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Lakehead to visit Nipissing this weekend

Thu Oct 31, 2024
Written by Paul Wehrstedt
Photo by James Mirabelli

Lakehead to visit Nipissing on Saturday night.

Lakehead will be looking to turn things around on Saturday night in North Bay when they play the Lakers.

Lakehead is coming off 2 stunning losses to the TMU Bold this past weekend.

Nipissing has not had the start to the season that they were looking for and are looking to get there footing as they are in the midst of a 4 game losing streak.

Lakehead is 7-1-1 all time vs the Lakers and have outscored them 41-21 in those contests.

Justin Paul, Nicholas De Grazia, Nikolas Campbell and Spencer Blackwell have been shouldering the offence in the last 4 games scoring a combined 8 out of 11 of Lakehead goals.

Nipissing is lead by Junior forward Charlie Johnson who has 5G and 5A for 10PTS in 8 games this season.

In net the Lakers are lead by Reece Proulx with a 1-2 record and sporting a 2.34 G.AA and a .930 Save percentage.

Lakehead's powerplay is operating at 12.8 percent and the penalty kill is 73.9 percent.

Nippissing's powerplay is at 18.8 percent and their penalty kill is 84.2 percent.

Lakehead returns home Nov 8 and 9 to host the Nipissing Lakers with game time of 7pm both nights.