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Team Canada’s Trent Gaudon poses for a photo with girlfriend Nellie Godinho of Toronto after winning the bronze medal in the Masters division in Montreal over the weekend.
The 28-year-old Port au Port native helped Team Canada secure the bronze medal in the Masters Division at the 2016 World Ball Hockey Championship — the Alexandre Burrows Cup — in Montreal over the weekend.
Team Canada, with Gaudon collecting six goals and four assists in six games, registered a 12-4 win over Italy to claim the bronze medal in the showcase of 3 vs 3 hockey on the global stage.
Team Canada, with a 2-2 round-robin record, had to settle for a showdown for bronze after a 12-5 defeat at the hands of Slovakia in the semifinal round.
“It’s awesome. A great feeling,” Gaudon said of representing his country on the world stage.
Gaudon plays every game for the special people in his life.
He wears No. 14 on his jersey in memory of his brother Nick who died in 2005 so he was certainly thinking about his brother and his parents Cliff and Isabel with a bronze medal dangling around his neck.
Gaudon grew up with a hockey stick in his hand. He started playing ice hockey at the age of four and embraced ball hockey when he got to high school.
Like so many other Newfoundlanders, Gaudon had to pull up stakes and head to the mainland to find gainful employment. He moved to Toronto in 1999 and started his own plumbing company and began playing ball hockey at both the Tier 1 and Tier 2 level with hopes of playing for his country some day.
Being able to play for Canada was a proud moment for him. He was happy to play a role in helping the team win a medal on home soil.
He’s now focused on seeing if he can win a medal of a different colour after being asked to join Team Canada for next year’s championship event in the Czech Republic.
“We’re going for gold next year,” he said.
