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BY MICHAEL HAYAKAWA mhayakawa®yrmg.com Mam Stevens has been going to the hockey rink these days donning his summer attire. That's a good sign for the former Stouffville Spirit forward. Especially since Stevens and the rest of his Guelph Storm teammates still_haye 59mg games to; play. To be skating into this Victoria Day long weekend and a bit beyond signifies the Storm have made it to the prestigious MasterCard Memo- rial Cup championships in London. The Storm earned that honour after skating off with the Ontario Hockey League championship by defeating the North Bay Battalion in their best-of-seven finale in five games culminating with a 4-3 vic- tory in Guelph Friday. time you get to the rink wearing flip-flops you know that you’ve had a long year and that's what every player strives for.” Compiling two goals and eight assists in 43 regular season games. the Storm's fifth-round pick in the 2011 draft logged the majority of his ice time on the club’s fourth line. “It's pletty sun‘eal; it's an amazing fgeling,” said the 18-yea1j-old. "Any That situation was something he fully anticipated and accepted after joining a club that was gear- MnnSmnwimshtedfordreSmuflvflkSpiritinzolz-liisatduMano- rialOImenndonthisMwidnheOlflzdnmpionGudphStorm Spirit grad takes flips-flops to Memorial Cup “With the team that we had I just tried to go out and play the best that 1 can when given the oppommity," he said. ini for a run at the OHL title and su sequent trip to the national championships. Along with adjusting to the game on the ice. where he cited there's a higher skill level, Stevens was quick to note he had to make some changes away from therinkinterms of scheduling his day with sleep. school and practices. Conceding there was an adjust- ment period after coming fmm Stout'fville late last year in which he was a go~to player and had four goals and seven assists in 21 games with the Spirit. Stevens was satisfied with the progress he's made this season. “The bigikey is in understanding what you have to do.” he said. “It took me a couple of months to get ‘Any time you get to the rink wearing flip-flops you know that you’ve had a long year and that's what every player strives for.’ TERRY WILSON I OHI. IMAGES A nephew of Los Angeles Kings’ assistant coach John Stevens. Marc acknowledged he's feeling some butterflies in anticipation of mak- ing his debut in the Memorial Cup which will begin when they play the Quebec Major lunior Hockey League champions tomorrow at 7 pm. into that ngovg.” At the same time though, he's TransCanada is proposing to construct new natural gas pipeline facilities primarily along our existing pipeline corridor between the City of Markham and the community of Iroquois located in the Township of South Dundas. if you have questions about the Eastern Mainline Project. come to the open house nearest you between 4 and 8 pm. and meet with key experts from TransCanada's Eastern Mainline Project team. Tuesday, May 27 Markham Village Community Centre 6041 Hwy 7 Markham, Ont. Wednesday, May 28 Newcastle Community Hall 20 King Ave. W. Newcastle. Ont. Thursday, May 29 Brooklin Community Centre 45 Cassels Rd. Brooklin, Ont. easternmainlinexom Tuesday, June 3 Wednesday, June 11 Thursday, June 19 Port Hope Lions Club Lou Jeffnes Recreation Centre Days Inn and Conterence Centve (Salon 8) 29 Tnomas St. ' 600 King St. E. 33 Benson St. Port Hope. Ont. Gananoque, Ont. Kingston, Ont. 'Due to the upcommg provincial QIECUOU the Brockvdle Open House has been moved from Thursday, June 12 to Monday, June 16th TransCanada is a Canadian company with over 60 years of experience building pipelines and power infrastrunure safely and reliably quick to acknowledge it's not every day when this opportunity arises and he hopes his teammates can make the most of it. After all. it was their objective when‘ the season began. "It's such a great team that we have and we're excited to get things going in London." he said. “It was our intention from the start of the year to get to the Memorial Cup. Wednesday, June 4 Batawa Community Centle 818 Plant St. Quinta West. Ont. Tuesday, June 10 Sauth Edwatdsburgh Community Centre 24 Sutton Dr. Johnstown. Ont. Thursday, June 5 Grafton Community Centre 718 Station Rd. Grafton. Ont. Tuesday, June 17 Township of Tyendinaga Recreation Hall 363 McFarlane Rd. Tyendinaga, Ont. Wednesday, June 18 Strathcona Paper Centre (Lafarge Banquet Hall) 16 McPherson Dr. Greater Napanee. Ont. Monday, June 16' Blockville Convention Centre 7829 Kent Blvd. Brockville. Ont. We set our goals as high as posâ€" sible and to beat North Bay in five games (in the OHL final) was spe- cial and to know we’re going to the Memorial Cup that's pretty close to home. “We know there's four unbe- lievable teams that will be in the Memorial Cup and anything can happen. But we've prepared all year for this." TransCanada In business to deliver