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Week 2 Results - Investors Group Hockey Alberta Provincials

Hockey Alberta is pleased to announce the championship results from the Investors Group Hockey Alberta Provincials from March 15 - March 18, 2012.

The following Investors Group Hockey Alberta Provincial Tournaments will take place from March 22-25, 2012: Senior AA Female, Midget AAA Minor, Midget A Female, all Bantam male categories, Peewee B Female, and all Atom male categories. Provincial Championship playdown series will begin for Bantam AAA Female, Midget AAA, Midget AAA Female and continue for Senior AAA and Bantam AAA.

2012 INVESTORS GROUP HOCKEY ALBERTA PROVINCIAL TOURNAMENTS

SENIOR A FEMALE – CALGARY (SAWHA)

Gold Medal Game:
Grande Prairie Panthers (3) vs. Edmonton Rejects (2) OT

MIDGET AA MAJOR – WAINWRIGHT

Gold Medal Game:
Calgary Rangers (6) vs. Peace River Royals (5)

MIDGET AA MINOR – SLAVE LAKE

Gold Medal Game:
Barrhead Steelers (1) vs. Okotoks Oilers (4)

MIDGET A – ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE

Gold Medal Game:
Beaumont Braves (6) vs. Hanna Colts (3)

MIDGET B – LAC LA BICHE

Gold Medal Game:
Drayton Valley Sabre Swabbing (1) vs. Ponoka Midgets (6)

MIDGET B FEMALE - BROOKS

Gold Medal Game:
Lethbridge Scotiabank Barracudas (2) vs. Vermillion Tigers (9)

MIDGET C – MANNING

Gold Medal Game:
Viking (4) vs. Rimbey (8)

MIDGET D – MILLET

Gold Medal Game:
Westlock Sabres (2) vs. Irma Aces (5)

BANTAM A FEMALE – SHERWOOD PARK

Gold Medal Game:
St. Albert Silvertips (2) vs. Fort Saskatchewan Fury (4)

BANTAM B FEMALE – STETTLER

Gold Medal Game:
Onoway Xcelerators (2) vs. Olds Renegades (4)

PEEWEE AA MAJOR – LETHBRIDGE

Gold Medal Game:
Edmonton Oil Kings (4) vs. St Albert Sabres (0)

PEEWEE AA MINOR – GRANDE PRAIRIE

Gold Medal Game:
Fort Saskatchewan Rangers (0) vs. Camrose Vikings (9)

PEEWEE A FEMALE - CALGARY

Gold Medal Game:
Sherwood Park Fusion (3) vs. Airdrie Lightning (1)

PEEWEE A – LLOYDMINSTER

Gold Medal Game:
Whitecourt Brutes (3) vs. Wainwright Global Fusion Bisons (2)

PEEWEE B – BARRHEAD

Gold Medal Game:
Drayton Valley (6) vs. Okotoks (4)

PEEWEE C – CONSORT

Gold Medal Game:
Marwayne Sled Dogs (6) vs. Thunderstars Peewee (2)

PEEWEE D – HIGH COUNTRY

Gold Medal Game:
Mayerthorpe Mustangs (4) vs. Crowsnest Pass Thunder (9)

ATOM FEMALE – FORT MCMURRAY

Gold Medal Game:
Fort Saskatchewan (1) vs. Sherwood Park (5)

2012 INVESTORS GROUP HOCKEY ALBERTA PROVINCIAL TOURNAMENTS

SENIOR AAA – HORSE LAKE CHIEFS vs. STONY PLAIN EAGLES

9-Mar Fri Horse Lake (0) @ Stony Plain (1) (Forfeited by Horse Lake)
10-Mar Sat Horse Lake (3) @ Stony Plain (4) OT
16-Mar Fri Stony Plain (6) @ Horse Lake (7)
17-Mar Sat Stony Plain (7) @ Horse Lake (5)
If Necessary
23-Mar Fri Horse Lake @ Stony Plain 8:30 P.M
25-Mar Sun Stony Plain @ Horse Lake 3:00 P.M
31-Mar Sat Horse Lake @ Stony Plain 7:30 P.M

Stony Plain leads series 3-1

McKenzie Cup – Best of 5 – April 5-9, 2012 (All games in B.C.)

Allan Cup – April 16-21, 2012 – Lloydminster, Saskatchewan

BANTAM AAA (AMBHL) – CALGARY BISONS VS. EDMONTON SSAC

17-Mar Sat Calgary Bisons (4) @ Edmonton SSAC (5)
18-Mar Sun Calgary Bisons (2) @ Edmonton SSAC (8)
24-Mar Sat Edmonton SSAC @ Calgary Bisons 6:45 P.M.
If Necessary
25-Mar Edmonton SSAC @ Calgary Bisons 1:45 P.M.
28-Mar Calgary Bisons @ Edmonton SSAC TBA

Western Canadian Bantam Championship – April 5-8, 2012 – Stony Plain, Alberta

Throughout the months of March and April, more than 6000 amateur male and female hockey players, ranging in age divisions from Atom to Senior, will take part in the 2012 Investors Group Hockey Alberta Provincials. Over 400 teams playing in 42 provincial championship tournaments and six provincial championship playdown series will hit the ice across the province to battle it out for their respective provincial titles.

Hockey Alberta is pleased to have Investors Group, Insurance Brokers Association of Alberta, Source for Sports and Elite Sportswear and Awards as official sponsors and suppliers to the provincial championships.

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Team Alberta North Male And Female Teams Win Gold At 2012 Arctic Winter Games

Team Alberta North Bantam Male and Team Alberta North Junior Female teams both captured gold medals at the 2012 Arctic Winter Games Sunday in Whitehorse, Yukon.

Gold Medal Game – Bantam Male
Team Alberta North (13) vs. Team Northwest Territories (6)

Gold Medal Game – Junior Female
Team Alberta North (5) vs. Team Alaska (2)

Team Yukon defeated Team Northwest Territories 2-1 for the gold medal in the midget male category. Team Alberta North did not enter a team in the midget male category this year.

The Arctic Winter Games are the world’s largest northern multi-sport and cultural event. The Games include the participation of teams from Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Alberta North, Nunavut, Greenland, Yamal, Nunavik, Quebec and Sapmi.

The Arctic Winter Games are a celebration of athletic competition, culture, friendship and cooperation between northern contingents. Athletic competition features sports that enjoy worldwide popularity alongside traditional Arctic Sports and Dene Games.

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AHHF Member, Dale Henwood Inducted To Alberta Sports Hall Of Fame

Dale Henwood
2012 Multisport Builder, Red Deer

Dale Henwood has devoted his life to sport development and excellence in Alberta, and to making sport in Canada better. Henwood was the very first Technical Director for Hockey Alberta and the first employee to open Hockey Alberta’s old office in the North of Red Deer. A university and Olympic hockey coach from 1984-88, his career switched to a sport administrative role in the mid 1980s, with the Alberta Hockey Association and then the Alberta Sport Council. In 1994, Dale became President of the Canadian Sport Centre in Calgary. Through his dedicated leadership, the CSCC has created a world class team of experts (coaches, athletes, sport scientists, medical and administrative support), ensuring that Canada’s top athletes training in Alberta have what they need to reach the international podium.

He was inducted into the Alberta Hockey Hall of Fame in 2008.