NEWS RELEASE
NORTHERN ONTARIO JUNIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE
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KIRKLAND LAKE – Thomas Beard broke open a goalless game, 8:52 into the third period, to help send the Timmins Rock to an eventual 3-0 triumph over the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners Saturday in a Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League affair at Joe Mavrinac Community Complex.
The opening frame featured plenty of pace from the two sides, but the efforts of Kirkland Lake’s Matis Bureau-Morel and Timmins’ Graham Gee between the pipes kept it without a goal after one.
In the second stanza, it was much of the same, despite a large edge in shots for the Rock as the contest remained scoreless through 40 minutes.
Timmins eventually solved Bureau-Morel at 8:52 of the third when Beard took a Lucas Lowe pass and fired a shot that managed to squeak through the Gold Miners’ netminder and slowly trickled across the goal line.
Adding some insurance while on a power play, Reece Liu whipped one in from the right side, off some crisp puck movement at 15:11.
Capping off the road result, Ryan Armitage scored into an empty net, from long-range, in the final minute to round out the scoring.
The shutout for Gee was his first in the NOJHL for the rookie netminder.
The win raises the Rock’s record to 11-7-0-0, while despite a solid effort, the Gold Miners fell to 2-15-0-2.
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