Six Nations Ironmen take top honours at Gatineau hockey tournament

The Six Nations Ironmen won the Eastern Warm-Up hockey tournament on Sunday in Gatineau, Que.

By Sam Laskaris Writer The Six Nations Ironmen will enter a national tournament next month on a bit of a high. The local hockey squad is one of 40 men’s teams that will participate in the Fred Sasakamoose Chief Thunderstick National Hockey Championship. The tournament will be held May 15-18 in Saskatoon. Organizers of the national tourney also staged a 10-team Eastern Warm-Up event, which concluded on Sunday in Gatineau, Que. The Ironmen did not get off to a good start in the double-knockout tourney, losing to a Quebec-based squad called Shakash on Friday. That meant the Six Nations club would be eliminated if it suffered another loss in the event. But as it turned out, the Ironmen registered five consecutive victories, four of those on Sunday, to be crowned…

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