For the second straight year Edge School have been crowned Canadian Sport School Hockey League (CSSHL) U18 Prep Western Champions.
Edge defeated the first place Northern Alberta Xtreme (NAX) 3-2 in overtime to complete the repeat.
Owen Cooper opened the scoring 4:19 into the first, burying a rebound from the slot on Jordan Switzer (37/40). Defenseman Landon DuPont, who tied the U18 Prep single postseason point total with 15, then set-up Cruz Pavao who buried a shot glove side as Edge led 2-0 11:34 in.
Ryan Richardson got NAX on the board with 27 seconds left in the period as a seeing-eye shot found the back of the net from the point, beating Ryley Budd (33/35) blocker side.
After a scoreless second, Jager Gugyelka tied the game 2:37 into the third as a point shot through a screen was once again the answer for NAX.
The game would eventually head to OT where a Pavao pass off the rush allowed Luke Vlooswyk to one-time home the game winning goal.
Edge School won the first four CSSHL U18 Prep Western Championships from 2010-13. They would win again in 2017 before their most recent back-to-back Championships in 2023 and 2024. Overall the program now has nine CSSHL Western Championships.
