Preds still sticking together at awards banquet
As is the case at this time every year, the Prince Albert Predators junior lacrosse team held their awards banquet at Kachur’s Golf Course on Wednesday. But this was the first time Tyson Fetch ran the ceremonies as the Preds’ head coach.
Fetch joked during the celebration that he fell into the role, after replacing Darryl Frenette after he joined the coaching staff for the Saskatchewan Junior A squad. But despite the new faces behind the bench and the rookie-filled roster, the cohesion of the team kept everything glued together.
During his opening remarks, Fetch recalled the last road trip of the season. He and the rest of the coaches were delivering pizzas up to the players in their hotel rooms one evening, and figured they’d had to visit each room to get send the pies in. But to their surprise, all 20 players were crammed into one room to spend their final weekend as a team together– literally and figuratively.
“That was easy to deliver their pizzas,” Fetch said. “It really was a cohesive group of people. It started with our leadership I think, there was no divide among them. There usually is some sort of divide, I don’t know what it was before. This year, it really did translate well on the floor. They looked out for each other.”