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Todd Howarth says it’s back to square one for the Thunder Bay North Stars.

THUNDER BAY -- Dudley Coulter is ready for a breakthrough. The Marathon, Ont., skier finished seventh at the 2012, 10-kilometre classic race at nationals last year, the top under-23 skier in the event.

The Lakehead Thunderwolves have parted company with defenceman Danick Malouin.

Hockey is Canada’s game and Thunder Bay is a hockey town.

Adam Sergerie completed a furious late-game comeback Saturday night, scoring the late third-period winner to give Lakehead a weekend sweep over defending national champion McGill. But it was Mike Hammond who made it all possible.

If only they were all this easy. Yoosrie Salhia and Ryan Thomson were at it again on Saturday, delivering an 80-53 rout of the Dickinson State Blue Hawks at the Wesmen Classic in Winnipeg.

Jon Kreiner wants his team to shoot from outside the arc. In fact, seeing 30 or more three-point attempts a night would suit him just fine. But for the strategy to work, a few of them have to find their way to the bottom of the net.

Keith Grondin played the role of a post-Christmas Grinch against the defending national champion McGill Redmen on Saturday night.

Yoosrie Salhia and the Lakehead Thunderwolves picked up where they left off. Salhia banged home 22 points and added nine rebounds on Friday, pacing the Wolves to a 90-50 win over the University of Northern B.C. Timberwolves.

Carolyn Fragale is chalking it up to mental fatigue. She’s hoping they can recover by Saturday. The basketball Wolves, who on Friday were trounced 77-52 at the CIS Thunder Selects Holiday Classic, have non-conference dates with St.