CARLYLE - Thirteen-year-old Myles Lequyer is a goaltender with the Carlyle U15 Cougars.
He wears jersey 26 and is a Grade 8 student through the Â鶹´«Ã½AV East Cornerstone Public School Division’s Cyber Stone virtual school.
Myles enjoys the game and remains poised and calm while playing the most stressful position in hockey.
“I feel I have a good glove hand and cover the net well. I think I have good technique and am a good skater.”
Myles’ parents are Dallas Lequyer and Colleen Getten. He has a younger sister Finnley, who is eight. The family has lived in Carlyle since 2012.
Colleen has been a goalie mom for nearly seven years and can truly relate to the pressure of her son’s position.
“It can be hard watching him out there at times, but the teammates that have become close friends, coaches, other hockey families we’ve met as well as the opportunities and successes he has had have outweighed any stress I might feel. Supporting him in doing something that he loves is what it’s all about,” she said.
Myles’ best friends on the team are his goaltending partner Rhett Lachapelle, and forwards Hunter Colpitts and Cayden Snell. He plays spring hockey with the Element Aces, box lacrosse, and enjoys golf in the summer.
He truly appreciates the support of his parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. The head coach of the team is his dad. Dallas’ assistant coaches are father Dean and cousin Branden. Lorelie Wyatt is the team manager.
“I really enjoy the game of hockey and like the thrill of competing. It is a great game to play and be a part of,” said Myles.
In Moose Mountain Minor Hockey League regular season play, the U15s finished with a 9-11-4 record, good for seventh place. They have been eliminated in league playoffs by the second place Milestone Flyers.
It is a different story in Hockey Sask. U15 B provincial playoffs. The team added six players from neighbouring towns to bolster their lineup. These include Owen Brown, Branson Hutt, Cayden Snell and Caden Dorrance, all who play with Oxbow, Cooper Pukas of the Estevan Bears and Peyton Tendler with the Estevan Wildcats.
The U15s have won three rounds of provincials and their south semi-final series with Maple Creek concluded this weekend. On Tuesday February 28th, the Cougars travelled to Maple Creek and Lequyer shut them out 1-0 with Cayden Snell scoring the only goal of the game. On Sunday, the Hawks came to Carlyle and scored with 30 seconds left to win game two 6-5. A ten-minute mini game was played immediately thereafter with Lequyer slamming the door again and winning 1-0. Tucker Wyatt scored the lone goal for the Cougars.
The Cougars have now advanced to the Provincial “B” Â鶹´«Ã½AV final and will be playing the Lumsden Lions. Game one will be played in Lumsden on Saturday March 11th at 1:30 p.m. Game two will be played in Carlyle Sunday March 12th at 3:30 p.m. A ten-minute mini game three, if necessary, will be played immediately after game two.
