The Gillespie's Tree Service U15 Red Devils had a pair of games in this last week before the holiday break.
Looking to build on their momentum from last weekend the squad hosted the newly formed North Shore Whitecaps in their first meeting of the season on Wednesday night. Trent Clow got the scoring started on the power play in the first period banging home a rebound off a Lauchlan Whelan shot. North Shore would tie it up before the end of the first on a 5 on 3 powerplay of their own. The Whitecaps would add a second marker before the end of the first to make it a 2-1 game heading into the break. All the offense in the second and third periods belonged to the Red Devils. Andrew Laurin finished off a great passing play with Whelan and Jax Martin to tie the game up early in the second period and that's how we would head into the second intermission. The teams would stay knotted at 2 through most of the third period before Brechyn Aird fired the game winning goal home with assists going to Laurin and Clow.
Sunday saw another road trip up the 404 to take on the York Simcoe Express for game 2 of the season series. The Red Devils took an early 1-0 lead after Lauchlan Whelan knocked down a pass and went end to end for an unassisted tally. This was all the offence the team could muster with YSE scoring to late goals to take down QRD by a 2-1 score.
The squad heads into the holiday break firmly positioned in the top 5 in the league just past the half way point in the regular season. Over the break the team is looking forward to the challenge of the Toronto Marlboros Holiday Classic Dec 27-30 and the OMHA Crossover Weekend in Milton Jan 3-4.
We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our fans and sponsors, as well as the rest of the QRD teams and families, Happy Holidays! We will see all of our supporters back in the rink after the break.
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