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Ottawa Citizen
09-05-2025
- Sport
- Ottawa Citizen
Centennial Cup guide: 'High-end offensive guys' on Greater Sudbury Cubs
Article content Brad Moran and the Calgary Canucks host the 2025 Centennial Cup, beginning Thursday at Max Bell Centre. Article content The annual hockey tournament to crown a Canadian Junior Hockey League king begins Thursday and runs through May 18, with 10 teams vying for the coveted championship, won last year by the Ontario Junior Hockey League's Collingwood Blues. Article content The teams are split into two pools — Group A featuring the Trenton Golden Hawks, the Northern Manitoba Blizzard, the Grande Prairie Storm, the Greater Sudbury Cubs and the Kam River Fighting Walleye and Group B comprised of the host Canucks, the Melfort Mustangs, the Rockland Nationals, the Valleyfield Braves and the No. 1-ranked Edmundston Blizzard — with each team lining up for four round-robin contests to start the event. Article content Article content Article content The skinny: The Cubs — as a nine-loss club in 2024-25 — join the Canucks and the Mustangs as the only teams returning to the national championship for a second-straight year, marking their only two trips to the Centennial Cup as the Cubs. But unlike the Canucks and the Mustangs, the Cubs didn't make last spring's playoff round. They return 13 players from last spring, as well. Article content Moran: 'Some really high-end offensive guys. You've got to shut them down if you're going to play them well.' Article content The Cubs' first game is Friday against the Grand Prairie Storm, then Saturday versus the Northern Manitoba Blizzard. Article content Article content The skinny: The Canucks — one of just three teams returning from the 2024 Centennial Cup — are the only team of the 10 competing for this year's crown which has won the national championship. That came in 1995 over the host Gloucester Rangers. Seven players return for another run at the title. Article content Canucks GM/head coach Brad Moran: 'We've gotta play our game. Speed and execution will be our key. If we keep it simple and execute, I think we'll be OK.' Article content Moran: 'I think as good a team as we're going to find here. They've got a ton of offence, and defensively, they've got big, strong guys on the back end and a good goalie.'
Winnipeg Free Press
02-05-2025
- Sport
- Winnipeg Free Press
Blizzard weather the storm on the road
As the clock struck midnight in Dauphin Friday, the Northern Manitoba Blizzard booked their ticket to the Centennial Cup, defeating the Kings in triple-overtime. Quincy Supprien was the Game 7 hero, sliding the puck underneath the blocker of Dauphin goaltender Cole Sheffield with 5:57 to play in the sixth frame for the 2-1 victory. Supprien, an assistant captain for the Blizzard, was recruited from Quebec by second-year head coach Eric Labrosse. He's one of four Blizzard players who followed Labrosse from Quebec. TODD PEDERSON PHOTO Quincy Supprien (left) got the game-winning goal for the Northern Manitoba in Game 7 of the Turnbull Cup on Thursday. Supprien's game-winning goal came on the 94th shot of the game. 56 of those shots came from Dauphin, but rookie goaltender Taye Timmerman's 55-save performance helped clinch the Blizzard's first Turnbull Cup since 2003. Timmerman, who turned 18 in February, was cut last year by his regional AAA team. Now, he's an MJHL champion, whose .937 save percentage and 1.68 goals-against average led all goaltenders in the post-season. Timmerman was the MJHL Playoff MVP co-winner, sharing the award with Dauphin's Sheffield. Scoring began at the 17:38 mark of the first period, when 16-year-old Alexandre Andre won a race to the net and buried the rebound to give the Blizzard a 1-0 lead. Dauphin outshot the Blizzard 15-7 in the first frame and showed no signs of slowing in the second. At the 15:31 mark, Dauphin centre Declan Hoad tied the game, beating Timmerman glove side on an offensive rush. No one would score again for nearly 80 minutes. TODD PEDERSON PHOTO Dauphin Kings goalie Cole Sheffield stopped 36 shots to keep the home side in the game Thursday night. When these two teams met in the first-round of last year's MJHL playoffs, it required seven games and eleven overtime periods to determine a winner. Now, in Game 7 of the Turnbull Cup final, they were off to triple overtime for the second time in the series. Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. Late in the first overtime period, Blizzard forward Louis-Jacob Beauregard slipped into the boards. The game was halted as Beauregard was transported to the Dauphin Regional Health Centre. He's since been released. Two periods later, Supprien's game winner sent the Blizzard — and their fans who had travelled roughly 400 kilometres from The Pas and surrounding areas — into a frenzy. The Blizzard become the youngest team to win the Turnbull Cup in decades. TODD PEDERSON PHOTO Northern Manitoba Blizzard Taye Timmerman made 55 saves on Thursday night. Marlen Edwards, 18, Tyler Dahms, 19, and Supprien, also 19, finished atop the MJHL post-season scoring race. They are part of 20 players eligible to return next season to the Blizzard, who graduate six. The MJHL champion Blizzard begin their quest for the Centennial Cup on May 8 in Calgary. TODD PEDERSON PHOTO The Northern Manitoba Blizzard won the Turnbull Cup on the road Thursday, beating the Dauphin Kings 2-1 in triple overtime. TODD PEDERSON PHOTO The Northern Manitoba Blizzard won the Turnbull Cup on the road Thursday, beating the Dauphin Kings 2-1 in triple overtime.
CTV News
02-05-2025
- Sport
- CTV News
Northern Manitoba hockey team wins MJHL championship in triple overtime game
The Northern Manitoba Blizzard poses after wining the Turnbull Cup in Dauphin, Man. on May 1, 2025. (
