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Rookie of the Year award for Surrey’s high-scoring MacGillivray, with Delta Ice Hawks

Pacific Junior Hockey League announces award winners as playoffs continue
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Dalton MacGillivray in action with Delta Ice Hawks. (Photo: deltaicehawks.com)

Surrey’s Dalton MacGillivray is the Pacific Junior Hockey League’s Rookie of the Year.

The Cloverdale-raised forward scored 30 goals for Delta Ice Hawks this season. He added 40 assists in 36 games played, for 70 points on the season.

In the first round of playoffs against Richmond Sockeyes, MacGillivray added two goals and four assists during a seven-game series won by Delta.

Listed at five-foot-nine, the left-shot forward, 17, has brought offensive skills and an abrasive, high-tempo playing style to the Ice Hawks this season.

Next hockey season, MacGillivray has committed to the BCHL’s Chilliwack Chiefs, and has this season dressed for some games with the Valley team, as a call-up.

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On Thursday (March 3), Ice Hawks’ Carson Hemenway was named Best Defenseman by the PJHL, after the Ladner-raised, 2000-born player scored 51 points in 34 games this season.

Delta Ice Hawks now battle White Rock Whalers in one PJHL conference final, after the Whalers took down North Vancouver Wolf Pack in a six-game playoff series.

The series starts Saturday, March 5 at White Rock’s Centennial Arena, starting at 7:30 p.m., followed by games at Ladner Leisure Centre on Tuesday and Wednesday (March 8-9) and back at Centennial on Saturday, March 12. The “if needed” games for the playoff series are scheduled for March 13 at LLC, March 15 at Centennial and March 16 back in Ladner.

The junior ‘B’ league’s other conference final has Langley Trappers playing Ridge Meadows Flames. Schedules are posted to pjhl.net.

Meantime, other PJHL award winners this season include Mission Outlaws’ Brayden Stewart (most improved), the Flames’ Jack Steffans (most sportsmanlike) and the Sockeyes’ Easton Elmer (most inspirational).



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