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A few Flin Flon hockey players have teamed up with members of the Novice Norman Icedogs to end out the extended season. Pictured here are coach Kris Lee (back, right) of Flin Flon with assistant coaches Bruce Krentz and Travis Bloomer of Thompson. Joining the coaches are Carson Lee, Sean Yaworski, Justin Nixon of Flin Flon Sienna Danielson joined the team from The Pas, along with Troy Head of OCN. Armando Evans was the lone player from Cross Lake while Keegan Sullivan, Shayna Moore, Keistan Saunders, Jamie Valentino, Murphy Krentz, Sheldin Howard are from Thompson. The team traveled to Portage La Prairie for an extended season tourney, which works different from a regular tournament. Anyone is eligible to make a team and attend the event. A Norman team was created, with the allowance of taking players from five places in the region. The Novice teams was made up of the strongest 2001 born players available. The team played together for the first time in the tournament, which took some getting used to. Norman lost their Friday, April 9 game against Portage 13-3. Saturday's game, however, was a 7-4 win against Southwest for Norman. And later that day, the Icedogs won a big 16-0 over Springfield. Sunday's game was semifinals to get to the gold game Ð leaving the Icedogs down 9-3 against Yellowhead. Yellowhead went on to win against Portage in the Gold game finals. If there was a Bronze medal game, the Icedogs would have played against Brandon. Ð Compiled from a submitted article
