Photos: Hélène Rancourt
BLIND RIVER, Ont. – A Caleb Walker goal 13:52 into the second period held up as the game-winner as the Blind River Beavers went on to defeat the Iroquois Falls Storm 5-2 Sunday in a Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League afternoon affair at the Blind River Community Centre.
Capitalizing on the day’s initial power play, the Beavers’ Ryder Hill took a Camden Cowan pass across and quickly whipped the puck by Storm starter Keenan Connely at 2:08.
An even strength effort off the stick of defenceman Malcolm McCrae made it 2-0 midway through the first as he jumped in from the point and took a feed down low from Jake Bond and blasted it in from the side boards.
Moving to the middle stanza, Iroquois Falls cut into the deficit on man advantage at 4:31 when Brady Walker sent a slick pass from up top over to Landon Gallaher to the left of Blind River netminder Samuel Carreiras-Pata, where he wired in his sixth tally of the campaign.
The visitors then drew level when Felix Tremblay corralled a loose puck off a draw and sent a shot through a maze of bodies that beat a screened Carreiras-Pata.
Retaking the lead later in the session an Ilian Danilov shot block in his own zone led to Reegan Dezordo sending Walker dashing down the left wing where he ripped his chance past Connely.
The assist for Dezordo was his initial NOJHL point.
Going to the third period, Blind River put it away late with a couple of markers to secure the home-ice victory.
Braden Yudt, just after a power play they were on had expired, made it 4-2 as he took a crisp cross-crease feed through the crease from Ellyott Dundas and slammed it in at 17:01.
Michael Lewandowski then wrapped it up a minute and a half later when he put one into an empty net, off a Bond pass, to close it out.
