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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, January 23, 2014 | 24 HALTON TRANSMISSION 559 SPEERS RD., #UNIT 3 905-842-0725 www.haltontransmission.com Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports "Connected to your Community" Peewee red Avalanche wins Sabatino title The Avalanche blanked the Watershed LLP Warriors 3-0 Sunday in an all-Oakville peewee red final of the Minor Oaks Hockey Association's annual Frank Sabatino Memorial house league tournament at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex. Lucas Benjamin scored twice, Mark Uszkay added a single and Matthew Dusome provided shutout netminding for the Avalanche, which won all five of its games at the competition. The Avalanche got goals from Connor Salmon, Joe Kruse, Grayden Stauffer and Carlos Quintero in a 4-1 win over the Burlington Bulldogs in the semifinals. Other contributors to the Avalanche's success were Connor Smith, Matthew Ambrose, Jack Murray, Sawyer Dundas, Tommy Bourikas, Dylan Pettersen, Kevin Collins, Matthew Beattie and Tyler Janovecz. The Warriors reached the final with a 3-2 shootout win over another Oakville team, the St. Hilday's Eagles. Soren Zamuner scored the winner in the shootout for the Warriors after also scoring during regulation time. Kyle Duggan had the Warriors' other marker, with Noah Westwater and Peter Lee replying for the Eagles. Atom red The Oakville Ice Dogs were the other MOHA team to reach a championship game at the Sabatino tournament, falling 4-1 to the Cooksville Phantoms in the atom red final. Elias Najem tallied for the Ice Dogs, tying the game in the first period before Cooksville scored the final three goals of the contest. The Ice Dogs edged the Oakville Knights 3-2 in the semifinal round. Jacob Martins (two) and Jaiden Thiara scored for the Ice Dogs. Aidan MacCormack and Michael Bienhaus provided goals for the Knights. Cooksville needed a shootout to squeak by the Oakville Lightning in the other atom red semifinal. Peewee white Ottawa's Westend Swagful Unicorns defeated Waterloo Canadian Tire 2-1 in a shootout to win the peewee white division. Both Westend and Waterloo posted one-goal wins over Oakville teams in the semifinals. Westend overcame goals by the Oakville Titans' Joshua Gregoire and Spencer Oliphant to prevail 3-2 in a shootout. The Oakville Sharks led Waterloo 1-0 through two periods on the strength of an Evan Tran goal, but Waterloo rallied for two goals in the final period to win 2-1. Skills competitions Oakville players and teams combined to win 11 events in the tournament's skill competitions, including five in the atom red division. Oakville Gladiators' Shane Dormer (fastest shot) and Joshua Nesbitt (defence agility) joined Oakville Ice Dogs' Ryan Hayes (breakaway shooting) and Nolan Bourdeau (breakaway goaltending) as atom red individual champions. The Oakville Lightning won the team speed relay. In peewee white competition, the Oakville Snipers' Ryan Pope was top breakaway shooter and the Oakville Warriors were victorious in team relay. see Sabatino on p.25 The Oakville Avalanche peewee red house league hockey team poses with the championship trophy after winning its division at last weekend's Frank Sabatino Memorial Tournament in Oakville. The Avalanche defeated another Oakville team, the Watershed LLP Warriors, in the final, and the Oakville Ice Dogs reached the championship game in atom red play. The annual tournament raised $5,000 for the Oakville Hospital Foundation and Ian Anderson House. | photo submitted First goal adds to Lain's memorable NHL start by Jon Kuiperij Beaver Sports Editor `Goon In Sixty Seconds,' a Vancouver Province headline read about Kellan Lain's NHL debut. Actually, it was much quicker than that. Lain was ejected just two seconds into his first game with the Vancouver Canucks Saturday night, following a gameopening line brawl with the Calgary Flames, to set a record for fastest fight to start an NHL career. Tuesday in Edmonton, the Oakville Blades product showed he can do more than fight. Lain scored his first career NHL goal at the 5:14 mark of the first period, bouncing a rebound off Oilers goaltender Ben Scrivens and into the net. It was just the 6-foot-6, 220-pound centre's third shift of his NHL career -- and the second that wasn't immediately ended by a scrap. Lain went on to record five minutes and 14 seconds of ice time in the Canucks' 2-1 win over the Oilers. "You always dream of playing in the NHL, but you also dream of scoring that first goal," Lain told reporters after Tuesday's game. "When you get it, it's a pretty special moment. I just drove the net and the puck just popped out to me." Lain's teammates were happy to see the 24-year-old T.A. Blakelock grad achieve the milestone three days after his brief debut, which parents Jim and Sheila and brother Brett had flown out to the west coast to see. "In three shifts, he fought a heavyweight and scored a goal," defenceman Kevin Bieksa, a product of the Burlington Cougars, told the Province. "You can't have a better start than that." "I don't know if you can picture more memorable first two games in the NHL than that," goaltender Roberto Luongo told the Province. 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