The Thompson King Miners outscored The Pas Huskies 5-0 in the Doug’s Source for Sports Cup game to win the AA division title at the Prince-Berscheid peewee hockey tournament in Thompson Jan. 15.
The King Miners opened scoring with a power play goal by Ian Snooks on the first penalty call of the game in the first period. Clark Scaddan put in Snooks’s rebound with 10:14 left in the second period and Thompson shorthanded to double the lead. Carter Anderson then scored his first of two goals in the game about three minutes before the second intermission. He scored again in the late stages of the final period before Snooks got his second with two minutes to play.
The AA King Miners were undefeated in the tournament, opening with a 23-2 win over the Cross Lake Islanders Jan. 13 and then beating The Pas 7-1 later that evening. They defeated the Flin Flon Bombers 10-0 and Swan River 6-1 in their final round robin game.
The peewee A King Miners were less than a minute from a spot in the A division Prince-Berscheid Cup championship game, but a pair of goals by the Norway House North Stars – the first with 51.4 seconds to play in the game and Thompson leading 3-2, the second on a rebound with 29.5 seconds to play – left them on the wrong side of a 4-3 score in the semifinals and meant they would play in the Landers Cup bronze medal game instead. Norway House got two goals in the second period to lead 2-0 before the King Miners drew within one before the end of the frame. Third period goals 70 seconds apart during a four-minute power play put the King Miners up with five minutes to play but they could not hold on for the shot at the tournament championship.
The Landers Cup game started badly for Thompson, which gave up the first four goals to the Tataskweyak Eagles before battling back to make it 5-2 at the end of the first period. The teams traded seven goals in the middle frame, with the King Miners twice drawing within a pair of goals, but they could not close the gap any further and the Eagles scored four unanswered goals in the third period to win the Landers Cup by a 12-6 score.
The A King Miners opened the tournament with a 23-0 shutout of Cross Lake on Jan. 13, then lost 8-5 to Arviat the next day before closing the round robin with an 8-3 win over Norway House B.
Arviat beat Norway house A 7-1 to win the Prince-Berscheid Cup as A division champions.
