Acadia Hockey Development adds U of Maine Coach to Showcase Camp

We are very happy to announce that the University of Maine Black Bears Associate Head Coach Ben Guite will be a guest coach at the Acadia Hockey Development Hockey Showcase this summer.

β€œWe are very excited to be bringing Ben to Wolfville β€Žas one of our lead instructors for the Acadia Hockey Development Showcase. Ben’s resume speaks for itself. He is an extremely well respected NCAA coach and it is exciting to have him at our camp. Our main goal is to educate and promote kids in Atlantic Canada and there are many different streams in the game of hockey. It will be a great experience for our kids to learn from Ben and be exposed to NCAA hockey.” – Kris MacDonald, Acadia Axemen assistant coach.

Ben Guite – Associate Head Coach

University of Maine Black Bears

Promoted to Associate Head Coach on October 14, 2015.

Ben Guite, who helped lead Maine to the 1999 NCAA National Championship, begins his fourthΒ season as assistant coach of the Black Bears. Following his graduation from the University of Maine, Guite spent 13 years in professional hockey.

While at Maine, Guite helped lead the Black Bears to their second national championship in 1999 before being named an assistant captain and guiding the Black Bears back to the Frozen Four in 2000. Guite totaled 47 goals, including nine game-winners, and added 49 assists for 96 points in 146 games at Maine. A Montreal, Quebec native, Guite scored the first goal in Maine’s national championship victory over New Hampshire and added an assist in the Frozen Four semifinal win over Boston College. During his senior year in 1999-00, Guite totaled a team-high 22 goals with 14 assists for 36 points in 40 games.Β  As a junior, the former Black Bear forward had 12 goals and 16 assists in 40 games after totaling six goals and 12 assists in 32 games as a sophomore. During his rookie season, Guite ranked second among Maine first-year players with 14 points on seven goals and seven assists in 34 games.Read more »

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We are very happy to announce that Halifax Mooseheads assistant coach Jon Greenwood will be a guest coach at the showcase this summer. Jon was also recently named Head Coach for the Nova Scotia Canada Games team for 2019.

β€œWe are extremely excited to be adding Jon to our camp staff. He is a very well respected young coach who works for one of Β the most prestigious programs in the Canadian Hockey League. His work with many of the Quebec Leagues young stars has been very impressive to follow. It is extremely evident he knows what it takes for young players to get better in order for them to develop. He is committed to helping them along this path.” – Darren Burns

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Featuring Halifax Mooseheads assistant coach Jon Greenwood

Greenwood joined the Mooseheads prior to the start of the 2014-15 season after spending two years as the Head Coach of the Cole Harbour WolfPack Midget AAA team. He has also served as Director of Hockey Development at the Maritime Hockey Academy for seven years. The Cole Harbour native was named the 2013-14 coach of the year in the Nova Scotia Major Midget Hockey League. Greenwood and wife Lisa have two children, daughter Madeline and son Nolan.

Greenwood graduated from Saint Mary’s University with a B.A Degree followed by a Bachelor of Education at the University of Maine.

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TRAINING CAMP DATES:

Thursday July 27th – Saturday, July 29th

Registration begins on Thursday at 10:30am

Camp finishes on Saturday at 1:00pm

Ages: 2002-2004

COST: $410 (Camp includes Jersey)

TRAINING CAMP INCLUDES:

  • 9 Hours on Ice
    • Skills
    • Execution
    • Skating
    • Scrimmages
  • Off-ice Training
    • Led by Acadia’s Elliott Richardson
  • Classroom Sessions & Presentations

Featuring Halifax Mooseheads assistant coach Jon Greenwood

Greenwood joined the Mooseheads prior to the start of the 2014-15 season after spending two years as the Head Coach of the Cole Harbour WolfPack Midget AAA team. He has also served as Director of Hockey Development at the Maritime Hockey Academy for seven years. The Cole Harbour native was named the 2013-14 coach of the year in the Nova Scotia Major Midget Hockey League. Greenwood and wife Lisa have two children, daughter Madeline and son Nolan.

Greenwood graduated from Saint Mary’s University with a B.A Degree followed by a Bachelor of Education at the University of Maine.

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Back to back: SSM girls prep repeats as 19U USA Hockey national champions

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Call the Sabres locked in. Call them tough. Call them clutch.

Call them champions.

The Shattuck-St. Mary’s girls prep hockey team repeated as national champions, winning the USA Hockey Nationals Girls Tier I 19U title Monday with a 3-1 win over the Chicago Mission in Rochester, Michigan.

Senior Brette Pettet had the winning and insurance goals for the Sabres, who came back from a 1-0 deficit after one period of play.

The girls prep team was the lone SSM squad still in play for a title when it took the ice Monday afternoon. The boys U16 team lost a 2-1 game earlier in the day, while the boys prep and girls U16 teams fell in the semifinals Sunday.

β€œWe knew this morning that the boys U16 had lost, so they knew we were the last team standing,” girls prep coach Gordie Stafford said. β€œOur program, it is a program, regardless of gender, the teams always support one another. They play for their school, and that was important for them.”

SSM was without leading goal scorer Maureen Murphy, who had to sit out the championship after taking a game misconduct penalty in Sunday’s 1-0 semifinal win over the Mid Fairfield CT Stars. As a result, SSM rotated defensemen into the third-line center spot, ensuring that line had a definite presence all game in what Stafford called a full-team win.

A group of Sabres that’s handled pretty much everything thrown at it over the last few years steeled itself a little more knowing Murphy was out for the championship.

β€œI think it’s not as if you need extra incentive in a national championship game,” Stafford said. β€œBut they’re driven people anyway, and that gave them another reason. Just this whole team, but the senior group is just so cohesive and they just love playing in those games. They played in so many of those games and I think it’s almost like once you’ve played in those games and you’ve experienced the exhilaration of those games, you’re not nervous for them, you’re excited for them. That’s how they are. Just unflappable too.”

The Mission’s Hannah Alt scored 7 minutes, 17 seconds into the first, and it was 1-0 after one. Becca Foggia scored at the 9:50 mark of the second to tie the game 1-1.

Pettet scored on a wrist shot from the right circle on a rush at the 15:51 mark to give the Sabres the lead. She added a power-play goal at 15:12 in the third from the left circle to help seal the win.

Stafford called it fitting for Pettet, who as an eighth-grader in 2013, had the tying and game-winning goals for the U16 team in the championship β€” a win that started a four-year streak of championships for the SSM U16 girls.

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Steeves, ice Axemen cap successful season with USports bronze medal

By John DeCoste ’77

(WOLFVILLE, N.S. ) – For goalie Robert Steeves, the 2016-2017 university hockey season was the most satisfying – not to mention the most successful – of his three years at Acadia, culminating in a national bronze medal.

The Axemen were 2-1 at the USports University Cup in Fredericton, defeating Alberta 4-1, and after a 3-0 semifinal loss to eventual-champion UNB, claiming the bronze medal with a convincing 7-3 victory over St. F.X., a team Acadia had previously beaten just once all season.

“It felt really good, winning the bronze medal,” Steeves said in an interview March 30. “We were able to beat X when it counted.” He joked, “maybe we were saving ourselves for that game.”

Steeves, 24, who is in his third year of a business degree at Acadia, was born and grew up in Moncton, though his parents currently live about an hour north in Bouctouche, N.B.

After one year of Junior A in Dieppe, he played major junior for four seasons in the QMJHL, two with Acadie-Bathurst and two with Gatineau, before being recruited to Acadia in 2014.

“I knew I wanted to come back to the Maritimes for university, and I had talked to a few schools,” he says. “I didn’t know much about Acadia, but my dad is an Acadia grad. He was a big influence on my decision to come here.”

In his first year at Acadia, Steeves got into just four games. He “got off to a rocky start my first game,” and was replaced by Brandon Glover who ended up “having a great year that year,” helping lead the Axemen to a berth in the University Cup.

“It was a bit of a learning experience for me,” Steeves says of his rookie year. “I had been a starter for my last three years in junior,” and watching the action from the bench was an adjustment.Read more »

Schemitsch named All-Canadian

FREDERICTON (U SPORTS) – Philippe Maillet, a fourth-year forward from the UNB Varsity Reds, was named the U SPORTS Player of the Year in men’s hockey, Wednesday night. Acadia’s Geoff Schemitsch was honoured as a second team All-Canadian. Schemitsch was named a first team AUS All-Star and the AUS Most Sportsmanlike Player of the Year.

CHAMPIONSHIP WEBSITE: http:www.universitycup.caΒ 

Maillet, a Business Administration student from Terrebonne, QuΓ©bec, becomes the first UNB player to be named Player of the Year since Hunter Tremblay in the 2009-2010 season, and the fourth in the program’s history.

Other U SPORTS award winners announced during the All-Canadian Gala were UNB’s Jordan Murray, Defenceman of the Year; Saskatchewan’s Jordon Cooke, Goaltender of the Year; Concordia forward Anthony De Luca, Clare Drake Award (Rookie of the Year); Calgary forward Elgin Pearce, R.W. Pugh Award (Most Sportsmanlike Player); Saskatchewan’s Dave Adolph, Father George Kehoe Memorial Award (Coach of the Year); and Ryerson forward Aaron Armstrong, Dr. Randy Gregg Award (Student-Athlete Community Service).

The 2017 U SPORTS Cavendish Farms University Cup, hosted by UNB, gets underway Thursday, March 16th at the Aitken University Centre. The action closes on Sunday, March 12 with the gold medal final, live on Sportsnet 360 (1 p.m. AT). Saturday’s semifinals are also live on Sportsnet 360 (12 p.m. AT & 4 p.m. AT), while the quarter-finals and the bronze medal match are set to air on USPORTS.LIVE.

SENATOR JOSEPH A. SULLIVAN TROPHY (Player of the Year): Philippe Maillet, UNB

A fourth-year forward from Terrebonne, Que., Maillet led the nation in points with 55 on the season. His 32 assists and 23 goals were the second and third-most, respectively, notched by any U SPORTS player.

He led the country in power play goals with 14 and his plus-minus rating of plus-34 was the best in U SPORTS.

Maillet is a two-time MVP of Atlantic University Sport (2014-15 and 2016-17). In 2013-14, he was named AUS Rookie of the Year.

He’s been an AUS First Team All-Star three consecutive seasons, and was a First Team U SPORTS All-Star in 2014-15. In 2013-14, Maillet was a member of the AUS All-Rookie Team and an AUS Second Team All-Star.Read more »

Game 1 goes Monday in Wolfville

WOLFVILLE, N.S. – The Axemen hockey team will have a second chance to get to the U SPORTS National Championship hosted by UNB. They may not be vying for the AUS championship, but the National Championships will have two AUS teams along with host UNB. UNB will be taking on StFX in the best of three AUS champoinship, while the Axemen will take on Saint Mary’s beginning Monday, March 6. Both losers of the AUS semi-finals will play a best of three series to become the last entrant into the U SPORTS championship in Fredericton, N.B. March 16-19.

Consolation Series (Best 2-of-3): Saint Mary’s (4) vs. Acadia (2)

Game 1: Monday, Mar. 6 – Saint Mary’s at Acadia, 7 p.m.
Game 2: Wednesday, Mar. 8 – Acadia at Saint Mary’s, 7 p.m.
Game 3: Friday, Mar. 10 – Saint Mary’s at Acadia, 7 p.m.*
(*if necessary)

All games of the AUS championship finals will be broadcast live on Fibe TV (TV1β€”channels 1 and 401) and webcast at www.AUStv.ca. All games of the consolation final series will be webcast on AUStv.

The 2017 Cavendish Farms U Cup national championship is being hosted by the University of New Brunswick March 16-19 in Fredericton. The Atlantic conference receives three berths in the national championship.

Schemitsch, Pufahl & Harper honored

(HALIFAX, N.S.) – Atlantic University Sport is pleased to announce the 2016-17 AUS men’s hockey major award winners and all-stars as selected by the conference’s seven head coaches following regular season play.

Fourth-year UNB forward Philippe Maillet has been named the Atlantic University Sport most valuable player.

Other AUS major award winners announced today were Saint Mary’s Hunter Garlent of Thorold, Ont., who was named rookie of the year; Acadia’s Geoff Schemitch of Thornhill, Ont., who was selected as the most sportsmanlike player; StFX’s Eric Locke of Toronto, Ont., who earned the Godfrey award for student-athlete community service; and UNB head coach Gardiner MacDougall who was named the AUS coach of the year for the fifth time in his career.Read more »