NSA Men's Junior A Season Recap

NSA Men's Junior A Season Recap

by Wes Moon

The National Sports Academy Mountaineers men’s Junior A team finished off their season with great success, winning both the New England division and the league championship. The team finished with a 41-3-5 record with 248 goals for and only 94 goals against.

            The team leaders in points and goals were Devin Desnoyers and Kevin Valenti. Desnoyers finished of the season leading the team in points with 72 (29 goals and 43 assists). Valenti lead the team in goals with 30 and was runner up in the points race with 61. Jakob Rasmussen was the top goaltender with a record of 26-1-3, 1887.63 minutes played, 4 shutouts, a 1.91 goals against average, and 60 total goals against.

           

The Mountaineers competed in the New England Division where they dominated the competition all year, ending up with a full 17 more points than the second place team in the division.

            During the playoffs the Mountaineers started off the first round of the playoffs very strong defeating the Eastern Kodiaks in a 2 game sweep. The second round of the playoffs proposed a different challenge. The New England Stars, who were the second place team in the division, went up to a 1-0 series lead which forced the Mountaineers to have strong second and third games, which they did winning the next two games to go to the championship in Stoneham, Massachusetts to play the Syracuse Stampede. The Mountaineers won the first two games against the Stampede to finish off the series and send Syracuse home with a sweep and came back with three new trophies.