The Sudbury Wolves scored 10 goals on their way to a Sunday afternoon win over the Kingston Frontenacs on Jan. 12.
The 10-6 win in a wild game improves the Pack’s season record to 22 wins, 12 regulation losses, and five overtime losses in the Ontario Hockey League.
Nate Krawchuk once again got the nod in goal for the Sudbury Wolves while Charlie Schenkel, newly acquired from the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, got the start for the Frontenacs.
With Kingston’s Lukas Moore in the penalty box for crosschecking, Quentin Musty picked up the puck off of a chance for Henry Mews and scored his ninth goal of the season to give Sudbury a 1-0 lead less than five minutes into the game.
Just 2:18 later, Ondrej Molnar found the puck in a scramble in front of Schenkel and put it in the net for his sixth goal of the season to extend the Wolves’ lead to 2-0.
With 2:06 left to play in the first, Kingston’s Joey Willis was wide open in front of Krawchuk and scored his 18th goal of the season to cut the Wolves’ lead to 2-1.
With 1:44 remaining in the opening period, Wolves’ Captain Donovan McCoy took advantage of a Kingston giveaway and scored a shorthanded goal on a breakaway to give the Sudbury Wolves a 3-1 after the first period of play.
Just 25 seconds into the second period and before the ice had time to fully dry, Jacob Battaglia scored from a bad angle to once again pull Kingston within a goal, now trailing Sudbury by a 3-2 score.
Just 12 seconds later Musty received a nice no-look pass from Nathan Villeneuve and scored his second goal of the game to restore Sudbury’s two goal lead to 4-2.
Less than a minute later, Kocha Delic fired from the slot and scored his 20th goal of the season, giving the Wolves a 5-2 lead. Delic has scored at least one goal in nine outings, tying a Sudbury Wolves franchise record.
The goals just kept coming.
Barely a minute later, Frontenac Tuomas Uronen took the puck off a Kingston faceoff win and sniped it past Krawchuk for his 19th goal of the season, making the score 5-3 for Sudbury.
At the 6:11 mark of the second period, with Sudbury once again shorthanded, Musty dished the puck over to Nathan Villeneuve, who scored his 16th goal of the season, to make the score 6-3 for the Wolves.
With 6:53 to go in the middle frame and the Wolves once again on the power play, Alex Pharand passed the puck to a wide open Kieron Walton, who scored his 25th goal of the season, to open up a 7-3 lead for the Sudbury Wolves.
A little more than five minutes later, and with the Wolves on yet another power play, Molnar put the puck in the net for his second goal of the game, giving the Wolves a massive 8-3 lead with one period remaining in the hockey game.
Just 3:47 into the third, Pharand made a cross ice pass to Walton, who made good on his second goal of the game, giving Sudbury a 9-3 lead.
Less than two minutes later, while on the power play, Cedrick Guindon for the Frontenacs blasted a shot from the high slot area and put it behind Krawchuk for his 23rd goal of the season, making the score 9-4 for the Sudbury Wolves.
Just under one minute later, Kingston crept closer, with another power play goal, with Quinton Burns scoring his sixth goal of the season from the point, putting Kingston within a margin of 9-5.
While on yet another power play, the Frontenacs made the score 9-6 with just over a minute left to play when Tuomas Uronen scored from Krawchuk’s right for his second goal of the game.
Villeneuve went in on the Kingston goalie on a breakaway with just six seconds remaining in the hockey game to seal the victory for the Sudbury Wolves over the Kingston Frontenacs by a score of 10-6.
With the win, the Sudbury Wolves remain in third place in the Central Division, tied for fourth place in the Eastern Conference with the Kingston Frontenacs, and tied for seventh place in the Ontario Hockey League with the very same Kingston Frontenacs.
The Sudbury Wolves hit the road for a game in Windsor against the Spitfires on Jan. 16, with puck drop scheduled for 7:05 p.m.
Super fan Robert McCarthy covers Sudbury Wolves and Sudbury Five games for Sudbury.com. Got a question for Robert? Email it to [email protected].