Day 8 - Team Turns the Corner

The Jr. Sharks returned to the Aréna les 2 Glaces de Val Bélair for the next day's exhibition games and finally turned the corner with a 2-2 tie against the Colorado Avalanche, one of the favorites to win the International B Class.  Cameron Ward got the team on the scoreboard with his trademark snapshot from the blue line, and Matthew Durst knotted up the game by slapping at a loose puck in front of the crease.

Next up was the Cole Harbour Red Wings (Nova Scotia), a team which was participating in the International Pee-Wee BSR Tournament.  The Jr. Sharks opened the scoring by catching the Red Wings on a full line change with Joe DiGiulio's blast from the top of the right face off circle.  The team went up 2-0 when the puck slowly squirted loose into the offensive zone with a foot race won by Joe who teed off from nearly the same spot.  Joey Cassetti then made the score 3-1 when he sniped a wrist shot that found the five-hole.  Then, in the last seconds, with the score 3-2 and the Red Wings goalie pulled, Cameron Ward somehow strong-armed the puck out of the defensive zone while flat on his belly to Chase Edwards for the empty netter.