POWASSAN, Ont. – The Greater Sudbury Cubs were all business from the onset as they scored six times in a first period barrage as part of a convincing 9-1 victory over the Powassan Voodoos Friday in a Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League contest held at the Powassan Sportsplex, Friday.
The visiting Cubs began the outburst 3:45 into the contest when Jonathon Varela lifted a play out of his own zone that allowed Owen King to dash down the right wing with pace and snap a short side shot that flew over the glove of Voodoos netminder Cole Vreugdenhil.
With the tally, King now has eight goals in his first seven games back in the league as he also ran a point streak to six in the process.
More from Greater Sudbury saw them go up by a pair when Eidan Macartney quickly pumped in a crisp cross-ice pass from Nolan Newton.
Not letting up, the Cubs’ Kaedyn Long swiped the puck off a defender that led to Lucas Antonioni stuffing in his third marker of the season at 13:44.
With that, Powassan decided on a goaltending change as Derrick Champagne entered in long relief.
Not done there however, the guests made it 4-0 via the power play as they swiftly moved it around and eventually saw Long slam one in from the slot.
The onslaught continued late in the frame as a head man pass from King found Noah Kohan who had got behind the Voodoos defence and went in alone where he wired one over the blocker of Champagne.
Firing on all cylinders, the Cubs supplied a sixth in the period with another man advantage effort that King sizzled into the top right corner at 19:11.
More work from the Greater Sudbury special teams in the second stanza saw Long left with a tap-in off a Caden Dubreuil shorthanded break.
Tacking on another extra-man effort, Mason Walker made it 8-0 after 40 minutes as he picked up his 10th of the season by roofing a wrister through bodies.
A unique moment aided in Powassan getting on the board in the third on a delayed penalty and with Cubs goaltender Matthew Vahramian heading to the bench for an extra attacker.
On the play, after a shot rang off the post, the puck was knocked off the stick of a Greater Sudbury player at the Voodoos’ blueline and saw it slide the length of the ice into the empty net.
Credited with the long-distance marker was Caleb Dawson.
The Cubs then capped off the romp off a lengthy Nate Lazarus rush that saw his dish over to Antonioni for his second of the evening to round out the scoring.
With the one-sided result, the Cubs improve to 15-6-1-0 on the season and in defeat, the Voodoos fall to 12-5-0-2.