The Greater Sudbury Cubs went on a nine-goal run at Noelville Arena on Saturday night to defeat the French River Rapids 9-0 in Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League play.
Rebounding from a 4-2 loss to the Powassan Voodoos on Thursday, the defending league champions went on a tear on Saturday led by a hat trick from forward Nolan Newton, and by the solid netminding for rookie Matteo Beites, who earned his first NOJHL shutout.
The Cubs scored five minutes into the first after a Daks Klinkhammer attempt from the slot found its way to Newton, making his season debut, who fired it past Bureau-Morel to make it a 1-0 game.
Newtown would do it all again at the end of the first after he wheeled past two Rapids’ defenders and beat Bureau-Morel to make it a 2-0 hockey game.
“On the power play heading into the second stanza, the visitors went up three when Spencer Horgan slid a backhand to the top of the crease that Noah Kohan snapped in,” the game report states.
Greater Sudbury made it 4-0 shorthanded thanks to Newton’s hot hand. He flew down the right wing on a two-on-one and fed a pass across to Eidan Macartney, who had nothing but net to shoot at, notching his third of the new season.
Before the second was over, Newtown would complete his hat trick. At 16:27, he took a cross-ice pass from Tyson Rismond and blasted a shot from the right circle past Bureau-Morel to earn his hat trick and make it a 5-0 game for Sudbury.
“Going ahead six early in the final frame, Kaedyn Long neatly batted one in out of mid-air after a Kohan shot bounced out off the end boards,” the report states.
Sudbury kept scoring until the final buzzer. Next, Greater Sudbury’s Jacob Signoretti used a defender as a screen and put one past Bureau-Morel to make it 7-0. Then, Caden Dubreuil and Ty Dubreuil both scored before the close of the third to reach the final score of 9-0.
The Cubs are next back in action Sept. 25 at home against the Espanola Paper Kings.