Team West Drops Final Game in Preliminary Round

Sweden 5, Canada West 3  Zeb Forsfjäll scored on the power play and added a shorthanded goal for Sweden. Aiden Fink (Calgary, Alta./Brooks, AJHL) had a goal and an assist for Canada West. Otto Stenberg had a goal and an assist for Sweden. Conyr Hellyr (Okotoks, Alta./Okotoks, AJHL) and Matteo Giampa (Virgil, Ont./Bonnyville, AJHL) also scored for Canada West. […]

Canada West Shuts Out Latvia at 2022 WJAC

Day Four Recap from the 2022 World Junior A Challenge Photo credit: Robert Lefebvre / Hockey Canada Images Canada West 10, Latvia 0  Ty Daneault (Red Deer, Alta./Drumheller, AJHL) tied a tournament record with four goals, including two in 14 seconds, and added an assist for Canada West. Aiden Fink (Calgary, Alta./Brooks, AJHL) had two goals and […]

Benincasa, Hennessey and Moxham Named AJHL Weekly Award Winners

The Pizza 73 AJHL Player of the Week is Spruce Grove Saints Captain Luigi Benincasa.  The Edmonton, AB forward recorded four points, earned two Viterra AJHL Star of the Game awards and scored a game winning goal during three games played. Benincasa (2002) and the Saints opened the week on December 6th with a 4-3 […]

Team Canada West Doubles Team East 6-3

Day Two Recap from the 2022 World Junior A Challenge Photo credit: Hockey Canada Images Latvia 3, Sweden 2 (OT) Toms Mots scored his second goal of the game 2:17 into overtime to secure the win for Latvia. Otto Stenberg and Elliot Ståhlberg provided the goals for Sweden. Aksels Ozols made 35 saves for the win. Canada West 6, […]

Canada West Takes Game One Over USA 5-3

Day One Recap from the 2022 World Junior A Challenge Photo credit: Hockey Canada Images Canada East 3, Latvia 1 Trent Crane (Morden, Man./Summerside, MHL), Joseph Ianniello (Vaughan, Ont./Navan, CCHL) and Sawyer Prokopetz (Wainfleet, Ont./Markham, OJHL) scored for Canada East. Rauls Ozollapa provided the scoring for Latvia. Ethan Morrow (Kingston, Ont./Wellington, OJHL) made 24 saves for the win. Canada West 5, United States 3 Captain Liam […]

Barker, MacFarlane and Beaudoin Earn AJHL Weekly Awards

Calgary Canucks captain Justin Barker is the Pizza 73 AJHL Player of the Week and teammate Jordan MacFarlane has been selected as the Alberta Ford Dealers AJHL Defensive Player of the Week.  Barker and Canucks alternate captain MacFarlane led their team on a three-game road trip last week, earning five of a possible six points […]

Canadian Selection Camp Rosters, Coaching Staffs Named Ahead of WJAC

CORNWALL, Ont. – Sixty-three players from across the Canadian Junior Hockey League (CJHL) have earned invites to selection camp ahead of the 2022 World Junior A Challenge. From Dec. 5-7, 63 CJHL players – 32 Team Canada East hopefuls and 31 Team Canada West invitees – will gather at the Cornwall Civic Complex for three days of practices and games. […]

Dutil, Budd and Middendorf Selected as AJHL Weekly Award Winners

The Pizza 73 AJHL Player of the Week for November 21st-27th, 2022 is Brooks Bandits forward Elliot Dutil.  With seven points, including six goals, Dutil led all AJHL skaters in points last week. Elliot Dutil (2003) scored two hat tricks in consecutive Bandit wins, starting with a four-point game (3G, 1A) in a 9-0 shutout […]

Fink, Court & Beaudoin Named as AJHL Weekly Award Winners

The Pizza 73 AJHL Player of the Week is Aiden Fink of the Brooks Bandits.  The AJHL scoring leader recorded nine points (3G, 6A) the week of October 17th-23rd to add to his current season total of 34 points (14G, 20A). Fink (Calgary, AB) opened the scoring in a 9-0 shutout of the Olds Grizzlys […]