Golden Hawks, Menace hold 3-1 leads in conference finals
The Trenton Golden Hawks and Milton Menace can qualify for the 2025 Ontario Junior Hockey League Championship Series with wins Sunday night.
Both teams hold three-games-to-one leads in their respective best-of-seven conference championship series.
EAST CONFERENCE
Trenton defeated the Haliburton County Huskies 4-2 in Haliburton Saturday afternoon. Thomas Kuipers, Taeo Artichuk, Joey Brehmer and Trevor McDowell scored for the Golden Hawks, who held period leads of 2-1 and 3-2.
Nathan Poole and Isaac Larmand scored for Haliburton County.
The Hawks outshot the Huskies 44-42.
Game 5 will be played Sunday at 6:30 p.m. in Trenton.
If necessary, the Huskies will host Game 6 on Tuesday. Game 7 would be played Thursday in Trenton.
The Huskies, who normally play at the S.G. Nesbitt Memorial Arena in Minden, have been hosting playoff games in their adopted home rink in Haliburton this month. The Minden arena has been used as a warming centre following an ice storm that hit the area in late March. The Township of Minden Hills announced Friday that “some regular and registered programming” at the Nesbitt Arena will resume Monday.
WEST CONFERENCE
Milton defeated the Leamington Flyers 4-1 in Milton Friday night to take a three-games-to-one lead in the West final.
Game 5 in the best-of-seven series goes Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in Leamington.
If necessary, Game 6 would be played Tuesday in Milton and Game 7 Thursday in Leamington.
The conference champs will meet in the OJHL Championship Series, which will be played between April 18 and May 3, for the Frank L. Buckland Cup.
The Buckland Cup champions advance to the Centennial Cup national championship tournament, May 8-18, 2025 in Calgary, Alberta.
