{"id":63031,"date":"2026-03-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=63031"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:00:00","slug":"photos-annual-ettinger-smith-memorial-tournament-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=63031","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: Annual Ettinger-Smith Memorial tournament kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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LANTZ: <\/strong>The annual Trevor Ettinger-Jeff Smith Memorial tournament kicked off on Saturday at the East Hants Sportsplex in Lantz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The March Break tournament will see action in U9 Intermediate; U11C; U13C; U15B; and U18 divisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teams from across Nova Scotia and even some out of province squads are here competing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Laker News took in some of the first games on Saturday morning and here are a few photos from then in U9 INT and U11C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Action continues all week with it wrapping up March 20. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Max Lidstone of the Pens U9 INT skates by two Dartmouth players after a faceoff. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Sydney and Tatamagouche in action in U11C. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A Sackville Blue player trips up an East Hants Penguin with the puck. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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A Penguin scores a goal on his shot. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A Penguin carries the puck from a Sackville player behind the net. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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An U9 INT Penguin passes the puck during a game against Dartmouth. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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A Sackville Blue player reaches out to get the puck as two Penguin look on in U9 play. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The race for the puck is on. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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An East Hants U11C Penguin handles the puck away from the opposition. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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LANTZ: The annual Trevor Ettinger-Jeff Smith Memorial tournament kicked off on Saturday at the East Hants Sportsplex in Lantz. The March Break tournament will see action in U9 Intermediate; U11C; U13C; U15B; and U18 divisions. Teams from across Nova Scotia and even some out of province squads are here competing. The Laker News took in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[185,196,2334,2987,50,595,25,4915,4750],"class_list":["post-63031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-dartmouth","tag-east-hants","tag-east-hants-minor-hockey","tag-ehmha","tag-halifax","tag-lantz","tag-sackville","tag-sydney","tag-trevor-ettinger-jeff-smith-memorial-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63031","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=63031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}