The force is with Huskies

Although his tongue was planted firmly in cheek, it was enough to rile the Huskies.
In fact, after accepting the R.W. Pugh Award as the most sportsmanlike player in CIS men’s hockey, Saskatchewan’s Dean Beuker quipped: “I was going to comment on Kelly Hrudey’s remarks, but that wouldn’t be very sportsmanlike, now would it?”
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Although most of the players in the University Cup are major junior graduates, there is a smattering of junior A products in the lineups.
Lakehead’s roster features six members who played junior A, three from the Alberta Junior Hockey League. Acadia’s lineup has five from the junior A ranks, among them Brian Sutherland and Matt Quinn who won a Royal Bank Cup with the Halifax Oland Exports.
Half of the team from McGill University originates from the junior A system. Among them is former SJHL player Steven Pearce of the Weyburn Red Wings. Wilfrid Laurier’s lineup includes third-string goalie Aaron Forer from the Melfort Mustangs.




EDMONTON — Should the University of Saskatchewan Huskies and Alberta Golden Bears meet in the final of the Telus Cup hockey championship, expect the same game plan the Huskies used to great success Thursday.
In basketball terms, the Dogs went to full-court pressure in a 5-1 win over Acadia.
“We played a great team game, especially between the blue-lines,” offered U of S head coach Dave Adolph. “That’s how you beat the Bears, too. You get your skates up over the blueline and try and congest that area that they like to get their speed.
“We concentrated on that for the last two weeks after we got humbled here (in the Canada West conference final).”
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Hockey Night in Canada analyst Kelly Hrudey, who grew up in Edmonton, said at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport awards gala this week that the other teams didn’t have a chance at beating the host Golden Bears.
Hrudey said Saskatchewan couldn’t win because everybody ends up moving to Alberta because they’re envious.
—ZARY