Thursday, 1 November 2012

Mils' Reeve selected to Team Canada West

 
      

 
    Melville Millionaires forward TJ Reeve has been selected to Team Canada West that will be heading to the 2012 World Junior A Challenge from November 5th to November 11th,2012 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

     The 18 year-old Grenfell product was one of only 2 Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League players selected to the team along with La Ronge Ice Wolves's forward Rhyse Dieno while Humboldt Broncos Head Coach Dean Brockman will be the Head Coach of Team Canada West.

    Reeve is in 2nd season with the Millionaires. So far in 11 games this season, Reeve has 9 goals and 9 points plus 2 penalty minutes. In his rookie season last year, he had 8 goals and 5 assists for 13 points in 32 games. Before the Mils, Reeve played his Midget hockey with the Moose Jaw Generals of the SMAAAHL.

    Team Canada West are slated to take off to Nova Scotia today, before playing an exhibition game against the USA on Saturday. Despite the tournament opening up on Monday, Team Canada West will play their first game on Tuesday against the Czech Republic before finishing off the short round robin against Team Russia on Wednesday. The playoff portion of the tournament will take place on Thursday with the Gold Medal game going on Sunday (Nov 11th) on TSN.Reeve will miss 3 Millionaires regular season games.

2 comments:

  1. Congratualtions to TJ on making the Team. Well deserved. A very hard worker on the ice.

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  2. Congratulations to Rhyse Dieno. Great to see a talented player like that get recognized. Cheer for our Sask players!

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