Greyhounds Demidovich and Vincent Register Three Points Each in Win over Wolves -

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On Wednesday, December 18th, the Soo U16 Greyhounds, currently in fifth place with a record of 7-7-0-1, traveled to Sudbury to take on the second-place Sudbury U18 Wolves, who boast a strong 12-4-0-1 record in the GNU18HL. The Greyhounds are coming off a challenging weekend at the Gold Puck AAA Tournament in Waterloo, where they posted a 1-2-1 record, while the Wolves are entering the game with momentum after securing two victories over the Flyers in Kapuskasing.

At 15:40 of the first period from the left faceoff circle after picking up a Greyhound turnover, Sudbury’s Denver Mulligan rifles the opening goal from the left faceoff circle his 13th of the season over Soo netminder Gavin Zuccato’s blocker to give the Wolves a 1 – 0 lead. Jameson Fabbro added the lone assist on Mulligan’s goal. With a pass from behind Sudbury’s net from Nathan Watts, Makks Demidovich sinks the tying goal from in between the faceoff circle at 16:29 of the first over Wolves’ goaltender Wesley Richer’s catcher to pull the Greyhounds even 1 – 1. Jacob Vincent drew the other helper on Demidovich’s sixth of the season. With the Greyhounds on a powerplay from just inside the Sudbury blueline, Soo defenceman Anthony Carbone fires a shot through traffic to find the back of Richer’s net with 1:54 remaining in the period to send the Greyhounds into the first intermission up 2 – 1. Nico Bossio and Demidovich contributed on Carbone’s fifth of the season.

At 6:11 of the second, Nathan Watts catches a cross ice pass into the left faceoff circle from Demidovich to rifle his fourth of the season with a snapshot over Richer’s catcher to bring the Soo’s lead to 3 – 1. Russell McNally notched the other helper on the Greyhounds third goal of the contest. With Wolves two on one at 7:47 of the period, Joshua Cholette-Hebert skated around a Soo defenseman to slide Sudbury’s second goal under Zaccuto’s left pad to close the gap to one for Sudbury. Noah Lafrance and Rowan Smith added the assists on Cholette-Hebert’s third of the season. With 3:36 remaining in the second, the Wolves coughed up the puck just inside their own blueline to be picked up by Jacob Vincent to be fired over Richer’s right shoulder to increase the Greyhounds’ lead to 4 – 2. Wyatt Jarratt had the lone contributor on Vincent’s fourth of the season.

On a Greyhound powerplay and the Soo on a three on two, Jacob Vincent sends a cross crease pass to Wyatt Jarratt to lift the visitors fifth goal of the game for his eighth of the season at ten minutes even to give the Greyhounds a 5 – 2 lead. With a wrist shot from the top of the left faceoff circle, Finlay Carlson fires the Soo’s sixth and final goal of the contest to give the Greyhounds a 6 – 2 win on the road over Richer’s catcher at 10:56 of the third. Connor Belanger and Andrew Aikens had the assists on Carlson’s second of the season. Sudbury goaltender Wesley Richer stopped 21 of 27 shots in the loss while Greyhound netminder Gavin Zaccuto turned away 26 of 28 shots in the win.

Next action for the Soo U16 Greyhounds will be on Sunday, December 29th when they host the North Bay U18 Trappers at the John Rhodes Centre in a 12:30 p.m puck drop.