The Grey team scored their only goal in the first minute of play.  The Grey team was on the attack in the Black zone when a Grey defender at the blue line missed a pass from the side boards.  Black’s Kate Piacenze jumped on the loose puck in the neutral zone, carried it solo into the lower right face off circle and made a neat weak side pass to Taylor House breaking on the left.  House put the puck into the net on a neat tip-in to Black ahead 1-0.  Piacenze got the assist.

The lead lasted less than a minute.  Grey took the ensuing faceoff into Black’s zone and set up rotating the puck between the end boards and the blue line.  Grey’s Abigail Welch took a neat pass of the end boards right at the lower right crease and tipped the puck past the goalie to tie the game 1-1.  Two minutes later, Grace Bowby/Edina scored unassisted to put the Grey ahead 2-1.

Despite three goals being scored, the game pace was slow.  That changed after the third goal and ten minutes into the half, the pace picked up.  The Grey scored again when Kendall Williamson/Breck picked up a loose rebounding puck in the right slot area and beat the goalie through the 5-hole to put Grey up 3-1.  A minute later Caitlin Schneider scored for the Grey.  Grey led 4-1 at halftime.

The Black struck back early in the second half.  Natalie Snodgrass/Eastview skated across the top of the crease just as a shot rebounded off the goalie’s pad.  Snodgrass reached the rebounding puck on the right side and slid it into the net to cut the Grey lead to 4-2.

Black’s Erin Dillion got the final goal of the game, breaking down the slot and beating the goalie on a high hard shot that just barely cleared the goalie’s shoulder before going into the net.  The game ended with the Grey winning 4-3.

This game was evenly played for the first half of the opening period, then the Red’s Carly Bullock/Blake went to work.  Bullock scored a hat trick in the next 8 minutes of play to put Red up 3-0.  The Blue team was starting to dominate play when Bullock scored her first goal at the 12 minute mark.  After that goal, the game became transitional with both teams carrying the puck into their opponents’ zone and firing on the net.  The defending team would then pick up the rebound and turn it into to a rush up ice.

At one point, in a three minute span on the clock, the Blue team had four rushes, but failed to score.  Their forwards settled for longer shots on the Red net dispite no defenders between them and the net.  Still the Red’s goalie Kai-Lilly Karpman had to make good saves.  She came up big on one rush with a diving weakside save when the Blue forwards finally made the weakside pass on a rush.

Bullock second goal came with 5 minutes left in the opening half.  An initial tough shot on the Blue net got the goalie down forcing her to make a great save on the first rebound.  The save resulted in a second rebound ending up on Bullock’s stick.  Ever the opportunist, Bullock buried the puck to put Red up 2-0.  A minute later, Bullock scored her third goal to get the hat trick.  The first half ended with the Red leading 3-0.

The Red’s Rebecca Gilmore and Kyleigh Hanzlik each scored a second half goal to end the scoring 5-0.  In the second half, the Blue forwards could not beat the Red defense carrying and passing the puck through the neutral zone.  If they dumped the puck, they could not hold the zone to create scoring opportunities.

The Gold beat the Green 1-0 in the camp “championship game”, but it was a ragged affair.  For most of the first half, neither team could get untracked.  The game was slowed by numerous stoppages and frequent offsides calls.


Penalties had less an impact in all three games played Thursday; in part because of some rule changes.  On a penalty, no icing was allowed.  The penalty killers had to carry the puck or pass the puck out of their zone.  If they iced the puck, a face off would be called in their zone.  Face offs after a penalty call were held in the power play team’s zone.  It also appeared that the red line was invoked.  The penalized team could not pass beyond the red line out of their zone.  Finally all penalties were 90 seconds long.

Most teams skated the penalties off, there were few power play goals scored.  Green had a couple of power plays in the opening half and couldn’t get a shot on the net even though they controlled the puck in the Red zone.  The first half ended in a 0-0 tie.

The second half was a very different game, both teams came out of the locker room ready to play.  The overall pace was up and the puck movement and passing better.  At the 15 minute mark, the Gold launched an attack out of the left faceoff circle on the Green net.  It ended with a shot taken from the left faceoff.  The shot was deflected left before it got to the net forcing Green’s goalie Heather King to make sliding skate save against the left pipe.  The puck rebounded off the pipe slowing rolling out of the crease into the slot barely out of reach of the sprawling King’s glove.  Gold’s Haley Mack/East Grand Forks came down the slot, one-timed the rolling puck, and buried it in the net for the game winner.

A minute later, the Gold thought they had another score.  As the shot was put on net, a Gold forward ended up sitting in the crease next to the goalie as the puck flew by into the net.  The game got tense in the last two minutes when Gold drew a penalty.  Green established puck control in the Gold’s zone, pulled their goalie, and had several good chances to score, but time ran out.

At 7:00 AM Thursday, the U14 girls formed two cross ice tourneys with multiple games played on both arena rinks.  By 8:00, the last  two teams played for the “U14″ championship.  The Green beat the White 3-2 in an ntense 3-on-3 game played on a third of the ice with all the teams knocked out of the tourney standing on the sidelines.

All in all it was a good ending to the last NTDP camp held this summer.  In early September, Reebok and Minnesota Hockey will hold a boys U14/15 Festival.  The first ever event will be played at Braemar September 27-29th, before the 2013-2014 season kicks off with association tryouts.  Players participating in the Festival will be playing on District teams and have been selected by their districts.