The Greater Sudbury Cubs are back in the win column after smashing the Timmins Rock in Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League action on Nov. 8.
The Cubs saw their 13-game win streak broken by the second-place Hearst Lumberjack squad on Thursday night. The team seemed to take the loss in stride though, rebounding with a win over Timmins.
Lucas Signoretti got things going for the Cubs early. At around eight minutes into the opening period, the NOJHL’s leading scorer buried his 17th goal of the young season to give Greater Sudbury a 1-0 lead.
The Cubs made it 2-0 at 3:49 of the second period after Timmins tried and failed to dump the puck into the Sudbury zone, but a bad bounce (well bad for the Rock, at least) gave the Nickel City boys a a three-man break that saw Tannen Iserhoff convert a Ben Harris feed into a goal.
Timmins finally got on the board in the third period after Alexis Tremblay jammed in a rebound off a Clark Scaddan attempt.
The game stayed at 2-1 until late in regulation time. Timmins gambled on pulling their goalie, but the Cubs’ Jacob Lamoureux snagged a clearing attempt from teammate Mason Chitaroni and slid it in the empty with 40 seconds remaining to finalize the outcome.
The win moves Greater Sudbury’s record to 15-2-1-1 while in defeat, Timmins falls to 10-7-0-0.
