{"id":81998,"date":"2022-02-17T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/juneau-10-u-hockey-team-sweeps-tournament\/"},"modified":"2022-02-17T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T07:30:00","slug":"juneau-10-u-hockey-team-sweeps-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/juneau-10-u-hockey-team-sweeps-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Juneau 10-U hockey team sweeps tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Juneau Capitals 10-and-under team took the 23rd President’s Day Invitational Hockey Tournament with six smashing wins last weekend.<\/p>\n

The Capitals wins generally came by wide margins, said team manager Jamie Troxel.<\/p>\n

“This is the first time they’ve all competed with each other. For a lot of these kids it was their first tournament ever,” Troxel said in a phone interview. “Each game got more and more exciting. We couldn’t believe how well these kids came together as a team.”<\/p>\n

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Fourteen teams competed in the 10U category, including the the Capitals and a second team from the team’s players.<\/p>\n

“It was so exciting. It was my first tournament as well,” Troxel said. “The energy with us parents, with the crowd, as we were watching our players- you could see the fire in their eyes.”<\/p>\n

The tournament was the first time the team had played together, with no travel last year, Troxel said. Goalie Max Hayes delivered a standout performance, particularly in the 7-1 final match against another undefeated Anchorage Hockey Association team, Troxel said.<\/p>\n

“He stopped an amazing amount of goals,” Troxel said. “He probably stopped 30 out of 31 shots.”<\/p>\n

Troxel’s own son Andrew also brought the noise, scoring six out of seven of the goals in the final match, she said. All six matches were heavy wins for the Capitals.<\/p>\n

“Seven seemed to be our lucky number,” Troxel said. “Out of the six games we won most by 7-1 or 2 except for one we won 10-2.”<\/p>\n

The team will head to Homer for the state championship in March, Troxel said.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got all the Anchorage and Fairbanks coaches looking out for us after winning Presidents Day,” Troxel said. “They really worked hard as a team. We had really good defense.”<\/p>\n

• Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at (757) 621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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