The Haliburton County Huskies have shaken things up with an early season trade.
Coach Ryan Ramsay said, “We’ve had inconsistent goaltending all year and we just made a trade to bring in a goaltender.”
To date, Vlad Visan and Logan Kennedy have been between the pipes but neither has a lot of OJHL experience.
The blue and white have brought in Brett Fullerton, a 2004, 19-year-old that played in Saginaw with the OHLs Spirit.
“He’s played probably 20 games in the O, he played junior B last year. He’s got a good resume. He’s a big boy at 6’4”. He’s just a veteran goalie,” the general manager said.
“I think Vlad only played 20 games last year in our league and Logan didn’t play any, so it’s something we needed to address.”
They also traded Declan Bowmaster to Collingwood for Fullerton and Nicholas Lamont. “He played for the Patriots last year and played really well against us in the series,” Ramsay. “So, he’s a good player. He’s the same age as Declan. He’s a 2005 but last year he had 40 points, 17 goals. It’s a good move for us.”
“We’re bringing in two veterans… we needed to get a little more consistent in all three zones.”
Menace 5 Huskies 2
Milton got on the board first Oct. 24 with a powerplay goal at 11:23 of the first. They made it 2-0 with an early second period shorthanded goal.
The Huskies got on the board when Lucas Stevenson fired in his fourth of the year, from Ethan Wright and Lucas Vacca at 8:01. Patrick Saini then scored his 11th at 11:48, from Vacca and Ty Petrou.
But it was all Menace from there as they scored three in a row to put the game away, including an empty netter.
Huskies 3 Golden Hawks 1
On Sunday, Oct. 22, the blue and white travelled to Trenton to take on the Golden Hawks, emerging 3-1 victors.
After a scoreless first period, Trenton got on the board first with a goal by Charlie Key at the 6:58 mark.
However, the Huskies answered back 32 second later, as Saini fired in his 10th goal of the season, assisted by Vacca.
Johnathon Mead then put the visitors up 2-1 with his third tally of the season, at 16:30, with helpers going to Charlie Fink and Vacca.
Vacca put it away with an empty netter late in the third, unassisted, to give the Huskies the 3-1 win. Logan Kennedy turned aside 27 of 28 shots.
Tigers 4 Huskies 2
On Friday, Oct. 20, the Huskies were in Aurora for a tilt with the Tigers.
They found themselves down three goals early in the second period and Visan got the yank after giving up three goals on six shots.
Haliburton County came back with back-toback second period goals. First Vacca scored at 6:38, from Isaac Larmand and Antonio Cerqua. Then, just 16 seconds later, Cerqua fired one in from Larmand and Josh Rumolo. It was a 3-2 game heading into the third.
But the Tigers scored early, at 4:46, as the Huskies dropped the road game.
NEXT UP:
On Saturday, Oct. 28, it’s pink in the rink day. The team has pink jerseys and socks. Breast cancer survivor, Minden Hills deputy mayor Lisa Schell will drop the puck at 4 p.m. There’ll be a prostate cancer game Nov. 25 with a jersey auction.
