Rennie bantams power past Harrington

By Mark Lidbetter

John Rennie 10 | Harrington 0

It wasn’t climate change that did in the Harrington College Icebergs last Wednesday afternoon at Pointe Claire’s Bob Birnie Arena, it was the potent play of the John Rennie Pro Action Hockey squad in the GMAA bantam hockey season opener for the two opponents.

Rennie opened the scoring early and piled in 10 goals over the course of three periods, with the third frame going to running time.

“We had a lot of our older players in this game,” Rennie coach Mathieu Montreuil said. “That made a difference today.”

The Sports Études stream squad from the West Island showed they are learning their lessons in puck control and team play as cycling the puck, passing and defending stymied the visitors from HCC.

The shutout by Rennie goaltender Ethan Rosenberg wasn’t so much as earned as it was waited for. The Icebergs just couldn’t crack the Rennie perimetre to get any quality shots on Ethan Rosenberg.

Iceberg goalies Felix Bejournay and Alex Campagana shared a heavy workload and despite the final score made numerous saves on their respective shifts.

The Harrington penalty kill did surrender a couple of power play tallies in the match but came up big on a five minute major that was assessed for a check from behind to one of their players.

Jesse Farinaro opened the scoring with his first of two 90 seconds into play, earning him the game winner. Scott Coulton followed with a nice flip shot to the top left corner and Farinaro’s perfect tip in from the point had Rennie up 3-0 just past the midpoint of the first.

Eric Massie notched with Rennie enjoying a man advantage that used only nine seconds of the penalty time. Brett Long contributed a pair to the cause, Coulton notched his second, Rory Gagnon had a single and Ryan Bizzarro closed out the scoring with two tallies.

“What the players got to learn in this game was to work the clock,” coach Montreuil said.

“We told them to pass and pass again but at some point they had to take the shot.”