Doucette scores winner as Matrix defeat Kings

The Robin’s Mid-Isle Matrix scored three times in the final 13 minutes Sunday to double the Kings County Kings 6-3 in P.E.I. Under-18 AAA Hockey League action.

The Kings led 1-0 after the first period but went to the third trailing 2-1. They tied the game 2-2 four minutes into the third period and at 3-3 two minutes later.

Jacob Doucette scored the winner with 12:40 to play at the South Shore Actiplex in Crapaud. Carson MacDougall had two goals in the win while Reese Wyand had a goal and an assist. Myles Grant and Matthew Mills also scored for Mid-Isle while Ryder Howatt, Chris MacDougall, Jordan Mahar, Gabe Taweel and Gage Taylor all chipped in an assist.

Denver MacDonald had two goals and an assist to pace the Kings while Gabe Hartlen had a goal and a helper. Taylor Maguire, Spencer Miller and Craig Steadman each contributed an assist.

Noah Visser earned the win as Mid-Isle improved to 2-4-2 while Landon Patton took the loss for the Kings (1-5-1)

rated player that we were going to watch as well,” MacDougall said. “Sometimes you go to a game and you’re looking for a player and sometimes you go to a game and the player finds you.”

The Reds and Anderson found a match, and the forward blossomed during his five-year career at UNB while playing in the Atlantic University Sport (AUS), the top university hockey conference in Canada.

“He became one of the top players in the AUS, dynamic speed, great skill level, goal scorer, but he could also play the style that we like to play – the fast, up-tempo style,” MacDougall said.

Anderson and teammate Marcus McIvor were chasing history in Halifax in midMarch. They had already won three U Sports championships and were chasing a historysetting fourth title.

But the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic struck, resulting in the tournament being cancelled after Day 1 of the tournament. UNB was slated to begin play the following day.

“It was obviously gutwrenching,” Anderson said. “(But), as we’ve seen in the last five or six months, there’s bigger things in the world than that.”

Anderson is looking to continue to progress while making his way in the pro ranks. He said playing for a stacked UNB squad has helped prepare him.

“If you have a couple of bad games or a couple of bad practices someone is ready to take your spot,” he said. “I’ve never doubted my decision to come to UNB once because I think it’s given me the best opportunity to prepare for that next level.”

The ECHL season is slated to begin on Dec. 11 with 20 of its 26 teams operating. The six-team North Division, which includes Adirondack, Brampton, Maine, Newfoundland, Reading and Worcester, has decided not to play this season due to the pandemic.

“He became one of the top players in the AUS, dynamic speed, great skill level, goal scorer, but he could also play the style that we like to play – the fast, uptempo style,” Gardiner MacDougall UNB head coach