The Navy Vets enter holiday break in 1st place !!

The Vets finished the pre-holiday break part of the season with 2 wins on the weekend …

FRI:
Tavio Kauzlaric scored what proved to be the winning goal 7 minutes into the 2nd period of his debut game and chipped in an assist as the Vets beat Dorchester 6-1 at Southwood on Friday night …
Cooper Vickerman had 2 goals, Owen Ireton had 1 goal & 3 assists, while Connor Stanley and Matthew Meyer had the other Vets goals …
Kobe Nadalin made 33 saves to record his 7th win of the season …

SAT:
The Navy Vets got 2 goals from Owen Ireton and 37 saves from Kobe Nadalin in a big 4-1 win in Wellesley on Saturday night …
Ireton also had 1 assist while Liam Gorman and Charley Barnes had the other goals … Barnes added an assist as well by setting up Ireton’s 2nd goal … Michael Lee had 2 assists …
Nadalin had a terrific weekend getting his 2nd win in 2 nights and his 8th win of the season …

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HOLIDAY BREAK NOTES:
The Vets have won 4 straight games and have 20 wins in the season … with a 6-point lead in 1st place over the Wellesley Applejacks who still have a game in hand …
the Vets have 12 wins, 1 loss, 1 OTL, & 1 SOL in the last 15 games since Adam Wallace took over as head coach …
the Vets have the top offence with 122 GF and top defence with only 71 GA in the division … they also have the top special teams with a 26.5 PP % and a 91.4 % PK % …
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The Navy Vets are also ranked #4 in the Dec 24 pre-holiday break PJHL Power Rankings !!
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Cooper Vickerman leads a 3-way tie on top of the division scoring race with 26 goals & 27 assists for 53 points … he is joined by Yann Raskin of Tavistock and Vets’ teammate Ireton who both have 53 points on 25 goals & 28 assists … those 3 are also #9, #10 & #11 in the PJHL Scoring Leaders …
Charley Barnes is in 5th place in scoring and leads all defencemen with 38 points on 16 goals & 22 assists … he is #2 among PJHL Top Scoring Defencemen …
Tyler Bouck leads the division with 12 wins and 3 shutouts while rookie teammate Kobe Nadalin leads all goalies with a 1.70 GAA and .955 SV% … Nadalin is also #1 among PJHL Goalie Leaders in SV% and #4 in GAA …
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Several Vets achieved milestones during the first part of the season:
200 career games – Nolan Brett 200 career games …
100 career games – Connor Stanley, Brodie Kearns, and Tyler Bouck …
60 career wins – Tyler Bouck …
Franchise record – Tyler Bouck 14 career goalie assists …
1st junior game – Will McGregor, Colin Shaw, Ethan Markle, Kobe Nadalin, Josh Cook, Parker Finbow, Nyle Diefenbacher, and Ashton Yallup …
1st junior point – Austin Doolittle, Kingston McPherson, Will McGregor, Colin Shaw, Rashaad Eichenberg, and Ethan Markle …
1st junior goal – Austin Doolittle, Kingston McPherson, Will McGregor, Colin Shaw, Rashaad Eichenberg, Ethan Markle, and Kyle Arthur …
1st junior win – Kobe Nadalin
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Hattricks – Owen Ireton, Dailen Fousek, and Cooper Vickerman …
4 goal game – Charley Barnes …
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PJHL Prospects Game participants – Kobe Nadalin and Kingston McPherson …
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PJHL Doherty Division Player of the Month – Cooper Vickerman (Sep) …

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UPCOMING GAMES:
the Vets will travel down the highway to Norwich on Jan.03 for the 6th game of this season’s “Battle of Hwy#59” to begin the last portion of the season heading towards the playoffs … the Vets lead the series with 3 wins 1 loss and 1 OTL …

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