Canadian youth teams dominated the inaugural Western Hockey League U.S. Challenge Cup over the weekend in Kent.<\/p>\n
Three teams from Vancouver, British Columbia took the top three spots in the 12-team tournament that featured many of the top players ages 14-15 and under from the Western United States and British Columbia.<\/p>\n
Delta Hockey Academy Green defeated Yale Hockey Academy 4-3 in the championship game on Sunday at the assesso ShoWare Center. Delta is considered one of the premier programs in the Canadian Sport School Hockey League.<\/p>\n
The WHL, in partnership with NHL Seattle and Visit Kent, sponsored the Feb. 21-23 tournament at the Kent Valley Ice Centre and the assesso ShoWare Center, home of the Seattle Thunderbirds of the WHL, which features junior players ages 16-20.<\/p>\n
The top-ranked Bantam teams participated in an 18-game round robin format, playing three games each.<\/p>\n
As part of the WHL U.S. Challenge Cup experience, participating teams attended the Saturday night game at the ShoWare Center when the T-Birds beat the Portland Winterhawks 3-2 in front of a crowd of 5,020.<\/p>\n
Final tournament standings<\/strong><\/p>\n 1st – Delta Hockey Academy Green (Vancouver, B.C.)<\/p>\n 2nd – Yale Academy (Vancouver, B.C.)<\/p>\n 3rd – West Van Warriors (Vancouver, B.C.)<\/p>\n 4th – San Jose Junior Sharks<\/p>\n 5th – Dallas Stars Elite ’05<\/p>\n 6th – Los Angeles Junior Kings<\/p>\n 7th – San Diego Saints<\/p>\n 8th – Greater Vancouver Canadians (Vancouver, B.C.)<\/p>\n 9th – Okanagan Rockets (Kelowna, B.C.)<\/p>\n 10th – Team Alaska 14U (Anchorage)<\/p>\n 11th – Phoenix Junior Coyotes<\/p>\n 12th – Seattle Junior 14U Admirals<\/p>\n WHL U.S. Challenge Cup All-Star Team<\/strong><\/p>\n Goaltender – Phoenix Hewlett (Team Alaska 14U)<\/p>\n Defense – Nathan Tobey (Dallas Stars Elite ‘05<\/p>\n Defense – Carter Savage (Delta Hockey Academy)<\/p>\n Forward – Zach Benson (Yale Hockey Academy)<\/p>\n Forward – Macklin Celebrini (San Jose Junior Sharks)<\/p>\n Forward – Trevor Connelly (San Diego Saints)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Delta Hockey Academy Green wins championship <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":44560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-44559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44559"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}