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...Horton, Hozack, and Dea also learned to skate on Edmonton's outdoor rinks but these days there is a much more highly organized junior program...
...Hozack and Horton were teammates for a season on a midget league team in the Southside Athletic Club Conference, one of four Metropolitan conferences. Dea, who lives on the other side of town in a hockey hotbed by the name of Rio Terrace, played against his current linemates while a member of the Knights of Columbus spurs, another midget team...
...unlike Horton and Hozack, went on to play junior hockey with the Spruce Grove Mets. His team won the Canadian Junior Championship and received the Centennial Cup for its efforts. Spruce Grove beat a squad from Guelph. Ontario for the championship after a 60 game regular season and a 40 game playoff grind that stretched from September...
...Hozack, the Edmonton Express' senior center who Dea describes as "really cute with the puck," decided to come to Harvard without any outside prodding. He doesn't regret his departure from the high-pressured hockey of his hometown, as he says that in Edmonton "You're really aware of what's happening in Junior hockey. That's where the struggle to make it is. There are a lot of guys all around you who are trying to make it and don't produce. When you see that kind of thing it doesn't make a good impression...
What makes Hozack's line produce is that Horton and Dea, who learned their aggressive forechecking way back in midget league, are able to dig in the corners and get the puck to him. The result of such a combination is very often a picture-perfect goal and a roar of appreciation in Waston Rink or Boston Garden that might make the Edmonton Express remember the roar of the Canadian Pacific Railroad as it crosses the lonely prairies of Alberta...