{"id":22568,"date":"2019-01-03T12:29:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T17:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=22568"},"modified":"2019-01-10T12:46:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T17:46:04","slug":"hats-off-to-morgan-frost-at-world-junior-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/hats-off-to-morgan-frost-at-world-junior-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Hats off to Morgan Frost at World Junior Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n

A tip of the hat to one of Aurora\u2019s finest.
\nIt took just over 21 minutes of play in the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship for Dana Frost to make her way down to ice level at Vancouver\u2019s Rogers Arena and toss her red and white Team Canada hat onto the ice, a tribute to the hat trick just record by her son, Morgan. His father\u2019s hat, that of former Toronto Maple Leafs arena announcer Andy Frost, was not far behind.
\nIt was Frost who opened the scoring for Canada against the Danes in a heavily lopsided matchup, one which the red and white eventually won 14 \u2013 0. Left wide open behind the play in front of the Danish net, a turnover at the blue line led to plenty of time alone with the puck to deke Danish goaltender Mads Soegaard out of his drawers.
\nA setup to teammate Owen Tippett ensured a multipoint night for Frost just a short few minutes later, before a wrist shot from in close put Canada up 3 \u2013 0 with less than a minute remaining in the first period.
\nIt was at the 1:50 mark of the second period when the Frost family hats went flying, along with dozens more inside the Vancouver Canucks\u2019 home rink. Surprisingly, it was Frost\u2019s first three-goal night as a junior player.
\nDespite the heavy accolades, the future star remained modest when swarmed for a post-game media scrum.
\n\u201cI think I\u2019m definitely a playmaker, but it\u2019s nice to put the puck in the net once in a while,\u201d said Frost, who has never scored a hat trick in his 231-game OHL career. \u201c[There were] some great set-ups by my teammates, and fortunately they went in.\u201d
\nThe Aurora native, drafted 27th overall by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft, has slotted in at the second line on the Canadian forward regiment, along with WHLer Brett Leason and fellow Sault. Ste. Marie Greyhound Brett Hayton. Despite never stepping foot in the same rink as Leason before the tournament, the two combined for nine points in the opening night romping of Denmark.
\n\u201cThat was kind of our first full game together, with him, Hayton and I,\u201d said Frost. \u201cBarrett and I kind of read off each other, and Brett\u2019s a guy that can put the puck in the back of the net, so if we can find him in good areas, there\u2019s a good chance it\u2019s going to go in.\u201d
\nYet it was Frost who stole the show on a night when all but two names on the Canadian roster got onto the scoresheet, with the Canadian faithful chanting \u201cFrosty, Frosty, Frosty\u201d after his third goal, with a TSN camera pointed on a smiling mother as hundreds of thousands of Canadians watched on the broadcast.
\n\u201cI had chills,\u201d Frost told TSN in Canada after the victory. \u201cIt was just a crazy feeling the whole game. The fans chanting my name. That was just the coolest moment I\u2019ve ever been a part of.\u201d
\nAurora Mayor Tom Mrakas extended his congratulations to the nineteen-year old via Twitter, saying \u201cBig game by @Town_of_Aurora\u2019s own Morgan Frost,\u201d adding the hashtag #AuroraProud.
\nPlaying at almost a point-per-game pace in the OHL prior to his draft, the newly-drafted Frost upped his offensive game immensely in the 2017-18 season, putting up 112 points in 67 games to finish second in league scoring. He has amassed a whopping 256 points in his OHL career, playing at a 1.12 points per game pace.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A tip of the hat to one of Aurora\u2019s finest.
\nIt took just over 21 minutes of play in the 2019 IIHF World Junior Championship for Dana Frost to make her way down…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2019-01-03-09.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-5S0","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 01:18:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}