Friday, May 6, 2011

On May 5th the WHL held it's annual bantam draft and Nathan was selected by the Regina Pats. Nathan was the fourth US born player selected and the first US goalie selected. Nathan had mixed emotions on this selection, as he was told he was going a lot higher, but thrilled on which team selected him. Interesting process indeed. The teams that called and spent hours on the phone with us did not select him and the team we talked to for 30 seconds did. lol. I heard from several teams that there was concern he was going to jump and play NTDP after next season in Ann Arbor. Regina is a great hockey city in the WHL.

WHL Showcase in Anaheim

We brought Nathan back to California for the WHL's US Prospects Showcase in Anaheim over Easter weekend. The first time all four of us have been together since Christmas!!!! Great times for the Churchills and Nathan came away with the Outstanding goalie award. 1 gaa against in 70 minutes was not a bad weekend of work!!! We even snuck in the kitchen table at Buca di Beppo to celebrate grandma Bibo's
BDay

Monday, January 24, 2011

Where he stands among the other goalies in the MWEHL.

Shut out leader with 4, second in wins with 10 and third in GAA at 1.79

1/24/11 Update from the Weekend

Nathan was in the net in the 5-3 win over Little Caesars on Saturday while Chicago Mission was outshot in this game. On Sunday, he came in midway thru the second in the 3-1 loss to bt and then turned around and shut out Victory Honda 3-0. On Sunday, Nathan stopped 27 of 27 shots between the 2 games.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

MVP Goalie Award for 2011 Silver Sticks Bantam Major

Click to read the article on the Championship game!!!!

Article on the Silver Sticks Championship Game

Chicago Mission Win the Bantam Major AAA Silver Sticks in Port Huron!!!!!!

Nathan's Chicago Mission team wins the 2011 Silver Sticks in Port Huron, Michigan. The team went 7-0 along the way scoring 33 and giving up 11. Nathan played in the quarter finals against the Long Island Gulls and allowed one goal on 18 shots for a 3-1 victory. He then was back in net in the finals against the St Louis Jr Blues. Nathan ended up stopping 24 of 26, but non more important than Ryan MacInnis' penalty shot in over time. Nathan was also named the MVP Goalie!!!!

Thursday, January 13, 2011

1/13/11

2011 Silver Sticks start today in Port Huron Michigan. Nathan and his Chicago Mission team open with the 96 Lambton Sting. Should be a good way to open the tournament, but you just never know in sports!!!! Pre-game pasta at Olive Garden and he should be good to go.

Video of Nathan against #1 Belle Tire

Nathan Churchill in net against Belle Tire

Monday, January 10, 2011

Silver Stick Schedule for this weekend

Rink       GS GT
028      Lambton Jr. Sting       Chicago Mission                     Thu, Jan 13                  6:15 pm           GP - American
057      Chicago Mission         Don Mills Flyers                     Fri, Jan 14                   10:50 am         McMorran Main
093      Buffalo Regals            Chicago Mission                     Fri, Jan 14                   4:30 pm           GP - Canadian
145      Chicago Mission         York Simcoe Express             Sat, Jan 15                   1:40 pm           GP - Canadian

Chicago Mission Defeats Chicago Fury 4-1 on 1-11

Nathan stopped 10 of 11 shots in this home game against cross town rival Fury. The mission won 2 against Fury to prepare them for next weekends upcoming Silver Sticks tournament in Port Huron Michigan.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

A few pictures from Labor Day in St Louis




9/26 Win Over Chicago Fury

Mission with an 8-0 win Over the Fury today. Nathan had the shutout with 14 saves today. A good way to start league play!!!

Saturday, August 7, 2010

The Boys

Nathan and Ian: Saying good bye to Nathan for the 2010-2011 Hockey Season

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Chicago Mission Bantam Major Roster for 2010-2011

8BAUGHMAN, ADAM01/03/1996

96  BJORK, ANDERSON   08/05/1996

19  BOOTH, MICHAEL       03/20/1996
30  CHURCHILL, NATHAN 04/17/1996

21  CONRAD, TRISTAN     01/29/1996

10  DVORAK, CHRISTIAN 02/02/1996

91  FITZGERALD, KEVIN   07/31/1996

61  JONES, TREY              10/16/1996

22  LAPOINTE, GUYOT    05/17/1996

88  LINHART, JACOB       01/17/1996

3   MALONE, SEAMUS     05/06/1996

27  MCLAUGHLIN, JAKE  03/26/1996

7    NARDELLA, ROBERT 04/22/1996

26  RADKE, ROY               12/10/1996

89   SCHMALTZ, NICK     02/23/1996

33  TISCHKE, PETER       01/03/1996

13  WAGNER, RYAN       04/15/1996

14  WOLF, MATTHEW   01/08/1996

   DODERO, CHRISTOPHER06/08/1996

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

MWEHL Goalie Leaders



Click and Check out the 96 goalies of the MWEHL.

National Rankings from myhockeyrankings.com 10/14/09

1 Belle Tire 96 AAA
2 St Louis Blues 96 AAA
3 Cleveland Barons 96 AAA
4 Team Illinois 96 AAA
5 Long Island Gulls 96 AAA
6 Chicago Mission 96 AAA
7 Little Caesars 96 AAA
8 Green Bay Jr Gamblers 96 AAA
9 Dallas Alliance Bulldogs 96 AAA
10 Providence Capitals 96 AAA
11 Team Massachusetts 96 AAA
12 Honeybaked 96 AAA
13 Team Comcast 96 AAA
14 Chicago Young Americans 96 AAA
15 Rochester Alliance 96 AAA
16 NPI Leafs 96 AAA
17 Pittsburgh Jr Penguins 96 AAA
18 Top Gun 96 AAA
19 TPH Thunder 96 AAA
20 Boston Jr Terriers 96 AAA

Pictures from the Weekend





MWEHL Showcase Weekend in Detroit 10/9-10/11

Belle Tire won all 5 games and Nathan went 3-0 in his starts allowing 1 goal over the weekend. It was the first time Christina had seen Nathan since we dropped him off. Great weekend for all!! Scores:
BT 7 CYA 0
BT 8 Fury 0
BT 8 Barons 1
BT 2 Chicago Mission 1
BT 8 TI 0

The boys opened up a 2 game lead in the 96aaa division of the MWEHL.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Winners at the 2009 Honeybaked Invitational!!!!

Belle Tire 96aaa team went undefeated in winning the 96aaa division at the 2009 Honeybaked Invitational. Belle Tire and Nathan shut out Chicago Mission 5-0 in the championship game. Nathan went 3-0 and allowed 1 goal all weekend!!




Thursday, September 10, 2009

St Louis Blues Labor Day Tournament 2009




Belle Tire 96AAA team won the Championship with a 6-5 double ot win over the St Louis Jr Blues. Awesome Game!

Round Robin Scores:

BT 6 Chicago Mission 0
BT 2 STL Blues 3
BT 5 Western Canadian All-Stars 4
BT 5 Rochester Alliance 3
BT 6 Team Illinois 2

Team Record 5-1

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Labor Day Schedule in St Louis

Friday Sept 4:

Chicago Mission @ Detroit Belle Tire @ 650pm

Saturday Sept 5:

Detroit Belle Tire @ St. Louis AAA Blues @ 1150am

Detroit Belle Tire @ Western All-Stars @ 530pm

Sunday Sept 6:

Rochester Alliance @ Detroit Belle Tire @ 950am

Detroit Belle Tire @ Team Illinois @ 440pm

Monday Sept 7:


Championship Game @ 930am

Nathan is in Detroit Now

We dropped Nathan off in Detroit on 8/16/09. Very tough day for Christina and I, but sometimes the hardest decisions are the best decisions. Nathan is living with the head coach's family (Joe Smaza) in Howell, Michigan and playing for Belle Tire's 96AAA team. School starts on September 8. Yes, after Labor Day!

Friday, July 3, 2009

Spring Summer Results

Challenge Cup in Vancouver with the Vancouver Vipers:

5-1 but came in 5th. 8gaa in 6 games.


West Coast Selects:

7th place in Sweden
3rd at Prospects(Toronto)
2nd at Ronald McDonald (Toronto)
1st at NAPS in Buffalo

Nathan had a Great Summer

Photos from Iceland and Sweden






Monday, April 6, 2009

Where it all started......




His squirt B team at TV Blue Devils and first season in goal.....

Photos from Nationals



Article from Youth Hockey Report

Belle Tire defeated the LA Selects 4-1 to earn a spot in the USA Hockey National Championship game at the Pee Wee Major level. Nathan Churchill did all he could in goal for LA to keep them in the game as he stopped 52 of 56 Belle Tire shots but Belle Tire was just to good. Peter Kessel, Marcel Godbout, Chris Brown and Jacob Turowski had the Belle Tire goals. Pat Newell had the lone LA goal. Belle Tire now waits for the winner of the St Louis vs. Rochester game to see who they will meet tomorrow for the Championship.

http://www.youthhockeyreport.com/Articles/nationalspwsemis040409

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

CBS Channel 5


Nathan was interviewd by Kim Coyle for an upcoming spot on the evening news. I will post when it is going to be on.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Regional Update




The LA Selects won the Pacific District Regionals. They beat the Kent Valley Elite 6-2 on Saturday and came back on Sunday with an 8-0 win over the Jr Kings. Nathan ended the weekend playing 8 periods with no goals against. Pretty good job!

Friday, March 6, 2009

Regionals

Day 1- Thursday May 5

LA Selects with a 11-2 win over Seattle. Good way to start the tournament. Nathan played the first half and left with a 7-0 lead.

Day 2- Friday May 6

LA Selects with a 5-1 win over the Jr Kings. Nathan left after 2 periods and a 4-0 lead. Boys are playing great and have a good shot at Nationals.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

California State Champs



The LA Selects defeated the Jr Kings 2 games to none in the best 2 0ut of 3. The scores were 7-0 and 4-1. Great effort by the boys! Off to Quebec on Thursday!!!

Saturday, January 31, 2009

California State Championships

State Championships are next weekend (Feb 6-8). The LA Selects have a best 2 out of 3 with the LA Jr Kings. We should take care of business in the first 2 games. That really isn't going out on a limb. The Jr Kings are mostly 97 birth year and will be an excellent team next year. Win or lose both teams will advance to the Pacific Regionals being held in Seattle Washington. We beat the Jr Kings 3-2 last weekend and we were without Coby and Evan. Makes it a little tougher without one of the top scorers and one of the top defensemen.

Quebec PeeWee World Championship Schedule


Here is the link to the schedule in Quebec:

http://www.tournoipee-wee.qc.ca/AALegare2009.htm
We open up with the New York Jr Islanders on Feb. 16.

Also, the games will be televised via the Internet. Here is the link to the main site:

http://www.tournoipee-wee.qc.ca/EN/index.html

Thursday, January 29, 2009


Nathan was on the air this morning with Lamont and Tonelli discussing his trip to Iceland and Sweden. Pretty funny. Michael Jackson asking where all the 12 year olds were was a hoot!!! Also, The Bone donated 2 tickets to the Heart concert in July at Konocti Harbor to be raffled off tonight.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

MLK Weekend in Arizona

The LA Selects were playing in the Lemieux Academy MLK Tournament over January 16-20. They did awesome!!!!
Results:
Game 1 1/16/09
LA Selects 6 Houston Hitmen 1 - Houston was a AA team and the game was pretty lopsided.

Game 2 1/16/09
LA Selects 3 Arizona Hockey Union 1 - The boys took them a bit lightly and the AZ bunch came ready to play. Escaped this one, but a good start to the tournament.

Game 3 1/17/09

LA Selects 3 Dallas Stars 3. We scored with 29 seconds left to tie. Great game, but I thought we could have been on the right side of this one.

Game 4 1/17/09

LA Selects 5 Colorado Thunderbirds 2. Probably the best played game of the year for the Selects. Nathan was big in this game.

Game 5 1/18/09

LA Selects 8 Alaska All Stars 2 Alaska was pretty beat up by this game.

Game 6 1/18/09

LA Selects 4 Lemieux Academy 2. This game was the one we all circled. LA dominated this game, as they ran out to a 4-0 lead. the boys were very excited and they have won 2 straight against the Lemieux boys. Good friends on the Lemieux team and they played hard.

Game 7 1/19/09 Championship Game

LA Selects 3 Colorado Thunderbirds 5 We ran out of gas and the Thunderbirds played a great game. Tough team to beat twice in the same weekend.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Games on 1/10 and 1/11

The LA Selects hosted the SJ Jr Sharks 96pwaa team this weekend in Lakewood. Little emotional for Nathan, I think, as this was his old team and friends. The LA Selects won on Saturday 5-3 (Nathan played the entire game) and they beat SJ 6-3 on Sunday. Nathan came in at the beginning of the second with the score 4-3. They were both good games, as the Jr Sharks are the #1 aa team in the country according to myhockeyrankings.com. The LA Selects head off to Arizona this weekend to play in the Lemieux Academy MLK Tournament. I will keep everyone posted!!!

Thursday, January 8, 2009

West Coast Selects Roster


West Coast Selects

Nathan was in Detroit, MI on January 1st trying out for the West Coast Selects. There were 60+ skaters and 8 goalies from across the US and the 3 western Candian provinces. Nathan was selected as one of the 2 goalies to represent the Selects this summer on the trips to Iceland, Sweden, Toronto, Montreal and Buffalo. If you can believe this, the other goalie was taller than Nathan!!!!