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Ottawa Citizen
12-05-2025
- Sport
- Ottawa Citizen
Greater Sudbury Cubs split opening weekend at Centennial Cup
The same group of Greater Sudbury Cubs who helped to power their team to a championship-clinching victory in the NOJHL final continued their strong play to start the Centennial Cup national championship in Calgary. Article content Article content Daks Klinkhammer and Logan Moore had two goals each, Nolan Newton recorded four assists and Karsen Chartier made 35 saves, including a highlight behind-the-back grab with his glove as the Cubs defeated the Grande Prairie Storm 6-2 in their round-robin opener at Max Bell Centre on Friday night. Article content Article content Ryan Rubic and Noah Kohan also scored for the Cubs, who led 1-0 after one period and 4-2 after 40 minutes, before tacking on two more tallies in the final frame. Article content Article content 'We stayed level-headed today compared to our first game last year (a 10-2 loss to Collingwood),' Cubs head coach Darryl Moxam said in a post-game release from Hockey Canada. 'Whether we were up or they came back and tied the hockey game, we just stayed the course and playing a Game 7 in order to get here helped out in that. Props to our leadership group, our coaching staff or anyone else on the bench, they didn't allow anyone to get too high or too low and last year's experience had a lot to do with that.' Colin Doherty and Alec Hall scored, while Nicholas Jones and Keagin Kelln combined to make 16 saves for Grande Prairie, a finalist in the Alberta Junior Hockey League this season. Article content Greater Sudbury got off to a similarly strong start on Saturday, leading the Northern Manitoba Blizzard 1-0 after the first stanza, but the Manitoba Junior Hockey League champions knotted the score in the second, then outpaced the locals with five goals in the final frame to take a 6-3 decision. Article content Article content Moore, Spencer Horgan and Ben Harris had the goals and Chartier made 29 stops for the Cubs, who were scheduled to face the Trenton Golden Hawks, winners of the Ontario Junior Hockey League championship, on Monday at 6 p.m. ET, then the Kam River Fighting Walleye, champs from the Superior International Junior Hockey League, on Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET to finish out the round-robin portion of the tournament. Article content Jack Linton, with two goals and an assist, and Brett Ward, with one marker and a pair of helpers, were the offensive leaders for Northern Manitoba on Saturday.
Ottawa Citizen
29-04-2025
- Sport
- Ottawa Citizen
Lumberjacks defeat Cubs, send NOJHL final to Game 7
Article content DonHeaven Veilleux's third-period goal stood as the game-winner on Monday night as the Hearst Lumberjacks held off a third-period charge from the Greater Sudbury Cubs to force a seventh and deciding game in their NOJHL championship series. Article content Daks Klinkhammer and Michael MacLean scored twice each and Karsen Chartier and Noah Beaulne combined to make 30 saves for the Cubs, who will look to clinch a second straight league title at Gerry McCrory Countryside Sports Complex on Wednesday at 7:05 p.m. Article content Cole Miller, Owen Hay, Liam Boswell and Adam Shillinglaw joined Veilleux in scoring for Hearst and Alexandre Boivin made 33 saves for the Lumberjacks, who will look to complete their comeback after erasing a 3-1 deficit in the series.
