Photos: Northern Exposures Photography
ELLIOT LAKE, Ont. – Continuing to roll along, the Timmins Rock racked up their eighth straight Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League win Sunday as the downed the Elliot Lake Vikings 6-2 at Rogers Arena.
The Rock got the game’s scoring going 6:09 into the proceedings when Simon Toupin worked his way out from the side boards into the middle, where he wired a low shot into the bottom left corner on Vikings’ starter Jacob Kirstein.
Extending their lead midway though the first period, Timmins’ Rock Oosterveld got a couple of in-close cracks in front before chipping in his fourth marker of the season.
Elliot Lake got one back at 11:05 courtesy of Kieran Prichett as he steered in a back pass put into the crease by Landen Lake-Rego past netminder Declan McNamara.
Going back up by two, Matteo Paradiso extended a point streak to eight as he clicked three minutes into the second by blasting in a pass from Maxx Hamelin.
The Vikings inched closer once more a couple of shifts later thanks to Jeremy Lamarche swatting in a loose puck laying out front.
However, the Rock tacked on two later tallies in the session to go up 5-2 after 40 minutes.
On those markers, Patrice Lafontaine roofed a shot on a screen before Evan Katic joined Paradiso on an eight-game heater with a nice tip-in off a Beriana shot towards the target.
Capping off the road result with the only goal in the third period, Hamelin ripped in the leftovers off a goal-mouth scramble to round out the scoring.
