NCL gets 2019 off to a rolling start with 74 games held over four days in Calgary and Gatineau

The Eastern Conference featured a major competition, as the 16 and under girls’ and boys’ squads gathered in Gatineau for a three-day competition.

The Mavericks’ boys added another three victories to their impressive streak, and are now 11-0-0 on the season, sitting 12 points ahead of 2nd place Montreal Machine. 

Machine had a perfect weekend as well, going 2-0-0 to improve their record to 7-0-2. Machine’s only two losses in the season were to the Mavericks, and they look like a strong bet to capture the 2nd seed at the Eastern Conference Championships.

After Mavericks and Machine, there is a list of seven teams of which any could conceivably end up as the number 3rd seed by the end of the season. The Ottawa Titans currently hold the number three spot, buoyed by a 3-0-2 record in Gatineau. 

Titans sit on 18 points (6-0-5) from 11 games played, but many teams behind them have several games in hand and could jump over Titans in the months ahead. 

The biggest mover of the weekend was no doubt Capital Wave, who went 3-2-1 at the Centre Sportif de Gatineau. Wave, who had earned just one point in their first four games, grabbed 11 points from their six games played this past weekend to jump from 11th to a tie for 5th in the standings. Owen Pilson, Adrien Wera, and Alexander Luckett served as a three-headed attack for Capital Wave over the weekend, with Pilson scoring 14 goals, and Wera and Luckett each adding 13 of their own.

NCL Standings:

Year:

    2018-2019  2017-2018  2016-2017  2015-2016  2014-2015 

Age Group:

    Please Select  16U Boys  16U Girls  19U Men  19U Women  MLWP Men  MLWP Women 

    Please Select  Eastern Conference  Western Conference 

	GP	W	D	L	PTS	GF	GA	+/-	PP	PK
Mavericks	11	11	0	0	33	242	67	175	63%	81%
Montreal Machine	10	8	0	2	24	132	64	68	38%	75%
Ottawa Titans	11	6	0	5	18	116	140	-24	28%	54%
Shadow	11	5	1	5	16	95	116	-21	41%	65%
Toronto Golden Jets	7	4	0	3	12	79	69	10	44%	63%
St-Lambert	11	4	0	7	12	116	120	-4	27%	63%
Capital Wave	10	3	3	4	12	72	94	-22	5%	64%
Dollard	6	3	0	3	9	64	74	-10	59%	64%
CAMO	6	2	1	3	7	64	87	-23	42%	40%
Mavericks DS	11	1	1	9	4	63	158	-95	25%	56%
South West Stingrays	8	1	0	7	3	46	110	-64	21%	64%