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By Shane Clausing
NWJHL Thriller

Navigators win a wild one against Flyers, Huskies continue dominance

Dec 19, 2019 | 1:43 PM

North Peace Navigators @ Fariview Flyers

The North Peace Navigators ended their two-game losing streak on Wednesday night as they defeated the Fairview Flyers 7-6.

In the first period it would be the Flyers jumping on the board first, with two quick goals coming 2:16 apart from Dawson Blanchette and Rylee Hebert to make it 2-0 10:50 into the first period.

The game would continue to go back and forth in the first. The teams would trade three goals in a span of 1:23 to make it 3-2 Flyers after the first period. Dawson Briscoe and Jonathan Noskey would pick up the goals for the Navigators, while Tyler Wirth would add one more for the Flyers.

In the second period the Navigators would take control. Robert Lemay, Theo Cunningham (Laderoute) and Dylan Bellerose would all tally for the Nav’s with three goals in the first 15 minutes of the second period to make it a 5-3 Navigators lead. Ryan Hebert would add a late goal for the Flyers to make it 5-4 Navigators after two periods.

The third period saw the Flyers come out flying. Eric Dentigner and Dawson Blanchette pocketed two goals in the span of 15 seconds to put the Flyers up 6-5 in the first minute of the third.

The scoring would almost dry up from there, until Lemay would pot his second goal of the game with under three minutes to play to tie the game at 6-6.

As the clocked ticked down, Lemay would score his hat-trick goal with 11 seconds to play in the game to give the Navigators a 7-6 victory.

North Peace is now finished their schedule until January 2020, as they are off for the Christmas break. The Flyers will be in action this Friday when they host the JDA Kings.

Dawson Creek Junior Canucks @ Fort St. John Huskies

The Fort St. John Huskies continued their dominance in the NWJHL Wednesday night as they defeated the Dawson Creek Junior Canucks to win their fourth straight game.

Huskies forward Brady Marzocco led the way with four points in the game, while goaltender Tyler McArthur stopped 29 of 30 shots for the victory.

The game also saw the Huskies go 4 for 10 on the power play and kill all nine penalties that they had faced.

The Huskies and Junior Canucks are both off for the Christmas break. They will return to action in January 2020.

by Shane Clausing