Black and Gold Recap

A very competitive training camp for the CanElson Drilling Estevan Bruins wrapped up on Sunday with the Black and Gold scrimmage as both teams competing for the Gerry Aspen Cup.

Wyatt Trumbley who spent the majority of last season with Campbell River Storm of the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey opened the scoring to give Team Gold a 1-0.

1995 forward Adam Oscevski who spent last season with Prince Albert Mintos managed to deflect Scott Morrison's shot into the back of the mesh to score for Team Black to tie the game at 1-1.

Before the end of the first period team Black would grab the lead as Keegan Allison a 1995 forward who played with the Saskatoon Blazers last year scored and after 20 minutes of play it was Team Black leading 2-1

One of the big highlights of the game saw Matt Brykaliuk use a pretty nice toe drag to set himself with a great scoring opportunity but was robbed by an outstanding save by Ryland Pashovitz.

Hudson Morrison opened up the scoring in the second period deflected a shot from Brett Dumaine and the lead would be extended to 3-1 for Team Black.

Team Gold took advantage of a Team Black turnover as Tyler Paslawski set up Ben Williams who scored to give cut the deficit to 3-2.

Before the end of the period Dumaine scored for Black as they lead 4-2 after 40 minutes.

In the third period Allison added a pair of goals for Team Black to put the game away and picked up himself a hat trick. Wyatt Garagan also scored for Gold as the final ended up being 6-3 in favor for Team Black.

Even though the scrimmage doesn't matter in the standings, the Captain of Team Black Cole Olson said it was a great honor to win the Gerry Aspen Cup since Aspen has spent countless hours over the years helping out with the Bruins. (Prime example is the Bruins Dressing Room which Aspen built. HE spent over 1000 hrs last summer working on it.)

Head Coach Keith Cassidy felt it was a great camp for the Bruins, he said the coaching and scouting staff were going to have some tough decisions to make over the next couple of days. Cassidy said the plan was to have the roster around 30 players for Wednesday's preseason game against Weyburn.

Cassidy noted many of the veterans had strong camps like Cole Olson, Calder Neufeld, and Connor Milligan. He also pointed out the play of the rookies like Ben Williams, Hudson Morrison and goalies Travis Pelletier and Brett Lemchuk during camp.

On Monday the Bruins will take their rookies and the prospects who were in camp to the rookie game in Wilcox against the Notre Dame. After the game most of the AAA Midget players will be sent back to their team.

The Bruins will open up the preseason on Wednesday against Weyburn at Spectra Place.

After the Black and Gold game Cassidy answered some questions about camp.

The Captain for Team Black Cole Olson talks about winning the Gerry Aspen Cup.