Gradually adding to their offensive arsenal since the drop of the puck to the 2025-2026 NOJHL (Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League) season, there is now a relentlessness to the Greater Sudbury Cubs' attack that is creating all sorts of headaches for opposing teams.

Registering yet another 60 shot effort Saturday night on the road (69 SOG - to be precise), the Cubs blasted the Kirkland Lake Gold Miners 9-3 as the line of Nolan Newton (3G + 2A), Briir Long (G + 4A) and Mason Walker (G + 2A) accounted for a great deal of the damage.

Owen King, Eidan Macartney, Aleksander Duguay and Jonathan Varela, with his first NOJHL tally, rounded out the scoring for the winners who led 3-1 after the first and 5-3 heading to the third before really pouring it on.

Lex Lamontagne, Matthew Newmann and Vaive Hickey all hit the mark for the Gold Miners as Matthew Vahramian recorded 27 saves in recording the win between the pipes.

To suggest that the Sudbury lads are starting to find their groove is something of an understatement.

In winning six of seven games this month, the locals have outscored teams 50-16 and have now overtaken the Hearst Lumberjacks in a race that, at this moment, remains ultra tight: Sudbury (35); Hearst (34); Espanola (33); Soo Thunderbirds (32) and Timmins (31).