Several teams on Sunday had a long, rough night. Canada Colorado had their starting goaltender back after a 5 week hiatus from injury, but fell 12-2 to Hollowbrook. AMOS fell to the World Orphans 8-1. Platinum fell 8-4 to Triple J, and Nelson fell 11-6 to Office Scapes.
AMOS added free Agent Ian Ward to their roster last week after starting goalie Joseph Glowacki was ruled out for the remainder of the season with a head injury. Ward played seven games last year as a sub and ended with a 3.71 GAA. His first game as AMOS’s starting goalie did not go their way as AMOS fell to Platinum Group, 6-4.
Week eight brought us a competitive slate of games with the largest differential coming from AMOS’s 8-4 win over Canada Colorado. In that game, Free Agent Gavin Gray led all scorers with three goals, while subbing for AMOS. Platinum Group beat OfficeScapes 5-2 behind Tyler Kettner’s two goals and Thane Gilmore’s excellent play between the pipes. World Orphans came back from an early two goal deficit to beat Triple J 8-6. Ross Thompson scored four times to lead the World Orphans. HollowBrook Dental started very slow in their game against Nelson & Co. going down 6-0 before coming back to lose by only two, 9-7. Ruben Rumbaut led Nelson with his four goal performance.
Week 7 started with a 6-6 tie between Platinum Group and World Orphans. Four different players scored two goals each in this game…Parmiter and Thompson from World Orphans, as well as, (Andrew) McIlhany and Fritz from Platinum. Game number two saw Nelson & Co. beat Canada Colorado 7-5. Nelson is 3-0-1 in their last 4 games. This game also saw four players score two goals each…Twitchell, Cuvala, and Pederson from Nelson and Maetzold from Canada Colorado. The third game of the night saw Triple J take down AMOS 7-3. This game too had four players score at least two goals…Downs, Thien, and Ciampoli from Triple J and Martin from AMOS. The final game of the night had HollowBrook Dental continuing to roll over the NORAD league beating OfficeScapes 9-3. In this game HollowBrook themselves had four different players score two goals…(Jesse) Theken, (Ty) Smith, (Hayden) Smith, and (Steve) Smith.
Nelson & Company and The World Orphans gave us our 1st tie of the season in a 4-4 showdown. Triple J took a beating 12-1, after missing their starting goalie Jeff Schmidt for the 2nd week in a row. Canada Colorado’s goalie experienced a major equipment malfunction and had to leave the ice to get it fixed, causing a 10min delay in game time. However the damage couldn’t be undone and they were not able to come back, losing 8-1. Office Scapes and AMOS had a close, tight battle. But AMOS managed to come out victorious with 2 goals in the 3rd.
What a night, with several high scoring intense games.
Hollowbrook increased their win streak to 3 with a 7-2 win over AMOS. Office Scapes moved into 3rd place with their win over Triple J, 9-1. Canada Colorado started out strong, but then fell to the World Orphans 8-2. And we closed out the night with an intense fight between Nelson & Company and Platinum Group with N&C downing PLG 6-2.
Nelson & Company had one helluva battle against Office Scapes to claim their 1st Win of the season. After 2 periods the game was tied at 4, but Nelson came together and put up 4 more goals, to finalize their 1st win 8-5 over Office Scapes.
For those that watched last night, there was one heck of battle between Hollowbrook Dental and Platinum Group in Week 2 of NORAD. Hollowbrook pressed hard and often getting the lead on Platinum early, but in the end Platinum managed to battle back for one heck of a come back!
Even though Canada Colorado fell to the defending cup champs for their 2nd loss of the season, they had a major turnaround in their play as a team. They look to build on that momentum going into week 3. We also saw our first shut of the season with AMOS downing Nelson & Company 4-0. Congrats to Joe Glowacki on the hard earned shut out!
The first week of the NORAD Season is in the books. There were some very competitive games and one blowout to start off the 2022/2023 season. AMOS started the season with a decisive 7-1 win over Canada Colorado. Newcomers helped lead the charge for AMOS as Trevor Chavez scored a goal and added two assists, while goaltender, Joseph Glowacki, only allowed one goal. In the second game of the night, the number one pick in the draft, Ruben Rumbaut, had four assists for Nelson & Company, but it wasn’t enough as Nelson fell to HollowBrook Dental 9-6. Another player new to the league, Zach DeBlois, had two goals to help OfficeScapes beat Platinum Group 5-3 in the third game. Platinum Group was without their sponsor, Jesse Chambless, as he recovers from a wrist injury. In the final game of the night, Ross Thompson and Sam Downs both scored twice, but it was Thompson’s World Orphans that took down the defending champs, Triple J, 6-4.
The night started with Nelson & Company selecting Ruben Rumbaut (pictured above) with the first overall pick in the draft. Rumbaut, fresh off his championship season with Triple J, will look to help Nelson right the ship this year.
Victor and Rumbaut were bumped from a 5 to a 6 this season due to their outstanding performance last season.
Then OfficeScapes selected Casey Victor (pictured below with Office Scapes Sponsor) with the second pick. Victor is coming off a top 10 scoring season and looking to bring some of that firepower to OfficeScapes.
Triple J capped the night off by selecting Nicole Downs with the last pick in the draft. This will be Downs’ first season in the NORAD Hockey League.
Congratulations to all of the players that were selected this year and we look forward to seeing everyone on the ice!
