2009-2010
Season
CONGRATULATIONS!
VTMHA would like to recognize the T-Birds that
made the BC U16 lower mainland squad (Phillip Xinos and Taylor
Foote) as well, Julian Davis and Bryce Evisting made the
lower mainland U17 squad.
Taylor Foote has also been invited to the U16
Provincial Tryouts - best of luck Taylor!
For more information about the BC Hockey High
Performance Program Click
Here
5 TBirds at 2010 PCAHA Scholarship Finals, Bronze
Medalists
Congratulations to: Kevin Isherwood, Michael Gee, Patrick
Escalambre, Eric Taylor and Fraser Titley. Head coach was Mr.
Chechak from Richmond Seafair Midget AAA/A1.
CONGRATULATIONS TO:
Our Midget C6 won the Port Alberni Midget C Hockey Tournament.
Click here for the team
photo after the championship game
The Vancouver Thunderbirds Hockey 4 Terminators recently won the
honour to introduce Ron Maclean and this week's Hockey Night
in Canada line-up which will be seen country-wide. With over 450
submissions, teams were expected to communicate what makes their
team so special and why the team stands out as the team to be
selected for this great honour. Overwhelming spirit, a passion
for hockey and team commitment fit the bill for the judges.
The Terminators' entry highlighted the team's love for hockey
and showcased how, like most kids who grow up in Vancouver's
mild and rainy winters, they embrace any opportunity to play the
game whether it is in backyard alleys, playgrounds or the
basement rec room.
The Tbirds Terminators will be featured on CBC Hockey Night in
Canada on Saturday, January 23rd starting at 3:30 p.m. when
they introduce the evening's lineup of games. The filming took
place last Thursday at UBC and the kids had full opportunity
to show off their spirit and skills during
practice.
2008-2009
Season
At the January
tournament in Princeton during one of the worst winters
known,Pee-Wee C-3 contact ,one goal out of first place,came in a
solid third and won the sportsmanship banner for the whole
tournament.
Congratulations to the Bantam
C1 team (coached by Don Currie) which was recently presented with
banners for having the top record in Bantam (body contact)
President's League regular season play, as well as for being the
most sportsmanlike team.
Atom
Rep
The first
picture is taken after the epic meeting of the Atom A1 and A2 teams
at the Osoyoos tournament which resulted in an 8-3 victory for the
A1 team. However, the A2 team did lead 2-1 after the first period.
But at the end of the game the friendships were renewed and the
picture taken.
The second
picture is after the A1 team wins the championship
trophy
Congratulations
to both teams for a well played tournament
Congratulations to the Thunderbirds Pee Wee
C5 team on their success this season in winning the Pee Wee C
Blue Group League Championship
January
2009
CONGRATULATIONS VTMHA ATOM A2
TEAM!
Hockey Canada has announced that the Vancouver Thunderbird Atom A2 team was one
of the 13 minor hockey
teams chosen as the beneficiaries of this year’s 'Future Team
Canada’ program. In December, Hockey Canada partnered
with the Wayne Gretzky Foundation and the Hockey Canada Foundation
to launch the fifth year of the ‘Future Team Canada’ program that
rewards and recognizes minor hockey teams across the nation for the
amount of heart they show rather than the amount of games they
win.
The Atom A2 team took on the challenge of describing their team’s values, special characteristics,
dedication to hockey and
their community
involvement(highlighting how they
worked as a team filling backpacks with blankets, clothing, shoes and food
for the homeless, providing toys to the Christmas Bureau and food
to the Union Gospel Mission). This is an amazing group
of 9 and 10 year olds
with 6 great coaches
that are unbelievably instrumental in
assisting in the
growth of each child as great hockey players and outstanding members of our community
ATOM A2 photo
January
2009
CONGRATULATIONS VTMHA
MEMBER!
JS
Park was one of four scholarship recipients from the PCAHA Midget
Scholarship Tournament as “MVP” of his team!
October,
2008
PEEWEE
A1 - Winners of Victoria Minor Hockey Thanksgiving Tournament!
Congratulations!
March,
2008
ATOM
A2 FINISH OFF BANNER YEAR!
The team that never gave up.
The Atom A2 team started the season with 1-4-0 record, and
then went on a 15 game unbeaten streak to win their league
championship with a 14-4-2 record. The start to their Final 4
championship round was just as rocky as they lost their first game
to Hollyburn 4-2.
However, just as they have
for the entire season, they just kept working and never stopped
believing in themselves. They beat BWC 2-1 and North Van 5-3 to win
the Tier 3 playoff championship and win their second banner of the
year. Congratulations to coach Gary Hunter and his team on a great
season!
see photo
March 6, 2008
Vancouver T-Birds Midget AAA Team Wins Wild Final Four
Playoff
The Vancouver T-Bird Midget
AAA team was pushed to the limit in the PCAHA Final 4 Playoffs
hosted at Sunset, Kitsilano and Chilliwack Arenas over the past 6
days. A tie-breaker game against Chilliwack, in Chilliwack,
was required to determine a winner in the highly competitive Blue
Group playoff.
The T-Birds had to overcome
early game deficits, as well as the burden of expectations they had
developed over a nearly flawless regular season, to go undefeated
in the playoffs. A thrilling 3- 2 victory in the tie-breaker
game in Chilliwack launches the T-Bird Midget AAA team into the
Provincials for the third consecutive year. The Midget AAA
Provincials run from March 17 through March 21 in Comox.
Congratulations to the team and best of luck
at the Provincials!!!
JANUARY 11, 2007
Midget AAA T-Birds Win
.... Again!
After coming very close last year (lost the
final in overtime), this year's Vancouver Thunderbird Midget
AAA team claimed the association's first Richmond International
Midget AAA Tournament championship with convincing 5-0
and 4-1 victories in the tournament semi-final and final.
Playing 8 games over 5 days, the Thunderbirds triumphed over 28
teams in the tournament's Midget AAA division.
The Thunderbirds reinforced their number 1
provincial ranking, scoring 4 unanswered goals in the third period
of their quarter-final matchup against number 2 ranked Ridge
Meadows, including the winner with 11 seconds remaining. This
capped a stunning comeback from a 3-0 deficit heading into the
third period of the highly anticipated T-Birds/Ridge Meadows
contest. Going undefeated at the Richmond Tournament added 8
more victories to the T-Bird's win/loss record this year of 37
wins, 1 loss and 3 ties.
The T-Birds will now take a one week break,
before resuming their assault on the PCAHA Midget Tier 1 regular
season championship.
for photo click
here
Some of our
2007-2008 Team Successes:
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR ATOM C6
TEAM!!
VTMHA's Atom C6
team (The Ice Hawks) played in the Sno-King Tournament in
Kirkland, Wash. over the weekend (Nov. 23-25) and the kids
won! They were so thrilled. They were undefeated in the
tournament.
One parent from the team
said:
"It was a really exciting tournament -
in just a matter of days the kids changed from a group that barely
knew each other into a cohesive unit that went out and worked hard
on each and every shift.
That they won was really just the
icing on the cake - to see them supporting each other, working like
a team and having the best time of their lives was really amazing
to see."
click here to see
victory photo
Some of our 2006-2007 Team
Successes:
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Update June 27,
2007
VTMHA Bantam AAA Wins
President's League Banner
see
photo..
The AAA Bantam team fought
their way into the PCAHA playdowns by beating Van Minor in a
two-game series. The boys tied the first game against them
and as result had to play a second game to see who got to play
against BWC. John's boys played a very determined game and
won 4-3 in over-time scoring in the last minute of the 3rd period
to tie it up and force the overtime period. However,
they faced the unbeaten, tier 1 BWC team in the first
round who took down John's team in 2 straight games. BWC ultimately went on to the win the BC
Provincials and Western Canada Championships without losing a
game.
In the President's round they
played hard against Van MHA, Burnaby MHA, Richmond MHA and
Semiahmoo MHA. The boys won against Van Minor 7-5 in a hard
fought battle, a 3-3 tie against Richmond, lost 4-2 in a strange
match against Burnaby MHA but beat Semiahmoo soundly 5-2 in a
nasty-chippy affair. The boys took the blows but paid
them back with some hard working goals-for.
The keys to their success were
the players' fitness, the discipline, and
determination at the right moments in each game.
John also had solid goaltending to rely
upon. A nice end
to a season with the PRESIDENT'S SERIES
banner.
March 26,
2007
VTMHA's Midget AAA won
the Final 4 and at the BC Midget AAA Provincials
our T-Bird team reached the championship final against Juan de
Fuca. The game was well played and very exciting with the
Thunderbirds scoring first and held the Island power house to only
three goals over two periods – the end score was 5-1. In
addition, the Birds won the sportsmanship award for the
tournament.
This team
has won a number of titles and awards this season including the
Lower Mainland Championship banner, the Playoff banner and is now a
BC Provincial finalist. The record of 47 wins 7 loses and 7 ties
was an amazing record for a very deserving team.
February 25. 2007
Peewee Contact C5 won the
President's League Blue Banner for their regular season see photo
February 25.
2007
PeeWee Checking
C1 won the President's League Gold Banner for their regular
season.
VTMHA'S Midget B1 team won the
Trail Midget AA tournament over the Jan 12 weekend. They were
undefeated! see photo
VTMHA'S Midget AAA Team who
came second in the Richmond International Tournament held December
27 to 31, 2006
The team played Prince
George for the Gold final losing in overtime 6-5. Teams in the
tournament included Whitehorse, Calgary, Anchorage, Victoria,
California, Kamloops and a number of other Canadian and US
teams.
Some of our 2005-2006 Team
Successes:
CONGRATULATIONS
TO THE TBIRDS MIDGET AAA & B1 TEAMS WHO WON THE FINAL 4 AND
WENT TO THE PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Click here for Midget AAA Team
Photo
Click here for Midget B1 Team
photo
Congratulations to the TBirds PeeWee B2 Team - PCAHA Peewee
B President Series Playoff Champions
2005/2006!!
Click here for PeeWee B2 Team
photo
Congratulations to the TBirds PeeWee C2 Checking Team -
PCAHA Gold Group Champions 2005/2006!!
Click here for PeeWee C2 Team
photo
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