7th Annual Showcase Huge Success

The Greater Metro Junior 'A' Hockey League's seventh annual College Showcase Classic took place earlier this week (Dec. 15th) and has ended as another successful event in the GMHL's 10 year history.

The 10 team, 10 game showcased some of the GMHL's elite teams and individual players infront of many colleges and school programs from higher levels of the game.

Showcase coordinator Steven Quinn, who also serves as President of the Niagara Whalers, was very pleased with the event: "Our organization was proud to host the event and hope we have the opportunity to do so again next year," Quinn said, "our goal would be to make it a even bigger event for all involved to promote the GMHL and our players."

This was the first year the event was held in Niagara, which proved to draw a record setting amount of colleges. Some of the registered programs in attendance included: Royal Miltary College, Canisius College, RPI, Eastern Michigan Univ., Elmira, Ohio State, Niagara Univ., Brock Univ., College Prospects, Syracuse University, Geneseo College, Adrian College, Northern Michigan  & several others.  

All of the game results were updated live and all of the game stats are available. Rink #1 was broadcasted live on fasthockey.com

Of note, Tottenham Steam forward Graham Pickard lead the showcase in points with 7 points (2g, 5a) in two games. Second with 5 points (3g, 2a) was Captain of the Bradford Rattlers Devin Fullum representing the Central Division Selects.