Ryan Nugent-Hopkins showed the impact that he can bring to a team, rallying Team White to a 5-4 win over Team Red at the National junior hockey team development camp in Edmonton Saturday.
Trailing 4-1 five minutes into the final period, Nugent-Hopkins finished off the comeback, tallying the game-winning goal between the pads of Louis Domingue in the final 20 seconds of the contest.
Three minutes earlier, Nugent-Hopkins, the No. 1 draft pick of the Edmonton Oilers, tied the game 4-4 at 16: 32 of the third period with a backhand shot that fooled Domingue.
A partisan crowd of 6,391 at Rexall Place were chanting Nugent-Hopkins' name at the end of the game.
"I've played here a bunch of times against the (Edmonton) Oil Kings. It's not my first time in the building, but it was definitely a good atmosphere," Nugent-Hopkins said in a Hockey Canada press release.
Team Red defeated Team White 8-2 in Fort MacMurray on Sunday.
Approximately 35 players from the camp will be invited to a final selection camp in December. From that group, 22 players will be chosen to represent Canada at the world junior championships in Edmonton.
