The 2025 Christmas Classic Battle of the Brothers Division is in the books and most importantly 3600 pounds of non-perishable food are on the shelves of the Open Arms Mission’s Food Bank. No other league is touching our generosity and ability to play a super compact tournament in seven hours, which only gives us the chance to get back to our sponsor the Rex Hotel for more Pizza after the tourney.

Congrats to Cooks Mills Cougars the 2025 WNHL Christmas Classic Champs who beat out the Stack Brothers in an epic game that was tied coming out of the regulation and OT and settled by Nicky Villela in the Shootout. It was one of the most entertaining Championship Games in Christmas Classic history.

Thanks to the players and fans that donated on November 29th as the rink was a buzz with excitement and the smell of rolling hot dogs and hockey gear carried through the rafters of the 60 year old barn! No better way to kick off the holidays for these well-tuned athletes.

All eyes will be on Jack Ballantyne Memorial Arena on Saturday November 29th for the WNHL Christmas Classic – Battle of the Brothers Edition. Where the Stack, Bhan, Bosak and Beadle Brothers have combined forces to create amazing teams. The battle will be the Youth Arean to face off on the ice and with generosity of non-perishable Food Items for Open Arms Mission of Welland. Each team is guaranteed 3 games to battle it out for the most points. The first tie breaker is weight of donated foods of each team. When you show up to the tournament your team will have its donated food weighted, any fans that come to see you can bring food in your team’s name to help with the total weight in for your team. We hope to break our record of 5210 pounds of food set in 2022.

Every player is encouraged to bring as much as non-perishable food items for Open Arms Mission to help with the Food Weight. Which will be your first tiebreaker. No Beverages allowed to be donated. If you have fans of your team dropping off food for your team, make sure they do it before 3pm and have them report the team name to the registration desk in the lobby.

Here is how the tournament works:

Every team is guaranteed 3 games 3 – 10-minute Run time periods. The last two minutes of each period and penalties will be stop-time.

After each round robin game there will be a 3-shooter shootout where the opponent selects the shooters for the opposite team. The winner of the shootout will get one point in the standing. If there is no winner after 3 shooters no points will be awarded to either team.

After the round robin, the top two teams will play in the Championship Game for glory of being WNHL Christmas Classic Champions

Teams score points in the standings by winning periods (1), Game Ties (1), Game Wins (3) and shoutout wins (1)

Example #1 – if a team wins all three periods and the shootout the team will receive 7 points in the standings

Example #2 – if a team wins one period and ties the game and loses the shootout they will receive 2 points.

Tiebreakers go in this order, Donated Food Weight, Head to Head, Goals Against, and Goals for

What you get as a Team/Participant

Friendship, Fun and the sense of helping people less fortunate than you during the Holiday Season.

Each team gets 60 Ice cold beers in their locker room for enjoyment during the tournament (yes you will need to bring more to embrace true Holiday/Hockey Spirit Levels)

5pm a party tray of pizza is delivered to your changeroom for carbo-loading.

3 games and hopefully 4 of hockey magic

The Championship Team gets WNHL Christmas Classic Hats from Presstime Design in Welland

Post Game Pizza Party at the Rex Hotel

2025 WNHL Christmas Classic Schedule – Battle of Brothers Edition

Cooks Mills Cougars (Bhan Brothers) – White Jerseys

Welland Wings (Beadle Brothers) – Orange Jerseys (Provided)

Canal Bank Robbers (Stack Brothers) – Black Jerseys

Liqour Beavers (Bosak Brothers – Yellow Jerseys (Provided)

Time
2pm	Cooks Mills Cougars	Welland Wings
3pm	Canal Bank Robbers	Liqour Beavers
4pm	Liqour Beavers	Welland Wings
5pm	Cooks Mills Cougars	Canal Bank Robbers
6pm	Liqour Beavers	Cooks Mills Cougars
7pm	Welland Wings	Canal Bank Robbers
8pm	Championship Game	Championship Game

Thanks to everyone who donated for the 2nd WNHL Super-Duper Super Sunday for the Kristen French Child Advocacy Centre. Together we raised $13.368 and had an amazing time doing it with four WNHL Games, the MT Bellies Shootout and the World Famous All Goalie Game. Thanks to our sponsors, the Rex Hotel, MT Bellies, SS Brand It, Merchant Ale House and Spectacle Clinic.