All students win at Paul Nelson Memorial game

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.