OLIVER PAIPOONGE – Ethan Lang scored twice and Eric Vanska earned a 16-save shutout as the Kam River Fighting Walleye blanked the visiting Fort Frances Lakers 4-0 on Friday night.
Lang opened the scoring and scored the lone goal of the second, with one tick on the clock remaining in the middle stanza, to lead the Fighting Walleye to the win, the team’s sixth in a row.
Jack Cook and Max Leduc also had tallies for the home side, playing in front of 720 fans at the Norwest Arena.
Ryan Doucette and Noah Kramps had a pair of assists apiece.
The first-place Fighting Walleye improved to 28-7-1 and will take on the last-place Lakers (6-30-0) again on Saturday night.
Sunday’s date between Kam River and Red Lake has been postponed, the Miners unable to play any of their three scheduled games this weekend.
Dryden 5, Thunder Bay 1: The second-place Ice Dogs invaded Fort William Gardens on Friday night and skated away with an easy win, outshooting the North Stars 43-21. Brady Frattinger had a pair for Dryden, with singles going to Garrett Hrechka, Derek Koivisto and Max Roby.
Nikolas Campbell, with his fifth goal in his past three outings, had the lone goal for Thunder Bay. The Ice Dogs and North Stars tangle again on Saturday night, with the puck drop at the Gardens scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
