BRIGHTON – The Ed Burns Coffee Pot Tournament committee pulled out all of the stops this 12 months to assist hype up its third annual battle for public-school workforce supremacy.
In its two division championships on Super Bowl Sunday at Warrior Ice Arena, groups lived as much as that hype.
Sixth-seeded Marshfield kicked off the day with a grasp showcase of protection and goaltending, in addition to star performances from Teddy Devoe (4 targets) and Cam McGettrick (objective, 4 assists), to win the Peter Doherty division title over No. 8 Franklin, 6-1. The championship was the Rams’ second within the match’s three years, and Devoe took residence the Doherty MVP award.
Their third-period eruption set the stage for a barn-burner to comply with within the Walter Brinn title recreation, which noticed No. 6 Norwood ship a comeback, 2-1 win over No. 4 Belmont in double-overtime. Anthony Amato was nails with 36 saves, conserving the Mustangs in it lengthy sufficient to assist ship the championship of their first 12 months taking part in within the match. Andrew Gillis’ game-winner helped him safe Brinn MVP honors.
In all, it was a becoming conclusion to a different nice match.
“Just to be in this game twice in three years is pretty special, and then to win it is even more special,” stated Marshfield head coach Dan Connolly. “You got some of the top teams in the state, never mind within the public schools.”
“Big game like this was like a state tournament game,” added Norwood head coach Chuck Allen. “It gets you ready for the state tournament. … Flip a coin and see who’s going to win. It’s great for us to come in and win it.”
The tunnel resulting in the locker rooms after the Doherty championship echoed with McGettrick repeatedly yelling, “Two times,” reflecting the power that comes with the Rams’ second crown in three seasons.
Marshfield used targets from Michael Bekerian and Devoe to construct a two-score lead within the second interval, just for Dan Daley’s objective two minutes later to chop the deficit in half. The Rams’ third of 4 penalties gave the Panthers a bonus to attempt to tie issues up heading into the third, too.
But McGettrick, who assisted the sport’s first objective, stole the puck at his personal blue line throughout the penalty kill and skated previous everybody the remainder of the way in which for a essential shorthanded objective simply over one minute into the third. He then assisted on Devoe’s second objective 30 seconds later, Devoe’s hat-trick objective with 8:43 left, and once more on Devoe’s fourth objective to place the sport away.
“It’s amazing,” McGettrick stated. “I thought that playing these good teams made us come together and actually play good together. We’ve been playing very individual lately, and I thought it brought us (together) as a team.”
Kevin Murphy was named most excellent goalie, selecting up 14 saves. The protection in entrance of him was stellar as properly, disrupting a lot exercise on the senior regardless of moments of prolonged stress from the Panthers.
“We know that (Franklin) first line is very good,” Bekerian stated. “(Murphy) always says it, ‘We’re on a boat and we’re rowing, we’re all working for each other.’ … We work together as a unit.”
“We went from (Murphy) on out,” Connolly added. “I mean Murph played a great game in net, but the defensemen played great blocking shots.”
Having your second line mix for 5 targets all the time helps, too.
The second recreation was a real battle between locked in goaltenders, as each Belmont’s Ethan Bauer (29 saves) and Amato have been in competition for many excellent goalie recognition. The Marauders generated extra harmful seems offensively by a lot of the first three durations, although, and it mirrored in a 1-0 lead – on Leo Packard’s objective – heading into the ultimate 5:30 of play.
But minutes after Allen took a wayward puck off his face to bleed profusely on the bench, Norwood rallied in entrance of him.
Sam Lally scored the game-tying objective with 5:14 left, ending off a go on the left circle. Offense appeared to open up in response with groups buying and selling rushes by the tip of regulation. Bauer and Amato stood tall.
Amato got here by even larger in 3-on-3 double-overtime, stoning six high-quality seems to maintain Belmont from hoisting the trophy.
“I think we would’ve lost that game without (Amato),” Lally stated.
Then, with 4:14 to go, Lally’s shot off Bauer bounced proper to Gillis for the game-winner.
“I was gassed, and I just brought the puck into the zone,” Lally stated. “I just took a shot on net and Gilly got the tap in there. … It was a great feeling, one of the best. That’s what we play for, overtime goals like that.”
Pulling out the win was significant on a number of fronts for Norwood, which entered the match feeling slighted it ranked 14th general regardless of a stellar report. Not solely did they present they stack up with good groups from well-respected leagues, but additionally gutted out a win the evening after shedding in extra time to Westwood.
“Our goal was to win this, that’s one of our goals and we did it,” Allen stated. “We hung in there, I give a lot of credit to my senior leadership. And the kids never quit.”
“We didn’t get the highest rankings this tournament, we knew were better than where we (were placed) and we showed it,” Lally added. “We were coming off a bad loss last night and we just put it all out there tonight. … It feels awesome.”
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