Huron Expositor, 2004-12-08, Page 1212 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, Dec. 8, 2004
Sports
Local OHL'ers playing in 'mini -NHL'
By Jason Middleton
Expositor Staff
They might not be making
the big bucks they'd make
playing in the National
Hockey League, but two
local Ontario Hockey League
players say that since a
lockout began in the NHL
earlier this year their league
has helped fill in the void for
hockey fans.
This season, 18 -year-old
hockey players, Tyler Doig,
of Seaforth, and Cal O'Reilly,
of Brucefield, are facing off
in a league known as one of
the best amateur leagues in
North America.
"It's like a mini -NHL right
now," Doig said. "If feels
pretty good playing in front
of a lot of fans.
Both players agreed there
are more fans coming to
watch OHL games during the
NHL lockout.
"I think it's benefitted a lot
of places once people
realized there's more likely
not going to be a NHL season
this year," Doig said.
During an OHL game, Doig
and O'Reilly said, attendance
can range anywhere from
2,000 to 10,000 fans.
"It's pretty neat when you
play in London with 10,000
fans. It looks like an NHL
rink almost," O'Reilly said.
"It's a pretty neat atmosphere
and it's just.a lot of fun."
So far, in his first season in
the OHL, Doig has played 27
games for the Guelph Storm
and has gotten nine goals and
seven assists.
"Coining here 1 had a lot of
expectations of myself just
hoping for a chance to prove
that I could play in the
league," said Doig.
Submitted photo
Guelph Storm centre, Tyler Doig, of Seaforth, has played
27 games for the Guelph Storm and has gotten nine goals and
seven assists.
Seaforth member
of Mitchell Meteors
scores big at recent
regional tourament
By Jason Middleton
Expositor Staff
Seaforth native, Sarah
Johnston, helped lead her
team, the Mitchell Meteors,
to victory at a recent
Regional Silver Stick
championship tournament as
top goal scorer.
The Mitchell Scotia Bank
Bantam `B' girls hockey
team won the regional
qualifier recently in Saugeen
Shores by sweeping the
tournament with a
5-0 record.
Johnston, the team's
captain and the only Seaforth
member of the team, scored
two goals in the semi-finals,
one in the finals and at least
one in the round robin
section of the recent
tournament.
"I think we really did
good," Johnston said. "We
tried our best."
For four years Johnston has
been playing hockey and she
eventually hopes to a get
scholarship to play university
hockey.
The Mitchell team will
head to an International
Silver Stick Tournament in
Trenton in February.
HURON EAST FIRE DEPT.
SEAFORTH STATION
WOULD
LIKE TO THANK
KEN ANDERSON
SALVAGE
FOR HIS DONATION OF
VEHICLES TO HELP MAKE
THE EXTRICATION COURSE
SUCCESSFUL
Without Ken's assistance, this course
would'not have been possible
In his second season of
OHL play, O'Reilly, who
plays for the Windsor
Spitfires, has strapped his
skates on for 31 games and
has scored 11 goals and has
gotten 23 assists.
"It's
going really
well. We're
number one
in our
division,
I'm one of
the top
scorers and
I'm getting
lots of ice
time," said O'Reilly, who was
the top rookie point -getter for
the Spitfires last year.
Although Doig did play in
the OHL for a few games last
year, he says that playing in
the league took a little while
to get used to.
"It's obviously a few steps
above Junior B," he said. "It
took a while to get used. to
the pace, the size of the guys
and how fast the games are.
Once you get used to it you
can get pretty comfortable
with the play."
"It's great hockey,"
O'Reilly, a former player on
the Junior B St. Marys
Lincolns, said. "It's just a
great experience."
As for his future, O'Reilly
said that he would like to
"improve every year and see
where it takes me."
"It's always been my dream
to play pro hockey
somewhere and if not the
NHL, then in Europe," said
O'Reilly. "Definitely the
NHL is my top goal."
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