Jordy Bellerive scored two goals as Team BC defeated New Brunswick 5-3 in its opening game of the boys’ hockey tournament at the 2015 Canada Winter Games.
Bellerive scored the opener in a period that saw his team outshoot New Brunswick by a margin of 13-5. Two minutes after Bellerive’s goal, New Brunswick’s Michael Cyr scored on a 5-on-3 power play.
Bellerive scored again early in the second on a 2-on-1. New Brunswick replied with two goals in the second to take a 3-2 lead heading into the final stanza.
Medal standings for the Canada Winter Games 2015
In the third, Connor McDonald and Jarret Tyszka helped give Team BC the win.
Elsewhere in the boys’ hockey competition, Newfoundland & Labrador beat Northwest Territories 11-0, Alberta defeated Saskatchewan 4-1, Ontario beat Manitoba 5-3, Quebec easily handled Nova Scotia 6-1, and PEI crushed Yukon 13-0.
Team BC hopes to earn its second consecutive gold, having won it all at the 2011 Canada Winter Games in Halifax.
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