team work and hard work can do as they dominated the Valley Wildcats to earn the 2024 N.S. U-16 AAA Hockey League provincial title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The win, by a score of 7-1 before a boisterous crowd at the Sackville Arena in Lower Sackville, punched the Kings Hockey team’s ticket to the Atlantics in Moncton, N.B. next weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”8″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”169″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n While the players celebrated over goalie Nolan McLauchlan of Enfield in the corner of the rink near the zamboni, at least a couple of the Kings players recognized the importance everyone involved with the group meant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As they celebrated, the team’s two minor hockey player representatives (Cash O’Flaherty and Casey Murphy from the U11B SMH Flyers) skated on the ice with the team flag in hand skating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two players, no. 12 Duncan McElmon-Sullivan first and then no. 27 Jack MacMillan secondly, gave hugs to the two minor hockey players as if they were fully part of the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A moment that O’Flaherty and Murphy will remember for a long time, and an indication that those two players–McElmon-Sullivan and MacMillan–knew they too were part of the victory and made them feel as if they were exactly that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”115″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”67″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the game, the Kings led 4-0 after the first and never looked back as they cruised to the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nic MacIntyre scored twice, both with the man advantage, and Josh Hollett also had two, one with the power-play, led the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elmsdale’s Theo Stapleton, on the man advantage; Chace Munden of East Hants; and Will Elliott had the other goals for the winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jackson Orchard of Lantz; Max Blackwood of Windsor Junction; Dylen Probert all had single helpers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”192″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”188″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hollett; MacIntyre; Stapleton; and Munden also had one assist apiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n McLauchlan turned away 39 of 40 pucks fired at him to get the victory and send his team off to Moncton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At Atlantics, the Basin Armada; N.B. Thunderbirds from Moncton; and Dukes from PEI will join the Kings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Action starts Friday at the Atlantic championships and runs until April 7. All games are at the Crossman CC \/ Kay Arena. <\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”127″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”126″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”111″] [adrotate banner=”78″] LOWER SACKVILLE: The Kings Hockey came out with one goal in mind on Easter Sunday morning — and delivered an Easter present for their team and ownership. In doing so they showed what a team effort, one with the same goal in mind and what team work and hard work can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[6454,986,390,2,13,4825],"class_list":["post-44063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-atlantic-championship-kings-hockey-club","tag-elmsdale","tag-enfield","tag-fall-river","tag-lower-sackville","tag-ns-u16-aaa-hockey-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/GKCIFEYWIAEnWuq.jpg\")