Hawks get back in win column; double Millionaires
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The Nipawin Hawks snapped their three-game losing streak Tuesday with a 4-2 win over the Melville Millionaires.
Cole Fox opened the scoring in the opening two minutes, Artem Hrabovetskyi scored a power-play goal pushing Nipawin ahead 2-0, a lead the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) club wouldn’t relinquish all night. The first meeting of six between the Hawks and Millionaires was the return of longtime head coach Doug Johnson who is back in the SJHL after a year with the OCN Blizzard of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League (MJHL.). Fox didn’t play under Johnson, but he said the win was a big one for some of the teams’ veterans.
“It was good to get that one for sure, I know that one was big for a few boys, including Tad [Kozun, head coach], and Emma [Galloway, athletic therapist). That was a big one for sure,” the 19-year-old Innisfail, Alta. product said after the game.
Melville did cut the Nipawin lead to 2-1 in the first period with a shorthanded goal, and the score remained at that until late in the first period when Evan Forrest scored his team leading ninth goal of the year late in the second period. That turned out to be the game winner.
