Blackfalds Bulldogs’ Joey Melo named BCHL’s first star of the week

Joey Melo of the Blackfalds Bulldogs has been named the BCHL’s first star of the week.

Per the BCHL:

Melo led the BCHL in points last week with six in two games, piling up two goals and four assists in a pair of Blackfalds wins.

On Friday night, the University of Alaska-Anchorage commit collected a pair of assists in his team’s 4-0 victory over the Vernon Vipers. A night later, Melo produced a career-best four points, getting in on each of his team’s goals, in a 4-2 win against the Spruce Grove Saints. With his team down 1-0 in the first, the 19-year-old scored to tie the game before intermission, then totaled another goal and two assists in the third to complete the comeback.