The two competing teams are named in honour of past presidents; the Avalon side will go by Team Taylor, for Hockey Newfoundland and Labrador junior hockey chair Gerry Taylor, while the City team will be known as Team Tobin, for past president Bern Tobin.
Team Tobin, made up of players from the Avalon Roebothan McKay Marshall Capitals, St. John’s Hickman Automotive Group Caps, Mount Pearl Mark’s Blades and Northeast Pizza Delight Aberdeen Celtics, consists of forwards Ben Cleary, Andrew Paul, John Snow (Avalon), Graham Oldford, Tyler Bennett, Alex Snow (Northeast), Joey Trenholm, Grant Nolan, Jason Michaude (St. John’s), Grant Thompson, Chad Thompson, Bobby Upshall (Mount Pearl); defenceman Matthew Caines, Ben Marshall (Avalon), Scott Cahill (Northeast), Josh Thornhill (St. John’s), Stephen Predham, Bradyn Brown (Mount Pearl); and goaltenders Brandon Short (Northeast) and Jordan Ryan (Mount Pearl).
Mount Pearl’s Adam Collins will serve as head coach, with assistants Dave Pollard, Bob Thompson and Gerard Rose.
Team Taylor includes players from the Southern Shore C&W Offshore Breakers, Trinity Placentia I.J. Smith Home Building Flyers, CBR Assante Wealth Management Renegades and C.B.N. MoorFrost Stars. Forwards are Peter Kavanagh, Shayne Kavanagh (Southern Shore), Devin Whelan, Bradley Budden, Lucas Goobie (C.B.N.), Conner Stevens, Jordan Richards (Trinity Placentia), Mitch King, Lucas Lush, Zac Hoskies, Matt Porter (CBR); blueliners Daniel Aylward (Southern Shore), Nick Noseworthy, Brandon Petten (C.B.N.), Cody Wrice (Trinity Placentia), Tyler Hennessey, Stephen Ledrew (CBR), and goalies Mitchell Dobbin (C.B.N.) and Mitch Puddister (CBR).
The coaching staff is from CBR, headed up by Bernie Sweeney, joined by assistants Jon Kavanagh, Steve Gillard and Neil Lockyer.
Avalon has won the last two All-Star games — including an 8-1 routing of the city squad last year — and has taken 10 of 16 overall.
Standings
GP W L S/OL Pts
Mount Pearl 19 12 6 1 25
CBR 17 11 6 0 22
Avalon 20 11 9 0 22
C.B.N. 18 10 8 0 20
St. John’s 16 9 6 1 19
Trinity-Placentia 15 9 6 0 18
Northeast 19 7 11 1 15
Southern Shore 14 0 12 2 2
Upcoming games
Tonight
7:15 p.m., S.W. Moores Memorial Stadium, St. John’s at C.B.N.
7:40 p.m., Southern Shore Arena, Mount Pearl at Southern Shore
Saturday
7 p.m., Southern Shore Arena, Northeast at Southern Shore
8 p.m., Goulds Arena, St. John’s at Avalon
8:10 p.m., Robert French Memorial Stadium, Trinity Placentia at CBR
Sunday
2:30 p.m., Whitbourne Stadium, Avalon at Trinity Placentia
5 p.m., Jack Byrne Arena, Mount Pearl at Northeast
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