Three goals on the power play —and two more while down a man— helped the Greater Sudbury Cubs to a 6-2 victory over the Hearst Lumberjacks Jan. 17 as they hit the ice in a Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League encounter at Claude Larose Recreation Centre.
The lone goal in the first period came midway through the stanza when Greater Sudbury’s Owen King clicked on the man advantage by taking a cross-ice feed from Mason Walker, whipping his 25th of the season high blocker side on Hearst netminder, William Stonehouse.
With the assist, Walker ran a point streak to nine, while Spencer Horgan, who had the other helper, is now on a seven-game point streak.
The Lumberjacks drew level 5:43 into the second when a Cubs’ defender fanned on a pass in his own end, allowing Hunter Kelso to tie it, putting one past Greater Sudbury’s Iain Wintle.
Retaking the lead 10 minutes later, Nolan Newton converted on another power play. Set-up down low by Walker, he quickly cranked a shot by Stonehouse for his 30th of the campaign.
Greater Sudbury then took a 3-1 lead into the intermission as Horgan struck shorthanded at 18:23; taking a one-handed shovel pass from Kaedyn Long and taking it to his left and lifting the puck in for the goal
Moving to the third, the Cubs supplied some early insurance thanks to Noah Kohan converting 38 seconds in after snagging a turnover and sending a sizzler past Stonehouse’s glove from the slot.
Yet another shorthanded effort saw Daks Klinkhammer opt to shoot on an odd-man rush and make no mistake for his 19th of 2025-26.
Still on the power play, Cole Shepherdson got one back for Hearst as he got just enough of a redirect to ease it across the goal line at 6:21.
Securing the result with a third extra-man marker, Horgan whipped in a shot from mid-range to round out the scoring.
With the 6-2 win, the Cubs move to 28-6-1-2 overall and the loss drops the Lumberjacks to 21-8-0-2.
The Cubs next take on the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners on Jan. 22 at the Gerry McCrory Countryside Sports Complex. Puck drops at 7:10 p.m.