The 2010 Sea Dogs Irving Oil Skills Competition was staged at Harbour Station on Monday night, with hundreds of spectators being treated to a highly-entertaining exhibition of hockey-related skill challenges.

After the speed skating, agility skating, accuracy shooting, and measured-speed shooting showdowns were staged, Team White owned a 4-3 advantage with several of the events being decided by extremely-thin margins. Team Blue pulled ahead in the decisive shootout segment of the competition, netting three goals to their opponents’ zero in capturing a 6-4 victory in the fun-filled event.

The full roster for Team Blue and the events in which each individual partook in can be found below:

Team Blue
Nathan Beaulieu – Accuracy Shooting, Agility Skating
Pierre Durepos – Fastest Skater, Accuracy Shooting
Kevin Gagné – Fastest Skater, Hardest Shot
Jonathan Huberdeau – Fastest Skater, Hardest Shot, Shootout
Mike Hoffman – Accuracy Shooting, Agility Skating, Shootout
Will Johnston - Hardest Shot
Tomas Jurco – Agility Skating, Hardest Shot, Shootout
Michael Kirkpatrick – Accuracy Shooting, Agility Skating, Shootout
Stephen MacAulay – Fastest Skater
Christian Morin – Fastest Skater, Accuracy Shooting
Zack Phillips – Agility Skating, Hardest Shot, Shootout

Individual winners from the 2010 Irving Oil Skills Competition are listed below:

Hardest Shot: Yann Sauvé – 94 mph
Most Accurate Shooter: Mike Thomas – 4/4 on targets
Fastest Skater: Nicholas Pard – 15.0 seconds
Breakaway Challenge: Tomas Jurco (awarded by audience applause)

NOTE: Sauvé reached 97 mph on a bonus shot which didn’t officially count.