Young Stars Tourney - Day 1

O CANADA! Its that time of year again! Hockey!

The young stars tourney started last night in Penticton and the South Okanagan Event Center was packed to the brim! I heard it was the second largest selling, next to the Hockey Day in Canada event. You cant really tell from this picture, most people are in line getting beers after the long lineups at the door that wrapped all the way around the outside of the building. I don't think the SOEC planned for it to be so busy.

National Anthem

Canucks VS Oilers

Oilers Bench, pre-game.

Canucks, Time Out. Pierre-Olivier Morin, Dan Gendur, Brad Smith, Adam Polasek

Fin attacks the Oilers fan (Grrrrrrr!) and knocks his glasses off his face, hahahaha! Fin's trying to make up for it with a hand shake.

Schroeder, Sweat, Clark line.

Aaron Volpatti shot on goal

Kevin Connauton's goal celebration

The one thing that I noticed last night was that Edmonton has a great young stars team, of course given the picks. The Canucks looked like they were out of sync, but in contrast, those Edmonton boys were constantly in the Canucks zone. Magnus Paajarvi was the best looking player on the ice to me, almost had a trick if not for a blocked shot.

Kevin Connauton was great for us. Looked dominant offensively and defensively. The top line of Schroeder, Sweat, Clark looked ok, but again a little out of sync.

I hope the Canucks will be able to bring it tonight. San Jose looked good, and tough, lastnight against Anahiem.

I’ve got some video too, some of the fights, I’ll try to post them too later tonight.

Sharks VS Ducks

Nick Bonino, Ducks young star

Fight 1 - Don't know who, sorry, too many beers by now.

Fight 2 - See above...

The Sharks looked good and tough.... or Anaheim looked bad and tough, one of those games that was kind of hard to tell. It was back and forth, but the score didn't reflect that, it was 5-1 Sharks when I left with 8mins to go in the game.