Owen Sidel scored the game-winning goal in overtime to give the Burnaby Winter Club Bruins its second consecutive tournament win in Medicine Hat.
Sidel's timely counter gave the winter club a 2-1 victory over the Calgary Bisons in the championship final of the 40th annual Hounds major bantam hockey tournament on Nov. 18.
Sidel came out of the left corner with the puck and jammed it past the Calgary keeper for the winner at 4: 03 of extra time.
Burnaby led the contest up until the final 8.6 seconds of the game on Matt Barberis' second-period marker.
Calgary sent the game into OT after capitalizing on a bad line change at the blueline with its goalie out for a sixth attacker.
The Medicine Hat tournament is one of the season's most highly regarded tournaments with top teams from Alberta and Saskatchewan taking part.
"The competition is really good. We love going there and playing the top teams," said winter club head coach John Batchelor.
Earlier in the season, the Bruins lost in the semifinals at the annual Chilliwack bantam tournament.
The winter club will also compete at the annual John Reid memorial tournament in St. Albert, Alta. in mid-January, where the Bruins made it to the semifinals last season.
"We use (the tournaments) more to see where we are and what we have to work on," Batchelor said.
For the bantam Bruins, that means peaking for the prize that awaits at the end of hockey season.
"Our expectations are high again," said Batchelor. "We start out the season with the goal of getting to the Western Canadians, and we know it's going to be difficult this time, especially for a third time."
The Bruins will be taking this Christmas season off because of a gruelling month of December schedule that will see the two-time defending Western Canadian champions playing 12 games in 22 days.
That means that Burnaby Winter Club squad will miss the 50th annual Burnaby Minor AAA bantam tournament for a second straight year after winning in 2010 in a shootout.
