All students win at Paul Nelson Memorial game
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Students always come first at Nipissing University, and this year’s Paul Nelson Memorial Hockey game proved that maxim, both on and off the ice.
Off the ice, it wasn’t even a contest, with Nipissing’s students winning big. The game raised more than $1,000 for the Paul Nelson Memorial Scholarship, and more than 250 food items were collected for the student food bank.
On the ice, the student team narrowly prevailed in a shoot out victory over the much, much older faculty and staff team. By all accounts it was an exciting game. Jeremie, “Mr. C” Carreau, scored a dramatic, dying seconds breakaway goal for the faculty-staff heroes to send the game into sudden death overtime. When the overtime failed to produce a winner, the two teams headed to a shootout. Brodie “Not a Student Anymore” Beard bulged the twine for the faculty-staff team, but the fourth-year BPHE students managed to eke out the victory, scoring twice in the shootout.
With this year’s victory, the student teams now hold a slight, one game, historical edge over the faculty-staff squad.