STANDING TALL California Love
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE GREATER Toronto HOCKEY LEAGUE & ITS MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS WINTER 2016 - 17 STANDING CALIFORNIA TALL LOVE Markus Augusto’s From the G inspiring journey to the Gold Coast Page 24 Page 34 @ GTHLHOCKEY 1 File Name: SPONS-AD-GTHL-BreakoutMag-1016 Publication: GTHL Breakout Magazine Trim: 16.5” x 10.5” Material Deadline: November 18, 2016 Creative & Production Services Bleed: 0.5" Safety: 0.5” Mech Res: 300dpi 100 Yonge Street, 10th Floor Insertion Dates: December 15, 2016 Toronto, ON M5C 2W1 Colours: CMYK The 5th Season is when kids dream big. From the plains of Saskatchewan to the suburbs of Ontario, kids dream legendary hockey moments. That’s why we’re proud to support over 8,000 community hockey teams from coast to coast. Because even if they don’t score the game-winning goal, every kid should know what being a hockey hero feels like. #The5thSeason www.scotiabank.com/the5thseason ®* Registered trademarks of The Bank of Nova Scotia. NHL and the NHL Shield are registered trademarks of the National Hockey League. © NHL 2016. All Rights Reserved. 2 GTHLCANADA.COM SPONS-AD-GTHL-BreakoutMag-1016.indd 1 2016-10-28 9:43 AM File Name: SPONS-AD-GTHL-BreakoutMag-1016 Publication: GTHL Breakout Magazine Trim: 16.5” x 10.5” Material Deadline: November 18, 2016 Creative & Production Services Bleed: 0.5" Safety: 0.5” Mech Res: 300dpi 100 Yonge Street, 10th Floor Insertion Dates: December 15, 2016 Toronto, ON M5C 2W1 Colours: CMYK The 5th Season is when kids dream big. From the plains of Saskatchewan to the suburbs of Ontario, kids dream legendary hockey moments. That’s why we’re proud to support over 8,000 community hockey teams from coast to coast. Because even if they don’t score the game-winning goal, every kid should know what being a hockey hero feels like. #The5thSeason www.scotiabank.com/the5thseason ®* Registered trademarks of The Bank of Nova Scotia. NHL and the NHL Shield are registered trademarks of the National Hockey League. © NHL 2016. All Rights Reserved. @ GTHLHOCKEY 3 SPONS-AD-GTHL-BreakoutMag-1016.indd 1 2016-10-28 9:43 AM www.prohockeylife.com WINTER 2016-17 THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE GREATER TORONto HOCKEY LEAGUE & ITS MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS GTHLHOCKEY @GTHLHOCKEY GTHLHOCKEY STARTING LINE-UP 16 12 FIRST WORDS Reflections on the most important parts of our game. 14 GOLDEN QUESTIONS Team Canada head coach Dominique Ducharme on the challenge of building a winning team. 16 THIRSTY? The importance of hydration in sport, with tips from our friends at Recharge With Milk. 18 HOLIDAY HOCKEY TIP Become a stick-handling master with help from HockeyShot.com. 20 #IPlayInTheG A campaign to capture the stories behind the games. 20 22 22 REMEMBERING TYLER CRAGG THE JR. Honouring the life of an inspiring CANADIENS mentor who left us too soon. ARE CONTINUING BY BRENDON CROSSMAN THE LEGACY 23 ONE IN A BILLION OF THEIR LATE One woman’s story of learning and COACH TYLER growing the game half a world away. CRAGG BY CHRIS ACKROYD 24 STANDING TALL 23 24 26 Be inspired by a remarkable teenager who refuses to let cancer get in the way of his dreams. BY ADRIENNE MIDDLEBROOK 28 A PLAN IN MOTION A look at the work being done to prevent and treat concussions in the GTHL. BY ROBYN COX & STEPHANIE MCFARLAND 30 THE START OF SOMETHING BIG Alumni from the GTHL Top Prospects Game Powered by Under Armour have blazed an impressive trail. 32 THIS IS 40 Meadowvale Minor Hockey Association, 40 years later. 34 CALIFORNIA LOVE 36 100 YEARS OF HISTORY 38 FROM THE STANDS Andrew Cogliano, Mike Futa and Celebrating a century of Maple The ups and downs of minor COVER: #IPlayintheG, Photos by Erin Riley Steve Spott on the California Leafs hockey. hockey, from a parent’s perspective. hockey scene. BY JOSHUA DAWSON BY MICK KERN @ GTHLHOCKEY 5 6 GTHLCANADA.COM SNAPSHOTS DEVIL OF A TIME GTHL Puck Drop Weekend celebrated the start of the hockey season for a sixth straight year, with more than 200 GTHL teams taking the ice over two days at York University. Photo by ERIN RILEY Facebook.com/GTHLHockey has more pics from Puck Drop Weekend @ GTHLHOCKEY 7 8 GTHLCANADA.COM SNAPSHOTS LEADING THE CHARGE Goaltender Nolan Walsh leads the Minor Atom AA Toros into action at Centennial Park Arena in Etobicoke on Oct. 20. The Toros won the game 7-3 to improve to 6-0-1 on the season. Photo by ERIN RILEY Be at the top of your game, every game. Flip to page 16 for Recharge with Milk hydration tips. @ GTHLHOCKEY 9 10 GTHLCANADA.COM SNAPSHOTS FILL THE NET! Members of the Faustina Fury collected donations for the Daily Bread Food Bank during the PlayStation Platinum Cup in late November. Photo by ERIN RILEY Find more PlayStation Platinum Cup coverage beginning on page 24. @ GTHLHOCKEY 11 FIRST WORDS EDitor BRENDON CROSSMAN WintEr | dECEMbEr 2016 Editor Brendon Crossman [email protected] PublishEr REMEMBER THE MOMENTS Greater Toronto Hockey League The details sometimes wash away, but the feelings last a lifetime dEsign & layout PIX hen I was in university, one of my which chronicles the work being done to prevent and assignments was to write weekly treat concussions in the GTHL. As you’ll see, incredibly PhotograPhy Erin Riley reflection journals during a practicum intelligent people are doing great things to protect our CHL Images placement. This task was always at the precious memory banks. Hockey Hall of Fame bottom of my to-do list and, in all honesty, There’s a quote by Dr. Maya Angelou, an American Matthew Manor Wthe entries were loosely based on reality by the time author and civil rights activist, which came to mind Terry Wilson I got around to them. Not because I was creating when writing this piece: “I’ve learned that people will Contributing WritErs fiction, but because I simply couldn’t recount whether forget what you said, people will forget what you did, Chris Ackroyd Mick Kern Robyn Cox Stephanie McFarland my lesson plan had been delivered on a Monday or a but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Brendon Crossman Adrienne Middlebrook Tuesday, or whether my group had worked as a It’s true, isn’t it? Find one person who could recount Joshua Dawson Erin Riley cohesive unit throughout a term project. It was a coach’s pre-game speech verbatim. (The kid who advErtising salEs simply a case of memories blurring together, of one absolutely nails the Herb Brooks speech from Dave Lowes day running into the next. Miracle doesn’t count.) Tell me all the drills you 57 Carl Hall Road, Toronto, ON Which is exactly why we should reflect – because learned in practice or your stat line from each hockey 416-636-6845 we forget. Call it misremembering if you prefer, but season. Without reference to recordings or books, [email protected] we do it all the time, save for those few with it’s downright impossible to be accurate all the time. GTHL ExECutivE oFFiCErs impeccable recall. We forget scores of hockey games. But how did that coach make you feel? Inspired? Don West President John Gardner Immediate Past President We forget an elbow pad in the basement. We forget to Excited? Angry? Ken Smith First Vice President cover the player in front of the net. What about the practices and games? Did the Gordon McDonald Second Vice President The articles within these pages are meant to stops and starts make your legs burn? Did the Geoff Shaw Third Vice President preserve the facts and help us remember, to tell horseshoe drill get boring? Is the thought of a W. John Trimble Treasurer stories that don’t show up on game sheets. In thrilling victory giving you chills? GTHL board oF dirECtors Remembering Tyler Cragg you’ll read about an It’s not all about what happens on the ice, as Andrew Kidd Chick Evans inspiring mentor who left us too soon; Standing Tall you’ll see in This is 40. In fact, our parent contributor David Leathem tells the story of a remarkable teenager refusing to let Mick Kern might have put it best: It All Matters. Mike Lewicki cancer get in the way of his dreams; and 100 Years of Every little thing about our great game is worth Doug Thomson Steve Allmen History takes you back in time with the Toronto remembering, so take the time this season to do just that. Phil Wolfenden Maple Leafs. Happy Hockey Holidays, folks, and thanks for Wally Turner And how could we forget about A Plan in Motion, reading! Brian Webster President, MHL Bob Svanefelt President, NYHL GTHL oFFiCE staFF Scott Oakman Executive Director Managers Peter Kourtis Hockey Operations Dave Lowes Corporate Partnerships and Communications Josh Hamilton Membership Services and Events Dinesh Virmani Accounting Coordinators Olivia Costantino Registration Michelle Fata Officiating Development, Insurance and Risk Management SLOW it doWn Chris Whiting League Officiating the hockey season can seem like a blur at times, which is why we’re Jennifer Crawford League Operations and Events trying to slow things down and tell your stories off the ice. Flip to page 20 Brian Kyla-Lassila Coach and Player for more on the #iPlayintheg initiative. Development Adrienne Middlebrook Marketing and Communications Anthony Munro League Schedule THANKS Patty Ciddio Administration to OUR Mary Mendes Customer Service SUpporterS grEATEr TORONTO hoCKEy lEAGUE 57 Carl Hall Road Toronto, ON M3K 2B6 Phone: 416-636-6845 Fax: 416-636-2035 Email: [email protected] 12 GTHLCANADA.COM @ GTHLHOCKEY 13 WORLD JUNIORS Team Canada captured a gold medal in 2015 when the tournament was last hosted in Canada.