The 14th annual Scotty Bowman Showcase took place on March 22 at KeyBank Center in Buffalo and seven area high school hockey players were chosen to represent the Rochester area.
The Scotty Bowman Showcase consists of all-star hockey games between high school-aged players from the Buffalo and Rochester areas.
The first game featured high school juniors from the two cities facing off against one another for the Tim Horton Memorial Cup.
Hilton forwards Sam DiPasquale and Nate Higgins with goaltender Mason Burdick plus Churchville-Chili defenseman Matt Kotsch were along the junior roster.
DiPasquale finished the 2017-18 season second on the Cadets in goals (9) and third in points (16) while Higgins more than doubled his goals and points totals from his sophomore campaign and led the team in both categories with ten and 22 respectively.
Burdick won five games with a 2.42 goals against average and the Saints’ Kotsch tied for the team lead with a career-high 18 assists and was the top scoring blue-liner with 19 points.
The second game pitted high school seniors from each city vying for the Scotty Bowman Cup, named after the legendary Scotty Bowman, the winningest coach in NHL history. Bowman was in attendance to present the Bowman Cup to the victorious senior team.
Brockport’s Andrew Harley was selected for the squad after he led the league in scoring with 40 goals and 71 points in just 20 games.
He was joined on the senior roster by Churchville-Chili forwards Jordan Alves and Zachary Olsen. Alves scored eight goals and had 21 points for the Saints this past year while Olsen tied for the team lead with 15 goals and was third in scoring with 24 points.
