Generals fall in Allan Cup Final

Justin Seward
Times Reporter

 

The Bentley Generals left it all on the ice in the Allan Cup final but were defeated 2-0 by the South East Prairie Thunder of Manitoba on April 18 in Clarenville, NFLD.
The team went undefeated through the round robin but ran into some hot goaltending in the final.
“We played a strong game as well as they did. Their goaltender played really well as well as ours. (The Thunder) stuck to a game plan and (we) just couldn’t penetrate through the middle or get our scoring opportunities,” said forward Keenan Desmet.
The teams at the tournament were the best six teams in Canada. They all played hard and proved to be stiff competition.
“The competition was never any worse, it’s always hard to play any team in the round robin or the finals but this year I think we had a pretty strong team,” said Desmet.
“I thought we had the chance to win it but sometimes obviously things don’t work out the way you want it to.”
He says that none of the teams were giving the Generals any room on the ice.
“I think most of the team there were gunning for us as we’ve been playing together all year and we were the highly ranked team in the tournament. They played us tight, (and) knew what we had with big bodies and physicality,” said Desmet
Desmet, along with many of the other Generals, will rest up during the off-season and determine his hockey future later in the summer.