Squirtacular Tournament

Taking some pictures at the tournament

Liam is #17

Trading pins with some of the other teams at the tournament.  This was new to the boys, but they loved it.  The boy on the left came to this tournament from Arizona.  Liam is on right in red hat.

That's Luke on the bottom right trading pins in between games

Luke in net at one of our 7:00 AM games!

Finn got in one some pin trading action 

Luke doing some dry land training

Finn and our neighbor Kathleen on a warmer than average day right before we got nearly a foot of snow!!

Luke and Liam were in a hockey tournament with their Squirt B1 Gold team over the weekend.  It was a big tournament with around 60 high level squirt A and B teams.  There were teams from Arizona, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Chicago along with some local metro areas.  Squirt hockey teams are made up of kids between the ages of 9 and 11, mostly 4th and 5th graders.  This Squirtacular tournament is known to be a very competitive tournament and it definitely did not disappoint.

Luke and Liam's team managed to win their pool of games with 4 teams and into the quarterfinals which says a lot.  Out of around 32 B1 teams, they managed to make it as one of the final eight teams and then finished about 5th of the 8 teams.  Not bad...In our quarterfinal game that we lost, we played one of the teams that ended up in the championship so it was a tough game where we sadly lost by one goal at the very end.  Overall, the boys worked hard and we have some things to work on and improve upon, but it was a fun weekend.

On to our final tournament of the year in Duluth, MN.  Go Gold!!