The St. John’s Maple Leafs opened the 2018 Atlantic major midget hockey championship on a high note, blanking the eventual tournament champions, but finished with a thud, losing their three remaining games during the weekend tournament held in Lantz, N.S.
The Leafs trimmed the Moncton, N.B. AAA Flyers 7-0 last Thursday to kick off the Atlantic championship, but the scoring dried up as the Newfoundland and Labrador Major Midget Hockey League champions managed only four goals in their next three games to finish the tournament 1-3 and out of the playoffs.
Adding salt to the wound was the fact the Flyers defeated the Steele Subaru Midgets from Dartmouth, N.S., 3-2 Sunday to win the championship, and will represent the region in the national Telus Cup championship April 23-29 in Sudbury, Ont.
Friday, the Leafs lost 3-1 to Cole Harbour, N.S., and then dropped a pair of games Saturday, 6-0 to Kensington, P.E.I. and 5-3 to Dartmouth.
The Leafs’ Nick Gosse and Lucas Osmond were named to the first all-star team, and injured defenceman Jay Henley won the Esso Scholarship Award.
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