{"id":2607,"date":"2013-02-06T18:10:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T23:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2013-02-06T18:10:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T23:10:18","slug":"allenby-young-lions-roar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/allenby-young-lions-roar\/","title":{"rendered":"Allenby Young Lions Roar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They started out as Young Simbas, but by the end of the tournament, they<br \/>\nwere the Lion Kings. With just 2 exhibition games to help them get ready,<br \/>\nthe Young Lions took to the ice on Thursday January 24 and Friday January 25<br \/>\nto compete against 7 other public school teams. Made up of a combination of<br \/>\nGrade 6s and 5s, many of whom have never played with one another, the boys<br \/>\nwere pitted against 3 tough teams (Bedford Park, Rolph Road, John Wanless<br \/>\nGrade 6) in their round robin games. Looking like they&#8217;ve played together<br \/>\nfor a while, they did what they had to do and ended up winning their<br \/>\ndivision, putting them in the tournament final vs Brown.<\/p>\n<p>As they readied for the championship game, the Young Lions heeded the words<br \/>\nof The Great One put forth by Coaches Gross, Grossman and Nuttall (sounds<br \/>\nlike a law firm!): &#8220;Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each<br \/>\nand every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be<br \/>\nsuccessful.&#8221; As they did in all of their games, the team played hard, played<br \/>\nstrong two way hockey, and never gave up. Down 2-0, the boys stormed back<br \/>\nwith 2 quick ones toward the end of the 2nd period. Trailing 3-2 with little<br \/>\ntime left, the boys executed a perfect pulling of the goalie and scored the<br \/>\ngame-tying goal &#8211; with just 3 seconds left. You could not have written a<br \/>\nmore exciting ending. Unfortunately, the boys lost a heartbreaker in OT with<br \/>\n1 minute left, but there were no tears &#8211; this was a hard fought game and a<br \/>\nthrilling one at that, and the boys were proud of their showing.<\/p>\n<p>PSY may have Gangnam style but the Young Lions impressed with their own<br \/>\nversion of &#8220;Allenby-Style&#8221; hockey. Congratulations to Jayden Andrews, Kaidan<br \/>\nAng, Jake Austin, Ben Chan, Caleb\tCho, Lucas Chua, Ethan Forster, Jack<br \/>\nGoldstein, Ryan Gross, Cole Grossman, Connor Hicks, Luke Jansen-Faught, Eric<br \/>\nKerbel, Tyson Lowe, Max\tNuttall, Chris Power, Ben Rowatt, Eli Trestan and<br \/>\nDylan Wagman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AllenbyLions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2604\" title=\"AllenbyLions\" src=\"http:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AllenbyLions.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AllenbyLions.png 800w, \/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AllenbyLions-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They started out as Young Simbas, but by the end of the tournament, they were the Lion Kings. With just 2 exhibition games to help them get ready, the Young Lions took to the ice on Thursday January 24 and Friday January 25 to compete against 7 other public school teams. Made up of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-hockey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}