It seemed impossible, as Team Black held a healthy lead for the majority of the days' competition, but Team White made a miracle comeback to win this year's Sens Skills 16-14 in overtime.
It seemed impossible, as Team Black held a healthy lead for the majority of the days’ competition, but Team White made a miracle comeback to win this year’s Sens Skills 16-14 in overtime.
The day kicked off with the PUCK CONTROL RELAY.
Up first were the Senators’ minor hockey participants. It was Gracie Vaive and Dax Bennett on Team White against Audrey Hafez and Jacob Vaive on Team Black. Winning the first point of the day was Team Black!
Up next were the big guys. Tim Stützle, Travis Hamonic, Emily Clarke, Danielle Serdachny, and Jacob Bernard-Docker from Team White went up against Artem Zub, Ridly Greig, Gabbie Hughes, Brianne Jenner and Matthew Highmore from Team Black.
Team White time: 1:45.485
Team Black time: 1:49.094
Next, it was time for the FASTEST SKATER event.
Team Black:
Team White:
And with that, Noah Gregor set a franchise record with 13.491! After that contest, Team Black took a HUGE lead.
Following up was the HARDEST SHOT event.
Team Black:
Team White:
After the first round, it was time for the championship round. For Team Black it was Drake Batherson and for Team White it was Tyler Kleven.
After all was said and done, Drake Batherson had the hardest shot overall with 104.4.
Next, the ACCURACY SHOOTING event.
Team Black:
Team White:
The next event was the SKILLS CHALLENGE.
Up first was the goalie shot, with Linus Ullmark shooting for Team Black. Stick handling and one-timer passing was Gabbie Hughes, while one-timer shooting were Noah Gregor and Thomas Chabot. On agility was Nikolas Matinpalo, and saucer passing was Adam Gaudette.
With the goalie shot for Team White was Anton Forsberg. Stick handling and one-timer passing was Michael Amadio, while one-timer shooting were Tim Stützle and Tyler Kleven. On agility was Jacob Bernard-Docker, and saucer passing was David Perron.
Team Black time: 1:03.273
Team White time: 44.238
The final event before the 3-on-3 match was the SHOOTOUT!
Team Black:
Team White:
After the shootout event, things were close!
For the final event, it was the five-minute 3-on-3 game.
Tim Stûtzle opened the scoring for Team White. With each goal being worth two points, that made it 12-10 Black.
Back at it was Tim Stützle with his second, on a breakaway, tying things for Team White 12-12.
Jacob Bernard-Docker scored for Team White to make it 14-12 but Thomas Chabot tied it back up just seconds later to keep his team alive at 14-14.
Things headed to overtime, which meant NEXT GOAL WINS!!!
And Tim Stützle completed the hat trick to win it for Team White 16-14!
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