Photo Bob Davies
Coming off a 2 – 0 record over the March 4 and 5 weekend in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario against the Sudbury U18 Nickel Capitals, the Soo U18 Greyhounds took to road to close out their 2021 – 2022 regular season with two games in Powassan, Ontario to take on the North Bay U16 Trappers and the North Bay U18 Trappers over the March 11 and 12 weekend in Great North Midget League action.
Saturday, March 12
Soo U18 Greyhounds (1) vs (0) North Bay U18 Trappers
Period 3 (02:42) Soo U18 Greyhounds – Jacob Smith (Lincoln Moore, Sam Verbonac)
Goaltender – Terry See
Friday, March 11
Soo U18 Greyhounds (1) vs (2) North Bay U16 Trappers
Period 2
(16:23) Soo U18 Greyhounds – Evan Roach (Jacob Smith, Noah Aboflan)
(06:03) North Bay U16 Trappers – Anthony Boyes (Nate Gravelle, Marshall McCharles)
(04:27) North Bay U16 Trappers – Heath Bradley (Lucas Nashkawa)
Goaltender – Charlie Burns
U18 Greyhound coach told Saultsports that “I’m real proud of the group we were shorthanded all weekend and lost two more players last night. We need to get a little more on the inside in the offensive zone most of our offense was from the outside and this time of year there just the same opportunities, so we’ll need to work on that this week. We had guys playing different roles all weekend to fill the voids of the five injured players and it was great to see. It will only get more difficult up in Kap in that small rink and everyone will be gunning for us.”
“It’s great to earn a regular season championship but our sights are on something greater and we can’t wait to get started,” said Henderson.
The Soo U18 Greyhounds will now head to Kapuskasing, Ontario for the 2022 NOHA Tournament of Championships post season starting on March 16 – 20. The Greyhounds opponents will be the Sudbury U16 Nickel Capitals (Wednesday, March 16/7:00 p.m), New Liskeard Cubs (Thursday, March 17/4:00 p.m) and North Bay U18 Trappers (Friday, March 18/10:00 a.m) with the semi-final being played on Saturday, March 19th. All games will be live on HockeyTV.com.
