The Maritime Cup in Saint John, NB this weekend started with 19 Major Bantam teams across the Maritimes vying for the tournament championship. 

Your Hurricanes started their preliminary round on Friday morning with a contest against the Dieppe Flyers.  From start to finish, a solid performance over the Dieppe squad resulted in a 9 - 0 win.  Game two came later that afternoon against the Charlottetown Abbies and with another solid effort from everyone, your Hurricanes came out with a 9 - 1 victory.  Day 1 ended with the guys deserving of the two wins and some good rest to get ready for more battles on Saturday.

With a good nights sleep, Game 3 had the Fredericton Capitals up next as opponents in afternoon play.  With a shot count of 59 - 8 in favour of the Hurricanes squad, a 3 - 0 shutout victory gave us an undefeated record in the preliminary round.  Besides the 3 wins, the teams goals for of 21 and only 1 against qualified the team as the # 1 seed out of the 8 seeds that qualified for the quarterfinals on Saturday evening.  In the quarterfinals, your Hurricanes faced the Truro Bearcats and won 3 - 1, earning a berth in the final four semi finals on Sunday morning

Semi final sunday morning had your Hurricanes facing the Bay Gulls while Halifax faced the Saint John Seadogs in the other semi final.

Despite Hurricane players outshooting the Gulls by a solid margin, having numerous quality scoring chances and working hard all game, the Bay Gulls came out with a 2 - 1 Overtime victory over your Hurricanes. 

Saint John ended up defeating the Bay Gulls in the Championship final by a score of 3 - 2.

Tournament summary:
- 4 wins & 1 overtime loss
- 25 goals for & 4 against
- Game MVP recipients: Matt Barron, Keith Getson, Christopher Goreham, Logan Walters and Colby Muise
- Great two way play and battle level by all 19 players.

GO HURRICANES !!