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Jordi Green is seen making a save for King’s-Edgehill School during a game against Bishops College School earlier this season.
The season wasn’t always easy — at times, in fact, it was downright frustrating.
Those tough results never affected the 17-year-old goaltender’s passion for the game, however. As soon as his classes end around the middle of next month, he’ll return home to Stephenville and hopefully hit the ice.
About a month or so after that, he’ll be on a plane to the Jay Peak Resort in Vermont to take part in the Hockey Opportunities for All (HOA) summer camp and showcase for high school-aged players.
After that — and maybe even depending on how it goes — he’ll decide whether he’ll return to his prep school in the fall, stay home, or go somewhere else entirely.
“I’m still looking at different things,” he said. “I still haven’t got a final decision made yet on anything.”
If the purpose of playing at King’s-Edgehill for the past two years was to experience a greater skill level of hockey, that mission was accomplished.
Serving as the one of the goalies for a weaker club, Green and his counterpart Jacob Evans both saw their share of rubber throughout the course of a game. Green had a 1-8-2 record in 11 games on the season, with a 4.93 goals against average. Evans was 1-8-3, posting a 4.10 GAA. The team itself was 3-19-6 for 12 points in the Prep School Hockey Federation and went into the end-of-year playoff tournament as distinct underdogs.
Then, they scored a huge victory over second-seeded Everest Academy and suddenly a berth in the semifinals was only a point away. The eight league teams were divided into two pools, with the top team teams advancing to the final four.
Though Evans had earned the win, Green started in net in the next game, but unfortunately fell 5-1 to Le Sommet International Academy. Evans was back in game for the third game, a 3-3 tie against Rothesay Netherwood School to send them into the semis.
A third goalie, Liam Hogan, started the game for King’s-Edgehill in a 5-2 loss to eventual-champion Newbridge Academy.
Green and his teammates then competed at the National Independent School Invitational Championship, where Green was impressive in goal despite a 3-1 defeat in one game in which his team was outshot 24-8.
“It was a really good way to finish,” the five-foot-10, 165-pound Green said.
The goal of going away, more than wins and losses, after all, was to improve his own game and face as many shots as possible. In that regard, toiling for a relative bottom-feeder was a best-case scenario.
Jumping straight from bantam here at home into games against guys three and four years older has Green believing his game has jumped to a higher level in the two years he’s been away.
“It was a challenge, but I figured it out and did pretty well with it,” he said.
