The Vancouver Island Seals U18 female AAA team were victorious during their first appearance for Hockey Day in PA on Oct. 17 at the Alberni Valley Multiplex. The Seals were the second team featured during the annual celebration of minor hockey in the Alberni Valley.<\/p>\n
The Seals faced the Thompson-Okanagan Lakers, winning 2-1. No goals were scored until the third period of the game \u2013 and all three of them were scored at the final minute mark. <\/p>\n
The Seals had their first crack at the scoreboard with Mara Bate at the 19:04 mark, with assists from Lynden Dragani and Carys Robertshaw. The Seals then had their winning goal with Maybel McDonald at the 19:43 mark with an assist from Chantelle Hendricks.<\/p>\n
The Lakers scored at the 20-minute mark with Madison Millership. She had assists from Sophie Collins and Kaia Fletcher.<\/p>\n
The Seals and Lakers faced off again on Sunday, Oct. 18 at the Multiplex, and this time the Lakers prevailed 3-2 in a shootout.<\/p>\n
The first game of Hockey Day in PA featured the Port Alberni Bombers of the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League facing off against regional rivals the Nanaimo Buccaneers. After falling behind early, the Bombers mounted a late comeback but fell short in dropping a 6-3 decision to the Bucs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Island Seals U18 female AAA team were victorious during their first appearance for Hockey Day in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-953102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}