The Prep Team in action at the Olympic Center in February 2023. Photo: Mr. Michael Aldridge.
Following a weekend off after a long PHC weekend at home, the Prep team travels to St. Andrews College for the prestigious Macpherson Tournament. The tourney features some of the best teams in prep hockey, as well as the GOHL all-stars, an all-star team from the 08-09 birth years in the Ontario Jr B league.
The Prep team plays its first game on Friday at 9:30 a.m. against the BK Selects. They have played each other once this year, back in October at Clarkson University, where BK won 3-2 in overtime.
“We expect the outcome of this game to be in favor of our side,” said Cody Betsch ’26. “We are a much stronger team now compared to what we were back in October. This should be a good first game to set the tone for the weekend,” he added.
Later in the day, the Prep team takes on arguably its biggest rival, St. Andrews College. This is a special game every year at this tournament. This game is sold out and loud. This is going to be a bloodbath as these two rivals go at it.
“We know there is going to be a loud atmosphere. It’s our job as a team to match the energy and come out with the outcome we want,” Devin Smith ’26 said. This will be the third meeting between these teams this season. Northwood won their first meeting 5-2 at SAC, and SAC came to Lake Placid and beat the Huskies 5-2 at home, so one team will look to take the season series lead.
On Saturday morning, the Huskies play Victory Honda at 11:30 a.m., which will be their last round-robin game before the elimination games begin. If the Huskies advance, they will either play at 6:30 or 8:30 p.m. on Saturday. Depending on their results from that game, they will decide which game they will play on Sunday.
It is going to be a long, hard-fought weekend for the Huskies. They have not brought home first-place hardware in this tournament in quite some time. They look to have a strong tournament to build momentum for the last few weekends before the playoffs.
