BCHL Powell River Kings

[cKy]

So pretty selfish plug for the Powell River Kings, which is in the BCHL. My nephew who practices with the team (isn't on the active roster) was suited up on the bench as an emergency backup goalie. The Kings apparently have some injury issues in net.

So at around the 14:00 mark in the 1st period with the game tied 0-0, the Kings starter gets run and smashes his head pretty heavy on the ice. Trainer goes out and immediately calls the EBUG in. He's from the area so the crowd gets right into it and someone in attendance texts his dad (my sisters fiance) so she lets us all know. We ended up watching the stream (BCHL has streams, crazy world) and he finished the game winning 4-1, stopping 21 shots for his for his first BCHL win and stopping a losing streak for the Kings. Ohhh, and ended up getting 1st star.

http://www.powellriverkings.com/ebug...ngs-to-4-1-win

Kid is pretty talented and just amazingly humble and a incredibly hard worker. The only knock on him is his size, which he makes up for with his athleticism.

[Northendzone]

As a goalie parent I really appreciate this story.

Hopefully he can get some traction from this.

[Drake]

Cam Stevenson & his midget coach Andy Welsh talk about last Saturday.

“It was unfortunate what happened to Mitch but as soon as he went down, my heart sank,” said Stevenson, 16. “And I was like, ‘Is this actually happening?'”

“Whenever the move happened, word spread over to our side of the ice that Cam was in net,” said Kings midget rep coach Andy Welsh. “We continued practicing but it was not going so well. The guys’ heads were somewhere else too. The whole team went over and watched Cam play the last period and a half.

“When we went over to watch him in the second,he was getting bombarded with shots but he was working so hard. Pucks were finding him and it was enjoyable to watch.”

“It was definitely the fans,” said Stevenson of the moment that made it real. “Everyone was cheering so loud for me and that got me really excited and I didn’t want to let anybody down.”

“They were getting excited, me and my assistant coach were nervous for him too,” said Welsh. “We went down to the other end for the third period and when the Kings got those two goals in the third, it looked more and more like a win. The crowd was going wild.”

So did the players from the bench at the end of the game, piling off to mob their young goaltender who turned out to to be the story of the night. After the game, Kings interim head coach Brock Sawyer presented Stevenson with game puck.

Stevenson says he hopes to progress to the BCHL level with the Kings or another franchise within the next one to two years.

http://bchl.ca/stevensons-emergency-appearance-nets-w