P.E.I. teams played for bronze medals at Atlantic under-15 AAA, under-13 hockey championships

Eastern Express saw three overtime games

Two P.E.I. teams played for bronze medals at 2022 Atlantic hockey championships on May 8.

The Eastern Express, who just missed out on advancing to the gold-medal game at the under-15 AAA event in Quispamsis, N.B., took on The Rangers from Nova Scotia in the thirdplace game.

At the under-13 AAA tournament in Summerside, the Mid-isle Matrix faced the Pictou County Crushers from Nova Scotia for third place.

The results of the bronzemedal games were unavaialble by deadline time.

The Express went a very respectable 2-0-2 (won-lostovertime losses) in the round robin.

Three of those four games went to overtime.

The Pownal-based Express finished in a three-way tie for first place with New Brunswick's Dieppe Flyers (3-1-0) and host Kennebecasis Valley Kings (3-1-0). Each team had seven points, but the Flyers and Kings advanced to the final based on tiebreaking procedures.

OVERTIME WINS

The Express defeated the Tricounty Thunder from Newfoundland and Labrador 4-2 and the Rangers from Nova Scotia 3-2 in overtime. The Dieppe Flyers edged the Express 2-1 in a shootout to close out the round robin. An Express win in that game would have sent Eastern to the gold-medal game.

Eastern's other loss – a 5-4 decision to Kennebecasis Valley – also came in extra time.

UNDER-13

The Matrix went 1-3-0 in the round robin at the under-13 tournament.

Mid-isle's victory – a 3-1 decision over the host Summerside Capitals (0-4-0) – punched its ticket to the bronze-medal game.

The Matrix's losses came to the Moncton Beavers (5-1), the Tricounty Thunder (7-0) and Pictou County (5-0).

Following are Summerside's other game results: Moncton 5, Summerside 3; Pictou County 4, Summerside 1, and Tricounty 10, Summerside 1.