Port Moody’s Kent Johnson is hoping to guide his College of Michigan Wolverines hockey crew to a berth within the NCAA Frozen 4 championships, starting with the Midwest regional semifinal this Friday.
One other Port Moody hockey participant is getting an opportunity to win an NCAA championship.
Kent Johnson’s College of Michigan Wolverines will play defending champion Minnesota Duluth within the Midwest regional semifinal, to be performed Friday in Fargo, N.D. The winner advances to Saturday’s regional closing for a spot within the Frozen 4 championship match in Pittsburgh, Pa., April 8 to 10.
Michigan earned an at-large spot within the NCAA match after dropping in additional time to the College of Minnesota within the semifinals of Massive Ten convention championship.
Johnson, a freshman, completed the season with 27 factors in 26 video games. He was additionally one among three Wolverines to make the primary spherical of fan voting for the Hobey Baker award that annual to the highest participant in U.S. school hockey.
Johnson joined Michigan after two seasons with the Path Smoke Eaters within the BC Hockey League. Final 12 months, he led the league in scoring with 41 objectives and 101 factors. That was 30 factors than Christophe Tellier, of the Surrey Eagles, who completed second.
Johnson is projected to be a first-round decide on this summer time’s NHL entry draft with some prognosticators projecting him to be chosen as excessive as third general.
Final week, Port Moody’s Jenna Buglioni made it to the semifinal of the ladies’s Frozen 4 hockey championship, the place her Ohio State Buckeyes have been defeated 4-2 by the College of Wisconsin Badgers, the defending champions.
Johnson and Buglioni performed atom hockey collectively within the Port Moody Newbie Hockey Affiliation.