High School Elite League

Shattuck-St. Mary’s, a prep school in Faribault, MN, won the 2008 Nike/Bauer National Invitational tournament with a 6-2 win over Minnesota Red.
 
Shattuck was in control from the start as Jean-Paul LaFontaine and Andrew O‘Leary scored first-period goals for a 2-0 lead. In a penalty-filled second period. James Polk and Brad Robbins scored power-play goals for Shattuck, as did Nate Schmidt for Minnesota. Sam Alfieri scored for Shattuck to make the lead 5-2. Jake Williams of Minnesota and Jason Clark of Shattuck exchanged third-period goals.
 
Goaltender Garrett Jensen of Shattuck made 25 saves to earn the win.
 
NIT 3^rd Place Game
 
Marshall Everson scored the go-ahead goal with 5:17 to play, then added an empty-netter to lead Minnesota White to a 4-2 win over Malmo, Sweden in the 3^rd place game of the Nike/Bauer National Invitational Tournament.
 
Minnesota outshot Malmo 52-25, but was shutout through two periods by Malmo goalie Alexander Bengtsson. Malmo scored just 40 seconds into the game when Linus Olman scored, and the lead grew to 2-0 in the second period on Axel Wemmenborn’s goal.
 
Minnesota finally broke through in the 3^rd when Edina Anders Lee scored on a power-play goal just 18 seconds in. Lee then assisted on Danny Delisle’s power-play goal, tying the score at 9:30 of the period.
 
Everson’s goal - also on a power play - gave him a tournament-leading five goals. The Harvard-bound forward then hit an empty net to complete the scoring.
 
Tournament Notes
 
Victor Ohman of Malmo, who had nine points in the tournament, is the son of team General Manager Roger Ohman, who was the 2^nd-round selection (#39 overall) of the Winnipeg Jets in the 1985 NHL draft.
 
More than 70 scouts and college coaches were in attendance over the weekend. Virtually every NHL team was represented - the Toronto Maple Leafs alone had three different scouts here over the weekend - and University of Minnesota coach Don Lucia and St. Cloud State’s Bob Motzko headed a list of colleges represented, including New Hampshire, Yale, Boston U, Michigan State, Princeton, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Air Force, Providence and Colorado College.
 
At least a dozen tournament players have already made college commitments, including future University of Minnesota Gophers Nick Bjugstad, Christian Isackson, Nick Leddy and Nate Schmidt. Others included Danny DeLisle (Minnesota-Duluth), Marshall Everson (Harvard), Derek Forbort (North Dakota), Danny Mattson (North Dakota), Tyler Pitlick (Minnesota State-Mankato) and Max Tardy (Minnesota-Duluth).
 
Anders Lee of Minnesota Red ended up as the leading scorer in the tournament, with 4 goal and 7 assists for 11 points. Bill Simon of Minnesota Red and Marshall Everson of Minnesota White tied for the tourney lead in goals with 5.
 
The wildest finish of the tournament came in the consolation game between Wisconsin and Michigan. Wisconsin held a 7-2 lead with 13 minutes left in the game, but found itself clinging to a 7-6 lead with 7:47 left. After Michigan nearly tied the game in the final minute, Wisconsin ended the comeback with an empty-net goal.
 

The championship gand 3rd-place games of the Nike/Bauer National Invitiational Tournament will be webcast live on Sunday, November 9 from New Hope Ice Arena.
 
Fans can log on to www.myfoxhockey.com and click on the "live stream" link to view the games. The 3rd place game will begin at 11:00 a.m., with the championship game scheduled for 1:00 p.m.