SUPERIOR INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE
SIJHL MEDIA UPDATE
Release Date: Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015
Lakers’ D-man Minerva named SIJHL Gongshow Gear performer of the month for November
THUNDER BAY, Ont. – The Superior International Junior Hockey League announced Tuesday that Fort Frances Lakers defenceman Nick Minerva has been named the Gongshow Gear Inc. performer of the month award recipient for November.
In seven games last month the Lakers assistant captain had points in six of them recording a goal and 10 assists for 11 points helping first place Fort Frances go 5-1-1 and raise their overall record to a SIJHL-best 17-3-1.
The 19-year-old native of New Brunswick, N.J., also had the deciding tally in a lengthy shootout win vs. the Dryden GM Ice Dogs back on Nov. 12.
On the season, Minerva tops all league blueliners in point-per-game average at 1.50 while sitting tied for second in offensive production among SIJHL D-men with 20 points on five markers and 15 helpers.
A three-year SIJHL veteran, Minerva has 71 points to his credit in 108 career league games having scored 23 times and helped set-up 48 others.
For his efforts, Minerva will receive a prize pack courtesy of Gongshow Gear, the official lifestyle hockey apparel of the SIJHL.
Also earning consideration for the SIJHL’s Gongshow Gear performer of the month award was Derek McPhail, (F) Dryden GM Ice Dogs; Alex Maticic, (F) English River Miners; Riley Corbin, (G) Thunder Bay North Stars and Alex Arnold, (F) Minnesota Iron Rangers.
ABOUT GONGSHOW GEAR INC.
Founded in 2002 by three teammates in the Central Junior “A” Hockey League after identifying the need for a hockey apparel brand that would accurately represent the exciting and exclusive lifestyle that hockey players live. Gongshow was the first Lifestyle Hockey Apparel brand in the world to hit the market in 2002, and this game changing company has since grown into the largest hockey lifestyle clothing brand in the world – selling in over 500 retail locations, in 15 countries internationally, and has hailed comparisons to such pioneering lifestyle brands as Billabong (Surfing Lifestyle), and Burton (Snowboarding Lifestyle).
COMPANY PROFILE
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Gongshow Gear performer of the month recipients
October: Landon Matechuk, (F) English River Miners (Includes first two weeks of league play in September)
November: Nick Minerva, (D) Fort Frances Lakers