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Let’s go Wild at the provincial hockey finals
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regular season game schedule. “The kids are on an absolute high,” said Steven Malette, Wild head coach, during a phone interview March 16. This year’s entry into the provincials is a first for the regional hockey club. Malette noted that the Wild team during the 2008- 09 season came close to qualifying for the All-Ontario event but got tapped out in the district playoffs. “They had a very good team that year,” he said. This season’s Wild Major Bantam squad is also very good. The players proved it last seasonwhentheywereintheMinorBantam division by taking top spot in the regular season standings with a 20-3-5 game re-
Their head coach calls it “a storybook season” but for the members of the Wild hockey team it is more like a dream come true. TheEasternOntarioWildMajorBantam are in Vaughn next week representing the Ontario District Hockey Association and the Ontario District Major Hockey Asso- ciation (ODHA/ODMHA) at the triple-A level for the All-Ontario Provincial Championships. The Wild iced the Ottawa Senators 3-1 in the district playoff finals in Casselman March 13, capping their relegating the Sens to second place at the end of the
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Photo Trish Paupst The Wild celebrate their championship season in the ODHA before they get back into training to prepare for their entry into provincial-level competition at the All-Ontario Championships in Vaughn during the last week of March.
cordand45-pointtotal.AstheMajorBantam champs, they finished their regular season with a 23-4-1 game record and a 47-point total plus a slew of tournament wins to add to their trophy case. Malette credited the players focus on the team motto “Success is a choice” and solid teamwork as two of the key factors to the Wild’s success during the past two seasons. “That also is one of the team’s mottoes,” he said. “The ‘we’ has to be bigger than the ‘me’.” The Wild have their first game of the week-long provincial championships
scheduled for Monday morning, March 26 against the Sault Thunder representing the Northern Ontario Hockey Association. The two teams to beat at the provincials, Malette noted, will be the Thunder and Toronto’s Marlies. The main part of the Wild strategy against these teams and all others, Malette said, is to not underestimate the opposi- tion “Come out hard and come out skating,” he said. “We are going to be up against some stiff competition but we play some very strong defensive hockey.”
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