saultsports ESPANOLA, Ont. – Samuel Assinewai scored twice, including picking up the game-winner, and added an assist to propel the Greater Sudbury Cubs to a 6-1 victory over the Espanola Paper Kings Saturday in a Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League meeting at the Regional Recreation Complex.
Extending a consecutive game streak to 18, Assinewai got the Cubs on the board as he drove his way down the left wing and fired a shot through Paper Kings’ netminder Jack Helkie at 12:42 of the first period.
Adding another in the latter stages of the frame, Assinewai powered out from the boards and drove through the slot, before taking it wide and snapping in his 27th tally of the season.
Still 2-0 Greater Sudbury into the second stanza, they pressed the pace and added to their cushion at 8:25 when Mason Walker was left with a tap-in off a nice Assinewai back pass.
Notching a fourth on the night, late in the session, Nolan Newton connected at 18:31 as he took a cross-ice feed from Lucas Signoretti and quickly roofed it.
Going back to last season, Newton now has points in each of his past 18 games played, while Signoretti ran a streak of his own to 13 straight outings.
Putting it away in the third, Alexandre Valade darted around the net and stuffed in a wrap around to put the visitors up by five.
After Newton notched another, Espanola eventually solved Cubs’ starter Karsen Chartier with three and a half minutes remaining, when Aleksander Duguay struck shorthanded as he picked off a play at his on blueline, then raced in alone and put a backhand up high.
With the result, Greater Sudbury has won 18 games in a row, having not suffered a defeat since November 7, versus Hearst.
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