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TRIDENT, NOVEMBER 16, 2009
Mooseheads appreciate DND
By Benjamin J. DeLong
Trident Staff
The Halifax Mooseheads
hockey team honoured
DND and the Canadian military
on Saturday, November 7,
in their sixth annual DND
Appreciation night.
Canadian Forces Halifax
Personnel Support Programs,
in partnership with the Mooseheads,
presented this game,
which was part of the team’s
Quebec Major Junior Hockey
League (QMJHL) regular season.
The Mooseheads played
against the Rocket hockey
team from PEI.
Despite having three members
of the team with the flu,
the Mooseheads swept the PEI
Rocket, 4-1.
The Stadacona band played
the national anthem and CF
and DND personnel received
discounted tickets to the
game. A colour party escorted
RAdm Paul Maddison, Commander
JTFA and MARLANT
for his speech at centre ice.
He stated “What a wonderful
event. I’m so glad to do this
again this year. It means so
much to our military for you to
show support for what we do
here in Canada, and to show
support to those deployed
abroad around the world. To
those of you from Halifax:
thank you. It means a lot that
we’re respected for what we
do on your behalf.”
RAdm Maddison was
accompanied by Bdr Adam
Boutlier, who was seriously
injured by an IED explosion
in Kandahar on February 5,
2009. He joined RAdm Maddison
at centre ice for the official
puck drop.
The game began and within
the first few minutes, the
Mooseheads scored. This
would be 16-year-old forward,
Brent Andrew’s first
QMJHL goal. Six minutes later,
the Mooseheads would
have sealed their victory
over the Rocket as forward
The sixth annual DND Appreciation Night at the Halifax Metro Centre was a blow-out game
between the Halifax Mooseheads and the PEI Rocket.
Charles Bety scored, but the
goal was revoked after a
review. It took another five
minutes for Mooseheads centre
offence Matthew Stoddard
to score, making the
score 2-0 Mooseheads.
The second period favoured
PEI, with eight minutes of
penalties on Halifax. The
Rocket took nine shots on net
but couldn’t get any past the
Mooseheads’ goalie. There
was a good sign that Halifax
would dominate the third period,
as PEI received two penalties
in the last two minutes of
the second period.
In the third period, Mooseheads
centre forward Tomas
Knotek scored a third goal 30
seconds into the third period,
assisted by right wing offence
Travis Randell and defenceman
Garrett Clarke. The next
goal was two minutes later by
left wing offence Gabriel Desjardins.
Mooseheads had 25
shots on net and PEI had 22.
The third period drew
penalty time for both teams
and with one minute left, it
seemed to be a shutout
victory for the Mooseheads
until, with only 30.7 seconds
on the clock, PEI forward
Jordan Escott got one past
the goalie, with an assist
from forward Brandon Street.
BEN DELONG, TRIDENT STAFF
The final score was 4-1 for
the Mooseheads.
Ken Doucette, Corporate
Services Director PSP Halifax,
stated “DND Appreciation
Night is one of our most
important annual events. The
Mooseheads organization is
amazingly supportive to the
military community and we
are very grateful for that.”
Brian Urquhart, Mooseheads
Vice President Business Operations,
stated “The entire
organization, staff, players
and fans look forward to this
oppurtunity each season to
honour and say thanks to the
men and women of our CF.”
Both teams wore helmets
depicting poppies and the
Mooseheads’red jerseys bore
embroidered poppy crests.
Five jerseys were given away
during the game in a raffle
to benefit Camp Hill Veterans’
Memorial Hospital. The
remaining jerseys will be
auctioned on November 27 at
the Fleet Club.