College Showcase Classic Ends in Huge Success

The Greater Metro Junior 'A' Hockey League's sixth annual College Showcase Classic took place yesterday (December 18th) and has ended as the most successful and largest event in the GMHL's nine year history.

 

The 22 team, 22 game showcase kicked off at 8:15am and ended 6:15pm with all games taking place.

 

GMHL Commissioner Ken Girard commented on the fantastic operation put on by the Toronto Attack & TPA Sports organization:  "I would like to extend my thanks Mr. Al Donnan, all the staff and all of their smiling faces throughout the whole tournament. It was well planned, well executed event. I feel it was a huge success -- coaches, scouts were quite pleased at what they saw."

 

Without a doubt, the two day event proved to be a huge success. From the first annual Pre-Showcase Combine, the tournament execution and on-ice play. The environment at the venue was second to none in terms of organization and energy.

 

The Showcase organizer and President of TPA Sports Al Donnan was very pleased with the operation of the event. "It was a wonderful day," said Donnan, "Our staff did the omen's work today, Bob Klein with the GMHL officials group were fantastic, our volunteers did a great job."

 

At the showcase, a private meeting room upstairs was set aside for scouts to personally invite players for one-on-one meetings. Donnan continued to say that over 80 players were taken into the private meeting room with scouts and recruiters from the NCAA, CIS, ACHA and Major Junior Teams.

 

There were twelve (12) commitment letters extended on site to the GMHL elite confirmed by Mr. Donnan.

 

Mr. Donnan went on to say 22 schools & major junior teams were registered in attendance of the showcase -- surpassing last year's total of 17 schools. He also mentioned that more schools were in attendance then initially expected. Several NCAA D3,CIS schools and even Major Junior teams were scouting that he did not expect to be there.

 

All of the game results were updated live and all of the game stats are available.

 

Of note, Halton Raven's forward Shane Bennett lead the showcase in scoring with 8 points (6g, 2a) in two games. Joining him was Grey Highlands Bravehearts forward Cam Pfeiffer with 8 points (5g, 3a) of his own. For full scoring details, change the type of statistic from 'Regular Season' to 'Exhibition' when viewing a standings or statistics sections.