Frontenacs' Shane Wright scoring at under-17 tournament
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Published on: November 7, 2019 | Last Updated: November 7, 2019 6:44 PM EST
Kingston Frontenacs rookie forward Shane Wright. (Ian MacAlpine/The Whig-Standard) Ian MacAlpine / Ian MacAlpine/Kingston Whig-Standard/Postmedia Network
Kingston Frontenacs centre Shane Wright seems to be scoring with regularity playing for Canada Black at the 2019 Under-17 Hockey Challenge this week in Medicine Hat, Alta., and Swift Current, Sask.
Wright, who was selected captain of Canada Black prior to the eight-team international tournament, is currently third in points, with five, and third in goals, with four, in three games.
Canada Black is undefeated, with two overtime wins and a shootout win. It finished second in Group A, one point behind the United States.
At the tournament, teams are awarded three points for a regulation win, two points for an overtime or shootout win, and one point for a loss in overtime or a shootout.
In Wright's first game on Saturday, he scored a hat trick, including the overtime winner, in Canada Black's 6-5 win over Canada White.
On Monday, he was held off the scoresheet in regulation and overtime but scored the shootout winner in a 5-4 decision over the Czech Republic, and on Tuesday he scored a goal in Canada Black's win over the United States.
Wright has been reunited on Canada Black with former Don Mills Flyers teammates Brennan Othmann, now with the Flint Firebirds, and Brandt Clarke of the Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League.
They were to play Russia in a quarter-final crossover game in Medicine Hat on Thursday evening.
Frontenacs head coach Kurtis Foster is assisting Martin Laperriere, an associate coach of the Quebec Remparts of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, with Canada Red in Group B.
Canada Red is in second place in its group with two regulation wins and a loss, and is to play Canada White on Thursday evening in the quarter-finals.
Both Wright and Foster are expected back for Kingston's game with the Rangers in Kitchener on Friday, Nov. 15.
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