NOJHL finals tied at one
Powassan Voodoos will play host to the Sudbury Cubs on Sunday afternoon and Monday evening with the best of seven Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League championship series tied at a game apiece.
After dropping the series opener at home by a 5-2 score, Sudbury rewarded its fans with a 2-0 blanking of Powassan in Game 2. Combined, the Cubs drew 1,054 fans to Gerry McCrory Countryside Arena for the opening two games of the series.
Four players — two from each team — have been putting up the goals throughout this spring’s playoffs. Nolan Newton leads Sudbury with nine goals while rookie sensation Hudson Chitaroni has tallied eight times. Meanwhile, rookie star Reyth Smith leads Powassan with nine goals while Mathieu MacMillan has found range eight times.
Chitaroni and Smith are among the youngest players in the NOJHL with 2007 birth dates. And both are signed Ontario Hockey League draft picks — Chitaroni of the Sudbury Wolves and Smith of the North Bay Battalion.
Chitaroni a class act. Treated my boy Vince with utmost respect in his team NOHA camp back a year ago. Great player great person ,he will go far