The second-year Burnaby Winter Club Hockey Academy is threatening to make the elite 15s midget division a runaway.
The Burnaby Central Secondary School team upped its winning streak to 19 consecutive games following a 6-1 victory over Kelowna-based Pursuit of Excellence at the winter club on Sunday.
Ben Poisson led the home team with two goals and a single assist, while defenceman Mack Gray chipped in with a goal and two helpers.
Logan Bromhead, Liam Evenson and Evan Walls also scored.
Zackery Myrowich chalked up his 12th straight win in goal, with 23 saves in the game.
The win improved the winter club’s record to 19-2-0, 16 points better than second-place Yale Hockey Academy from Abbotsford.
Burnaby opened with a 4-3 come-from-behind win over Delta on Dec. 12.
Walls tallied the game-winning goal with his second of the game and just two seconds left in regulation time.
Trailing 3-2 into the third period, Evenson tied the contest with his 10th goal of the season.
Myrowich made 25 saves for the win, while Delta keeper Tyler McLennan stopped 47 winter club shots.
Nathan Pelletier also scored for Burnaby.
On Saturday, the winter club academy defeated the winless Pacific Coast academy from Victoria 6-3 in a morning matchup and Edge School for Athletes from Calgary 3-2 later in the day.
Bromhead was in on all three Burnaby goals in the win over Edge, scoring twice, including the game-winner, while setting up Walls for the academy’s first goal of the game.
In the earlier game, Jonathan Stein, Nolan Welsh, Colten Gerlib, Emilio Salas, Bromhead and Walls all scored, while Myrowich had 29 stops in goal.
Kolby Matthews and Myrowich top the division-leading goalies. Matthews is 7-1, with a league-best two shutouts, a 1.88 goals against average and a 0.936 save percentage.
Myrowich is currently averaging two goals per game and sports a 0.925 save percentage.
Ethan de Jong and Walls lead all goal scorers with 17 and 16 markers, respectively. De Jong is second in scoring with 31 total points, one point behind overall leader Parmjot Dhaliwal of Yale.
Walls is third overall with 29 points.
Angus Crookshank, Bromhead andPoisson are also among the league’s top-10 scorers for the Burnaby academy.
“We got a lot of skill and a lot of forwards who can score,” said elite 15s head coach Leland Mack. “In our first year, we learned some things along the way – the school, scheduling, planning for the season, the little things. (This season) as far as the program goes, we had everything ready to go.”
Leland enjoys the development model the academy offers – more time on the ice for skill development during the days, while allowing for better time management for school work in the evenings.
But keeping the winning streak going into the new year is not Mack’s sole focus.
“I love winning, but some adversity is a good thing,” he said.
