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At the Northern Community Centre, the fourth-place CASS Huskies capped off the 2025–2026 Sault Ste. Marie Boy’s High School Hockey League regular season in strong fashion, skating past the fifth-place White Pines Wolverines in a game highlighted by a dominant offensive showing and a hat trick performance from Carter Pritchard.
The Huskies opened the scoring midway through the first period when Max Moyal made it 1–0 at 9:37, notching his second goal of the season off an assist from Brandon Lobban. Just over a minute later, CASS struck again as Carter Pritchard buried his seventh of the year at 8:29, finishing a play set up by Owen Kelly to give the Huskies a 2–0 lead after one.
CASS took full control in the second period with a pair of powerplay goals. At 6:17, Teagun Beaulieu made it 3–0 with his second of the season, assisted by Austin Finlayson and Gabe Stewart. The Huskies went back to work on the man advantage at 3:22 when Pritchard scored his second of the game and eighth of the season, converting a feed from Noah Smith to extend the lead to 4–0.
Before the period expired, Pritchard completed his hat trick in style. With just 53 seconds remaining, he fired home his ninth goal of the season on an unassisted effort, giving CASS a commanding 5–0 advantage heading into the third.
White Pines pushed back in the final frame, breaking the shutout on the powerplay at 7:47 when Steven Wabosse scored his first of the season off an assist from Chase Socchia to make it 5–1. The Wolverines added one more in the final second of regulation as Colin Mann netted his first of the year with help from Jagger Syrette, closing the scoring at 5–2.
Between the pipes, Ben Belleau tended goal for White Pines, while Jack Unetic backstopped the Huskies in the regular season finale.
The two teams won’t have long to wait for a rematch, as CASS and White Pines will meet again on February 17th in a postseason play-in game. The winner will advance to face the fourth seed in a best-of-three series, with puck drop set for 3:30 p.m. at the Northern Community Centre.
