(above) DU recruit Joe ColborneFrom: Edmonton Sun
by Richard Wright
DU Recruits Joe Colborne and Shawn Ostrow will lay it on the line tonight in a deciding Game 7 for the Alberta Junior Hockey League championship for the Camrose Kodiaks. It's interesting to think history might come full circle in Camrose.
Back in April 2005. The Kodiaks, featuring former Pioneer player T.J. Fast, were basically fish out of water in the AJHL's championship series against Fort McMurray, facing certain death after going down 3-1 in the best of seven tilt.
The Kodiaks managed, however, to do the near impossible and clawed their way back into the series, eventually winning Game 7 at home.
Forward Mason Raymond (Minnesota Duluth), who has just finished his rookie campaign with the Vancouver Canucks, was a treat to watch in that series, as were a host of other players. But Raymond's late goal in Game 6 in Fort McMurray simply drained all hope of an Oil Barons win. Fort McMurray went into Game 7 in Camrose and had no chance.
So, the question now is, do the Barons get to return the favour tonight back in the same place they fell on their faces just three years ago?
Less than a week ago, and facing their own 3-1 deficit, few would have thought it possible. But that's the way it goes.
No one ever predicts a team so far back in a series can make it back into the land of the living. It's not until this point of the comeback - Game 7 - that the believers start chirping again.
Fort McMurray has the momentum, but they don't have what Camrose had in '05, which was home ice for the deciding game.
Back in April 2005. The Kodiaks, featuring former Pioneer player T.J. Fast, were basically fish out of water in the AJHL's championship series against Fort McMurray, facing certain death after going down 3-1 in the best of seven tilt.
The Kodiaks managed, however, to do the near impossible and clawed their way back into the series, eventually winning Game 7 at home.
Forward Mason Raymond (Minnesota Duluth), who has just finished his rookie campaign with the Vancouver Canucks, was a treat to watch in that series, as were a host of other players. But Raymond's late goal in Game 6 in Fort McMurray simply drained all hope of an Oil Barons win. Fort McMurray went into Game 7 in Camrose and had no chance.
So, the question now is, do the Barons get to return the favour tonight back in the same place they fell on their faces just three years ago?
Less than a week ago, and facing their own 3-1 deficit, few would have thought it possible. But that's the way it goes.
No one ever predicts a team so far back in a series can make it back into the land of the living. It's not until this point of the comeback - Game 7 - that the believers start chirping again.
Fort McMurray has the momentum, but they don't have what Camrose had in '05, which was home ice for the deciding game.
5 comments:
Camrose up 1-0 early in the 2nd on a 1st period Joe Colborne goal.
Camrose 1-0 after 2 periods
Camrose scores early in the 3rd to make it 2-0
Camrose Kodiaks wins 2-0 and will face Penticton in the Doyle Cup. Joe Colborne scores a power play goal in the 1st which is the game winner.
Ostrow was the first star!
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