{"id":35622,"date":"2018-11-13T15:58:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T20:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.westmount.org\/?p=35622"},"modified":"2018-11-14T10:52:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T15:52:51","slug":"westmount-hosts-successful-2018-sal-grasso-friendship-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.westmount.org\/en\/westmount-hosts-successful-2018-sal-grasso-friendship-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Westmount hosts successful 2018 Sal Grasso Friendship Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From November 9th to 11th, the WRC was overflowing with enthusiastic hockey players, coaches and family members as Westmount hosted the annual Sal Grasso Friendship Tournament, a long-standing hockey exchange in partnership with the Cape Ann Youth Hockey Association in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>From the opening ceremony Friday afternoon \u2013 complete with national anthems and flag bearers \u2013 to Sunday\u2019s farewells, friendship did indeed prevail on the rinks and off, as 24 hockey teams played their favourite game, cheered on their colleagues, and shared meals. The sportsmanship carried over to the WRC\u2019s popular foosball table, resulting in an impromptu off-rink tournament. Various other social events took place over the weekend, including a Saturday evening gathering for Peewee teams at the home of one of the Westmount players.<\/p>\n<p>Although the coaches\u2019 hockey game went to Cape Ann, Westmount was the overall winner of the 2018 tournament, earning the right to display the trophy at the WRC until its teams visit Gloucester, Mass. next fall.<\/p>\n<p>Our city\u2019s collaboration with Cape Ann began in 1987 when CAYH coach Sal Grasso paid for a bus to give his young players the experience of traveling to play hockey games in Montreal. Following his death in 2006, the tournament was re-named in his honour.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the very dedicated team at the City\u2019s Sports &amp; Recreation for organizing a fun and flawless event. A special thanks to staff members Andrew Maislin, Michelle Dodds, Jennifer Heaps, Matthew Lawton, Jessie Zhou, Claude Danis, Bruce Stacey, Dave Lapointe and others for their months of planning, not to mention their many hours at the WRC looking after every last detail and creating an unforgettable experience for the hockey community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35629\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.westmount.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/salgrasso_pict4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.westmount.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/salgrasso_pict4.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www2.westmount.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/salgrasso_pict4-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.westmount.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/salgrasso_pict4-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.westmount.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/salgrasso_pict4-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From November 9th to 11th, the WRC was overflowing with enthusiastic hockey players, coaches and family members as Westmount hosted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":35624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6299,6368],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Westmount hosts successful 2018 Sal Grasso Friendship Tournament - City of Westmount<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Westmount hosts successful 2018 Sal Grasso Friendship Tournament - City of Westmount\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From November 9th to 11th, the WRC was overflowing with enthusiastic hockey players, coaches and family members as Westmount hosted\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www2.westmount.org\/en\/westmount-hosts-successful-2018-sal-grasso-friendship-tournament\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"City of Westmount\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/villedewestmount\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-11-13T20:58:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-11-14T15:52:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www2.westmount.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/salgrasso_puck_exchange.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"847\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"sebastian\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@VilleWestmount\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@VilleWestmount\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sebastian\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www2.westmount.org\/en\/westmount-hosts-successful-2018-sal-grasso-friendship-tournament\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www2.westmount.org\/en\/westmount-hosts-successful-2018-sal-grasso-friendship-tournament\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"sebastian\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www2.westmount.org\/#\/schema\/person\/7da69433d5d0e0a109bf8c3090bba6f3\"},\"headline\":\"Westmount hosts successful 2018 Sal Grasso Friendship Tournament\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-11-13T20:58:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-11-14T15:52:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www2.westmount.org\/en\/westmount-hosts-successful-2018-sal-grasso-friendship-tournament\/\"},\"wordCount\":283,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www2.westmount.org\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"News\",\"Sports &amp; 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