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The Fort William Canadiens season concluded on Saturday with a 4-2 win over the Red Lake Rams in the final round robin game of the Hockey Northwestern Ontario Tournament of Champions.

The start was not ideal for the Canadiens as the Rams’ Kenroy Gallagher jumped on a loose puck off a broken play and scored just 12 seconds into the game.

Midway through the period, Liam Connolly scored on a two on one break for a 2-0 lead.

Early in the second period, the Canadiens’ Mason Arthur pounced on a Neelix Otway rebound and cut the lead to one goal.

Just under 10 minutes later, Arthur scored his second of the period and ninth of the season, firing home a powerplay shot from the slot.

In the opening minute of the third period, Luca Jedruch gave the Canadiens a 3-2 lead, banging home a rebound from a Kieran Lemmetty shot.

Jedruch would end the scoring in the final minute, converting a Nathan Caputo pass into an empty netter for his team-high 23rd of the year.

Nicolas Pavletic picked up the win in net.

Notes: The Canadiens were 1-3 on the powerplay while the Rams were 0-3; Cole Rzeszut, Owen Renn and Andrew Bragnalo were out of the lineup for the Canadiens; The Canadiens will wind up their season with a year-end banquet at a soon to be announced date.

Boxscore:

Game #55: HNO Tournament of Champions
Saturday March 16/24 – Port Arthur Arena

Fort William Canadiens 4 Red Lake Rams 2

Score By Period
Team  1  2  3  T 
Fort William Canadiens 0 2 2 4
Red Lake Rams 2 0 0 2

Summary
First Period
1. RLR Gallagher 0:12
2. RLR Connolly (J.Buehm) 9:16
Penalties: FWC Panacheese (Head contact major, Game misconduct) 0:20; FWC Gunn (Tripping) 2:28

Second Period
3. FWC Arthur 8th (Otway) 2:50
4. FWC Arthur 9th (Joubert) 12:28 PP
Penalties: FWC Caputo (Slashing) 3:14; RLR J.Buehm (Interference) 10:58

Third Period
5. FWC Jedruch 22nd (Lemmetty) 0:55
6. FWC Jedurch 23rd (Caputo) 14:35 EN
Penalties: RLR C.Buehm (Interference) 4:55; RLR C.Buehm (Hooking) 7:34

Goaltenders  MP GA  Dec 
FWC Nicolas Pavletic 45 2 Win
RLR Owen Gignac 44 3 Loss
RLR Empty net 1 1 -

Power plays: (goals-chances) Canadiens 1-3; Rams 0-3

The Fort William Canadiens split day two of the Hockey Northwestern Ontario Tournament of Champions on Friday, dropping a 4-0 morning meeting with the Fort William Hurricanes and responding with a 3-2 shootout win over the Marathon Northern Selects later in the afternoon.

In the opener, the Hurricanes’ Nolen Sloan scored twice in the first half of the second period to start the scoring. Zachary Erickson scored in the final minute of the period and the scoring concluded with an Anthony Sgambelluri goal in the opening seconds of the third period.

In the second game, similar to the opener, neither team was able to find the back of the net in the opening frame.

Early in the second period, the Selects’ Keenan Skwochinski scored to take a 1-0 lead.

In the final minute of the second period, Joseph Joubert evened the score at 1-1, finishing a three-way passing play with Mason Arthur and Tallon Thornsteinson.

Just under four minutes into the third period, Joubert took the puck the length of the ice and snapped home his 21st of the year on the powerplay.

Ethan Albert evened the score for the Selects with 4:18 left in the game.

In the shootout, Connor Menard stopped both of Marathon’s shooters and Neelix Otway and Joubert both scored for the Canadiens.

Notes: The Canadiens were without Cole Rzeszut, Andrew Bragnalo and Owen Renn for both games while Graham Gunn missed the opening game; Ali Hassan Alam played the morning game for the Canadiens; The Canadiens are now 3-1 in shootouts this season. Otway has scored in all four shootouts; Last year in the Tournament of Champions, the Canadiens also defeated the Marathon Northern Selects in a shootout; The Canadiens wrap up action with a meeting with the Red Lake Rams on Saturday afternoon.

Boxscore:

Game #53: HNO Tournament of Champions
Friday March 15/24 – Port Arthur Arena

Fort William Canadiens 0 Fort William Hurricanes 4

Score By Period
Team  1  2  3  T 
Fort William Canadiens 0 0 0 0
Fort William Hurricanes 0 3 1 4

Summary
First Period
No scoring
Penalties: FWH Graver (Hooking) 13:41

Second Period
1. FWH Sloan (Sgambelluri) 4:04
2. FWH Sloan 7:51
3. FWH Erickson (Sloan, Johnson) 14:35
Penalties: None

Third Period
4. FWH Sgambelluri (Smith) 0:19
Penalties: FWC Panacheese (Head contact) 2:12; FWH Smith (Head contact double minor) 6:27; FWH Dupuis (Crosschecking) 10:26; FWC Jedruch (Slashing) 12:15

Goaltenders  MP GA  Dec 
FWC Nicolas Pavletic 45 4 Loss
FWH Nicholas Webb 45 0 Win

Power plays: (goals-chances) Canadiens 0-4; Hurricanes 0-2

Boxscore:

Game #54: HNO Tournament of Champions
Friday March 15/24 – Port Arthur Arena

Fort William Canadiens 3 Marathon Northern Selects 2 (SO)

Score By Period
Team  1  2  3  SO T 
Fort William Canadiens 0 1 1 1 3
Marathon Northern Selects 0 1 1 0 2

Summary
First Period
No scoring
Penalties: MNS Albert (Misconduct) 0:00; MNS Michano-Driver (Slashing) 6:21

Second Period
1. MNS Skwochinski (G. Tucker) 3:20
2. FWC Joubert 20th (Thornsteinson) 14:37
Penalties: FWC Otway (Tripping) 5:39; MNS Desormeaux (Head contact, Unsportsmanlike conduct), MNS Albert (Head contact, Unsportsmanlike conduct), FWC Jedruch (Head contact, Unsportsmanlike conduct), FWC Otway (Head contact, Unsportsmanlike conduct) 14:27

Third Period
3. FWC Joubert 21st (Reid) 4:49 PP
4. MNS Albert 10:42
Penalties: MNS Abraham (Holding) 3:32; MNS Michano-Drover (Roughing), FWC Arthur (Roughing) 5:37; MNS Albert (Misconduct, Game misconduct) 10;42; MNS Michano-Drover (Boarding) 12:29; FWC Panacheese (Tripping) 14:55

Shootout
FWC Otway Goal
MNS Abraham Miss
FWC Joubert Goal
MNS Harmer Miss

Goaltenders  MP GA  Dec 
FWC Connor Menard 45 2 Win
MNS Patrick Griffin 45 2 SOL

Power plays: (goals-chances) Canadiens 0-4; Hurricanes 0-2

A four-minute span early in the second period proved detrimental to the Fort William Canadiens on Thursday evening in the opener of the Hockey Northwestern Ontario Tournament of Champions, giving up four goals to the West End Bruins and eventually falling 6-0.

Kehl Thompson scored the lone goal of the first period just after the midway point.

2:59 into the second period, Boston Bortolin converted on a two on one break. Luke Kluchkowsky would score a powerplay marker less than a minute later, will Cruz Halstead and Bortolin would each score in the next couple of minutes.

Nicholas Silvaggio scored the final goal of the game in the middle of the third period.

Notes: The Bruins were 1-1 on the powerplay while the Canadiens were 0-3; Cole Rzeszut, Deacon Panacheese, Owen Renn, Andrew Bragnalo and Tallon Thornsteinson were out of the lineup while the Canadiens welcomed back affiliate Ali Hassan Alam back to the lineup; Joseph Joubert played his 100th game with the Canadiens; The Canadiens play twice on Friday, starting with a morning game versus the Fort William Hurricanes and an afternoon meeting with the Marathon Northern Selects.

Boxscore:

Game #52: HNO Tournament of Champions
Thursday March 14/24 – Port Arthur Arena

Fort William Canadiens 0 West End Bruins 6

Score By Period
Team  1  2  3  T 
Fort William Canadiens 0 0 0 0
West End Bruins 1 4 1 6

Summary
First Period
1. WE Thompson 8:44
Penalties: WE George (Hooking) 13:34

Second Period
2. WE Bortolin (Silvaggio) 2:59
3. WE Kluchkowsky (Fiorito, Magill) 3:41 PP
4. WE Halstead (Silvaggio, Lemmetty) 4:13
5. WE Bortolin (Tenhunen) 5:35
Penalties: FWC Gregor (Crosschecking) 3:16

Third Period
6. WE Silvaggio 7:31
Penalties: WE Silvaggio (Holding) 4:30; WE Romeo (Tripping) 13:11

Goaltenders  MP GA  Dec 
FWC Connor Menard 45 6 Loss
WE Jackson Andraka 45 0 Win

Power plays: (goals-chances) Canadiens 0-3; Bruins 1-1

A quick start was not enough for the Fort William Canadiens on Wednesday evening, as they dropped their regular season finale versus the Current River Comets by a score of 5-2.

Luca Jedruch opened the scoring midway through the first period, netting his 21st of the year on a rebound at the side of the net.

Less than two minutes later, Owen Bodnar knocked home an Andrew Bragnalo pass for his second of the season.

Late in the period, the Comets’ Nathan Allan and Sam Williamson scored 63 seconds apart to tie the score at 2-2.

Williamson and Koen Herman scored in the first half of the second period to take a 4-2 second period lead.

Williamson scored his third of the game in the opening minute of the third period.

Notes: The Canadiens were 0-2 on the powerplay while the Comets were 0-1; Kieran Lemmetty, Owen Renn and Tallon Thornsteinson were out of the Canadiens lineup, while Ali Hassan Alam played his ninth game as an affiliate; The playoffs begin next week, with the Comets and West End Bruins squaring off in one series while the Fort William Hurricanes meet the Volunteer Pool Bearcats; The Canadiens have two weeks off until they play their final games of the season in the Hockey Northwestern Ontario Tournament of Champions.

Boxscore:

Game #51: Regular Season
Wednesday February 28/24 – Delaney Arena

Fort William Canadiens 2 Current River Comets 5

Score By Period
Team  1  2  3  T 
Fort William Canadiens 2 0 0 2
Current River Comets 2 2 1 5

Summary
First Period
1. FWC Jedruch 21st (Alam) 6:44
2. FWC Bodnar 2nd (Bragnalo, Reid) 8:19
3. CR Allan (Height) 11:29
4. CR Williamson (Brindley) 12:40
Penalties: None

Second Period
5. CR Williamson (Brindley, MacGillivray) 0:14
6. CR Herman (Duclos, Kaemingh) 4:34
Penalties: FWC Joubert (Slashing) 5:05

Third Period
7. CR Williamson (Brindley, MacGillivray) 0:33
Penalties: CR Allan (Slashing) 5:49; CR Holowanky (Hooking) 12:22

Goaltenders  MP GA  Dec 
FWC Nicolas Pavletic 45 5 Loss
CR Matthew Smith 45 2 Win

Power plays: (goals-chances) Canadiens 0-2; Comets 0-1

With a 6-4 loss to the Fort William Hurricanes and an earlier Volunteer Pool Bearcats victory, the Fort William Canadiens were mathematically eliminated from the playoffs.

The Hurricanes scored three times in the first period, with Anthony Sgambelluri scoring off a faceoff win followed by a Bryce Volbracht shorthanded breakaway marker and a Nolen Sloan goal off a rebound.

Early in the second period, Andrew Bragnalo netted his 11th of the season, converting a rebound off a Mason Arthur shot.

After Liam Lucas made it 4-1 for the Hurricanes, Luca Jedruch scored his 20th of the year, finishing a Bragnalo pass.

Mathew Smelow ended the scoring in the second period for the Hurricanes.

After Sloan made it 6-2, Arthur stole a puck and snapped home his 7th of the year followed by Neelix Otway firing home his 15th of the campaign, converting a Joseph Joubert pass.

Notes: The Canadiens were 0-1 on the powerplay while the Hurricanes were 0-2; Owen Renn and Tallon Thornsteinson were out of the Canadiens lineup; The Canadiens regular season will conclude on Wednesday evening with a matchup with the Current River Comets.

Boxscore:

Game #50: Regular Season
Monday February 26/24 – Delaney Arena

Fort William Canadiens 4 Fort William Hurricanes 6

Score By Period
Team  1  2  3  T 
Fort William Canadiens 0 2 2 4
Fort William Hurricanes 3 2 1 6

Summary
First Period
1. FWH Sgambelluri (Li. Lucas) 5:22
2. FWH Volbracht 9:15 SH
3. FWH Sloan (Le. Lucas, Dupuis) 13:11
Penalties: FWH Smelow (Hooking) 8:37

Second Period
4. FWC Bragnalo 11th (Arthur, Reid) 0:38
5. FWH Li.Lucas (Le.Lucas) 4:42
6. FWC Jedruch 20th (Bragnalo, Rzeszut) 5:20
7. FWH Smelow (Li.Lucas, Sgambelluri) 9:53
Penalties: FWH Johnson (Head contact) 1:32

Third Period
8. FWH Sloan (Graver, Dupuis) 3:49
9. FWC Arthur 7th 4:15
10. FWC Otway 15th (Joubert) 14:42
Penalties: FWC Gregor (Slashing) 6:08

Goaltenders  MP GA  Dec 
FWC Connor Menard 45 6 Loss
FWH Nicholas Webb 45 4 Win

Power plays: (goals-chances) Canadiens 0-1; Hurricanes 0-2