{"id":5205,"date":"2014-01-15T14:35:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T19:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=5205"},"modified":"2014-01-29T16:19:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T21:19:48","slug":"aurora-tiger-kevin-entmaa-named-ojhls-goalie-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-tiger-kevin-entmaa-named-ojhls-goalie-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Tiger Kevin Entmaa named OJHL\u2019s goalie of the month"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jeff Doner<\/strong><\/p>\n

After posting an impressive 5 \u2013 1 \u2013 0 record and two shutouts throughout the month of December, Aurora Tigers goalie Kevin Entmaa was announced by the OJHL as the goaltender of the month on Saturday.<\/p>\n

As one of Aurora\u2019s key players this season, Entmaa has provided a steady presence from the back end for the first place Tigers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt good,\u201d Entmaa said after finding out he was receiving the honour. \u201cI wasn\u2019t really expecting it for December there, I was actually thinking it might have come in November, but we kept winning and the team kept playing well and I stayed solid, so it just came out of it. It was pretty nice to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Entmaa was actually a runner-up for the award in November, but was edged out by Nathan Perry of the Cobourg Cougars.<\/p>\n

Entmaa has really blossomed in his third season with the club. He currently sits second in the league with 19 wins, first in goals against average at 2.05, has a top save percentage among starting goalies and has the most shutout wins (five) on the season.<\/p>\n

It was the first time Entmaa has received such an accolade at the Junior A level.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first season I was put on the second top prospect team but other than that this is pretty much my first personal award for my Junior A career, so it\u2019s pretty nice to win,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

His head coach, James Richmond, wasn\u2019t surprised Entmaa was the man who received the award for December.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe did nothing but earn it for December,\u201d Richmond said. \u201cHe was rock solid. I think he was 7 \u2013 1 in the month, great save percentage, good goals against. He\u2019s just playing great. I\u2019d like to go back and forth between the two goalies here, but when a guy gets on that type of roll, you\u2019ve got to keep going with him. Munroe stepped in last night and had a heck of game for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richmond has coached Entmaa since he joined the Tigers in 2011 and said he has noticed the growth of his goalie both on and off the ice.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a little bit more mature this year. He\u2019s just playing the position with a ton of confidence. I said to him last week in practice, \u2018nothing has changed in your set up or what you\u2019re doing, it\u2019s just your confidence.\u2019 He knows if he lets one in he can shut the door and he\u2019s knows that the team in front of him will score a few.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forward Calvin Higley also sang the praises of his teammate upon hearing the news.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been rock solid for us. Five shutouts this year\u2026that\u2019s amazing,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s good to have a guy back there like that and it\u2019s good to have [Andy] Munroe back there as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After posting an impressive 5 \u2013 1 \u2013 0 record and two shutouts throughout the month of December, Aurora Tigers goalie Kevin Entmaa was announced by the OJHL as the goaltender of the month on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-1lX","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 15:16:46","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\/5205","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=5205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}