By Justin Seward

Lethbridge Herald

The Lethbridge Hurricanes U18AAA hockey team start a new season today knowing with the inexperience they have that wins will have to be earned through hard work this season.

“It’ll be a much older team than it was last year,” said Kevin Higo, U18AAA head coach.

“Last year we had seven 15-year-olds, which is really rare for this level. This year we’ll only have three but like I said we only have four players that have U18AAA experience. So even though we have a big group of 17-year-olds, (a) majority of them will be first year at this level.”

Higo sees players having to adjust to the speed and strength of the U18 level.

“It’s just going to be an adjustment and one of the things we talked about with the group was they have to respect the level tha

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