{"id":23757,"date":"2019-05-09T18:59:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T22:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=23757"},"modified":"2019-05-09T18:59:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T22:59:12","slug":"ex-tiger-delmas-named-captain-of-niagara-purple-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/ex-tiger-delmas-named-captain-of-niagara-purple-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Tiger Delmas named captain of Niagara Purple Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By\nJake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest former\nTiger to lace up for the Purple Eagles will be leading his flock of NHL\nhopefuls onto the ice next season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noah Delmas was named\nthe captain of the Niagara Purple Eagles in a news conference held by the NCAA\nDivision I team last week, who compete in the prestigious Atlantic Hockey\nconference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are confident in\nNoah because has set the expectations of our team high as we continue to grow\nmen through hockey,\u201d said Purple Eagles head coach Jason Lammers in a press\nrelease. \u201cNoah embodies our mission as a person, student and player. His own\npersonal growth has been impressive and now he has the honor to lead others by\nputting \u2018we\u2019 ahead of \u2018me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Schomberg native\nspent his entire junior hockey career with the Junior A\nAurora Tigers, blooming in his second season in 2014-15 to become one of the\ntop offensive defenseman in the OJHL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After posting 42\npoints in 51 games with the Tigers that year, the blueliner earned a\nscholarship from the Niagara Univesity Purple Eagles, opting to stick close to\nhome to play Division I hockey in Lewiston, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPlaying Division 1\nhockey has always been a goal of mine,\u201d Delmas told The Auroran. \u201cNiagara is\nclose to home and provides a great education along with\na great hockey program. When Niagara showed interest, I\nknew that was where I wanted to play.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Delmas spent his\nminor hockey years with the York-Simcoe Express AAA system, nine in total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His fifteen assists\nin 35 games as a freshman led all Purple Eagles skaters, earning him the role\nof assistant captain last season. He once again led all Purple Eagles in assists\nas a junior this season, and finished fourth among all Division I blueliners in\nboth goals with fifteen and points with forty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Delmas said he was\n\u201cdeeply honoured\u201d to take over the captaincy, and to lead \u201csuch amazing\nplayers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m committed to doing\nwhat I can on and off the ice in order to make sure we have a successful year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Purple Eagles program has shown an affinity\ntowards Aurora in recent years, including putting Delmas on the ice with former\nTigers captain Robert Angiolella. 2014-15 Tigers leading scorer John Curran\nposted twenty points with the Eagles as a forward this season, while former\nTigers Drake Board and Matthew Bernard had commitments for the 2017-18 season,\nthough both fell through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest former Tiger to lace up for the Purple Eagles will be leading his flock of NHL hopefuls onto the ice next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-05-09-07.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23757","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=23757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}