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Stars score five unanswered in third, rally to sweep Red Lake

Thunder Bay wins eighth straight, opens a 10-point gap over second-place Miners in SIJHL standings.
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Kyle Auger (FILE)

THUNDER BAY – The Thunder Bay North Stars weren’t about to let the Red Lake Miners end their seven-game winning streak.

Trailing 4-2 heading into the third, the top-ranked Stars rallied to score five unanswered goals and skated off with a 7-4 home-ice victory at Fort William Gardens.

Michael Stubbs got the ball rolling for the Stars in the decisive third, cutting Red Lake’s lead to one just 54 seconds after the opening puck drop. It was his second of the night, 12th of the season, as he upped his scoring streak to seven games.

Kyle Auger tied it at 4:30, beating goaltender Eric Vanska, a Miners affiliate player. Sixty-nine seconds later Joel WIllan gave the North Stars their first lead of the night and then captain Ryan Mignault put the game out of reach with goals four minutes apart.

Mignault leads the Stars with 35 goals.

Spencer Milne and Keegan Tiringer staked the Miners to a 2-0 lead in the first 4:26 of the opening period, but Stubbs got one back with 1:21 to play.

Jacob Brown tied the game 1:21 into the second, but Bryce Young restored Red Lake’s one-goal lead, putting the puck past Thunder Bay goalie Brock Aiken for his Superior International Junior Hockey Leauge-leading 43rd goal of the season.

Mike Iatridis made it 4-2 with just over three minutes left in the middle frame.

Auger, who tops all players with 46 assists, has 12 points in his past three outings and his 62 points put him one behind Mignault for second in the SIJHL, who is six points back of Young. Mignault has scored at least three points in four straight games and has 14 points over that stretch.

Red Lake dropped to 24-12-2.

The North Stars take on Fort Frances on Tuesday afternoon in the SIJHL Showcase, hosted by the Minnesota Iron Rangers in Hoyt Lakes, Minn.



Leith Dunick

About the Author: Leith Dunick

A proud Nova Scotian who has called Thunder Bay home since 2002, Leith is Dougall Media's director of news, but still likes to tell your stories too. Wants his Expos back and to see Neil Young at least one more time. Twitter: @LeithDunick
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