Monday October 29th 2007
Majors vent on offensive end; Score 13 goals following frustrating loss

The Timmins Majors don't like the taste of defeat. Following a 6-2 loss to the North Bay Trappers on Saturday night, the Majors were eager to rid themselves of the bitter flavor and they did so with an offensive outburst to beat the New Liskeard Cubs 13-1 on Sunday.
The Majors scored early and often at McIntyre Arena, led by a four-goal performance from Justin Goulet, who scored the first goal on a penalty shot. Goulet beat Cubs goalie Andrew Selbie with a neat deke to his forehand side to avoid a poke check to put the Majors up 1-0.
Goulet added two goals in the second period and another in the third period to put an exclamation on offence. "We blew out two points yesterday for the loss and we needed this game for the end of the season," Goulet said. "We had a talk before the game and it helped us out. Coach told us to smarten up.  "We just needed to get on our game."
The crowd was in for a treat, as another penalty shot was awarded to the Cubs shortly after Goulet's first goal. Goalie Trevor McGee made sure that the net minder won that battle though, as he shut the door on Jordan Brazeau.
Three goals were scored by the Majors in each of the first two periods before scoring seven in the final frame. Michael Fink's goal in the third period completed his hat trick. It was sweet redemption for the poor outing the night before, he said. "Last night was a bad game for sure," he said. "This afternoon we were working hard and shooting a lot on net. "We don't have the most goals in the league, but we get a lot of shots and usually capitalize on the power plays."
Power play or not, the Majors had their way offensively on Sunday, all the while with Saturday night's game in the back of their head. "Last night was like Halloween," head coach Murray McGee said. "It was scary. We didn't play at all and just gave up the two points.
"I told them we have to use our head. We have to come out strong every period. We can't come out and play half the period or half the shift. We have to come out hard throughout the shift because nobody in this league is going to give us two points. We have to work for them. Today, we worked for them and the end result was two points." As for the goal production, McGee said that the Majors are as good as any squad in the league. Having scored only two goals in each of their last three games, McGee said it was due time that the Majors ran up the score like some of the stronger teams have been doing. "I'm certainly not going to hold my team back after six or seven," he said. "The other teams are doing it and so are we. We're going to score as many as we can. It's a good confidence booster." The victory also broke a three-game losing streak.
Saturday: Trappers 6, Majors 2
The Majors scored twice in the first period, but failed to score the rest of the game. Ryan Ouellet gave the Majors a 1-0 lead, and when that advantage elapsed, he scored again to give his team a 2-1 lead. Before the end of the first period, the Trappers tied the game. They went on to score a goal in the second period and three in the third. Goal scorers for the Trappers were Mitchell Davis, James Olivier, Casey Restoule, Ryan Leckie, Nick Huard and Darnell Koosees.
Majors show no rust following two-week layoff

Despite a two-week layoff, the Timmins Majors picked up where they left off, defeating the New Liskeard Cubs 4-3 in New Liskeard on Friday.
The win extends the Majors' win streak to three games in Great North Midget League regular-season play.
The Majors entered the third period down 2-1, but rallied for the victory.
The Cubs opened the scoring 1:28 into the game. Riley Dupuis got credit for the goal.
Ryan Ouellet evened the game up 10 minutes later with helpers from Randell Rickard and Joshua Morin.
The Cubs would regain their one-goal advantage before the period was up on an Andre Brock marker.
After a scoreless second period, Rickard knotted the game at 2-2 less than one minute into the third frame.
Justin Goulet's goal gave the Majors their first lead of the game, scoring five minutes later with the assist going to Rickard, the team's leading scorer with three goal and four assists.
Tyler Miller scored just 19 seconds later to even the game up once again.
The game-winning goal came off the stick of Eric Allarie with 2:14 remaining in the game. Aaron Martyn assisted on the goal.
The Major midgets (3-1-0) lace up the skates again next Friday for a grudge match in New Liskeard (0-5-0).
Majors ground Flyers with convincing win

The Timmins Majors earned their second win of the season on Friday, handing the Kapuskasing Flyers a crushing 8-2 loss.
The visiting Majors jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first period on Tyler McGee's unassisted goal, but the lead was eliminated when Michael Cave scored a short-handed goal to even things up.
Before the first period was through, however, Justin Goulet and Randell Rickard scored goals to put the Majors up for good. Both goals were in the final two minutes of the frame, with Rickard's goal coming on the penalty kill.
Aaron Martyn, Justin Lafleur, Byron Katapaytuk, Ryan Wildman and Rickard would supply the remainder of the team's eight goals.
Eric Della-Pieta would notch the Flyer's other marker.
Ryan Beaudoin was in net for the Flyers, while Trevor McGee earned the win for the Majors.
The Flyers have lost each of their five regular-season games, but get another shot at icing their first victory on Saturday against the Nickel City Sons at home.
Following a 11-1 loss to the Sudbury Nickel Capitals in the season opener, the Majors have won two-straight - 5-4 against he Kirkland Lake Legion '87s and now the Flyers.
They will have to wait until Oct. 5 for their third victory of the season when they travel to New Liskeard to play the Cubs.
Major clean up effort; Midget hockey team volunteers time to help Get Timmins Clean
Posted By Brandon Walker

The Timmins Majors 'AAA' midget hockey club showed a strong team effort on Sunday morning, although it wasn't on the ice. Seventeen members from the team took part in the Timmins Get Clean event in the old Canadian Tire plaza.
The Majors walked away with numerous bags of litter and even an abandoned bicycle.
"It feels good to help out," said 16-year-old Tyler McGee, captain of the team. "The guys are really getting a lot done. It's good for the community although we've been surprised at just how dirty it really is ... it's not good for the environment at all."
Assistant captain Byron Katapaytuk said he picked up at least five grocery bags full of trash.
"Cigarette butts and boxes, bottles, styrofoam, boxes from Wendys, all kinds of stuff," he said.
Colleen Landers, executive secretary for the Majors, said players learn to help the community and "not to litter."
"We're going to be doing more and more community hours on weekends when they don't play," she said. "It would be great if schools took the same initiative."
The players wandered the parking lot and sidewalk with a shopping cart, filling it with bags and bags of trash.
One player, proud of the work he'd put in, called his bagful his Stanley Cup.
"It's going to stay with me for the rest of the day," he said with a laugh.
Parents of the players also volunteered to help.
"I can't believe that much came out of one area," said Cathy Wildman, mother Majors player Ryan Wildman. "I picked up lumber and bricks and tonnes of coffee cups and plastic lids."
Wildman said it felt good to take part.
"I wasn't expecting we'd pick up a truck load of garbage," she said. "It's nice to clean up the litter when you start ciphering through the long grass, but sad that it's in that condition."
Most of the volunteers were amazed by the amount of litter found.
"We must've picked up 35 or 36 Gatorade bottles out of that bush," Landers said to organizer Rick Cecconi.
"The scary thing is we cleaned that area in June," Cecconi responded.
At the Mac's Milk store on Algonquin, eight-year-old Anthony Zordan was picking up litter near the fence with his mom and older sister, Gabriella, when he found a $10 bill.
"He could've kept it but he wants to give it to Rick to buy more garbage bags," said his mom, Helene Trahan, while riding the bus back to Gillies Lake, where the cleanup began.
Linda Jackson could've slept in Sunday, but her daughter Caroline convinced her to join the cleanup crew.
"This is my exercise for the day," she said. "Normally, I walk."
Jackson said everyone who participated in the cleanup has a really big heart.
She ended up outside a downtown pub, cleaning up cigarette butts.
"It wasn't so bad," Jackson said.
Liberal candidate Pat Boucher also volunteered his time.
"I'm here to support a good idea," he said. "It's always nice to see so many people out volunteering."
Boucher said he likes helping out.
"I know how hard it can be to get volunteers."
Cecconi was more than happy with the turnout.
"It's overwhelming really," he said. "We had 125 people and picked up 2,574 grocery bags full of garbage."
Ceconni said more students showed up than during three previous cleanups.
"It shows teachers, students and schools are becoming more aware," he said.
He was presented with a plaque recognizing his and wife Debbie's efforts by Mayor Tom Laughren and Chantal Gelinas from Positively Timmins.
The next cleanup will be held Oct. 21.
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Majors storm back for well-earned 5-4 win; Outshoot visitors 22-1 in final period
Posted By Keith Lacey

Whatever the players and coaching staff with the Timmins Majors said to each other in the dressing room between the second and third period of their Great North Midget League game Friday night, they should tape it and be prepared to use those same fighting words again because they worked magically.
After waltzing through two periods, not playing well and rightfully trailing the Kirkland Lake Legion 87's 4-2 after two periods, the Majors stormed back in the third period, absolutely dominating the visitors.
Actually domination might not be a strong enough adjective as the Majors outshot Kirkland Lake 22-1 over the final 20 minutes and were very deserving of a hard-fought, come-from-behind 5-4 victory.
"We had a good talk between the second and third periods," said Majors head coach Murray McGee. "The guys put their heads together and we regrouped. I let the third-year guys take over and our leaders had a lot to say, the guys came out on a mission in the third period and our experience paid off."
Defenceman Ryan Ouellet ended up being the hero, scoring on a breakaway with just 2:18 remaining in regulation time.
Captain Tyler McGee, who had an outstanding game scoring once and adding two assists, chipped a nice little clearing pass over a defender's stick. Ouellett raced to a loose puck and scored the winner by making a beautiful backhand deke and beating Kirkland Lake goaltender Matt Madden with a high backhand.
Byron Katapaytuk got the Majors within striking distance jamming home a rebound only 15 seconds into the third period.
Katapaytuk and McGee tied things up at 4-4 just over four minutes into the third period on a pretty give-and-go goal, where McGee one-timed a beautiful pass and drilled a high wrist shot to the top corner.
It was all Majors in the third period as they stormed the Kirkland Lake defensive zone.
The third period was so dominating in favour of Timmins, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say Kirkland Lake barely touched the puck over the final 20 minutes.
Coach McGee said his son and Katapaytuk are leaders on his hockey club and they both played exceptionally well all night, but especially in the final period when the Majors turned things around. "Tyler is our captain and leader and he played awfully well tonight, especially in the third period when Kirkland Lake had a tough time handling him down low," he said. "He and Byron work very well together and they sure played a strong game."
Referee Dave Conlon had a busy night calling 78 minutes in penalties, including 40 against the visitors, who were shorthanded much of the third period as they couldn't handle the pressure being applied by the Majors. They had to resort to clutching, grabbing and holding to try and prevent quality scoring chances.
After getting whipped 11-1 on home ice to start of the Great North Midget League season last weekend, this was a big game and big win for his young squad, said coach McGee.
"After getting whipped so bad last week, this is certainly a big confidence-booster for our hockey club," he said. "We didn't want to lose two in a row on home ice to start off the season.
"We'll certainly take the two points and hopefully we can build on this."
McGee, the talented captain who had planned on playing down in southern Ontario this season before changing his mind and committing to the Majors, said the players were not happy with their performance over the first 40 minutes and knew they weren't playing well enough to win.
But a good talk between the second and third periods changed things around.
"We put the first two periods behind us and all we talked about was getting more shots to the net in the third period and outworking them," he said. "It obviously worked as the final shots in the third period were 22-1.
"We played the way we can over the final period and it ended up with a nice win."
Katapaytuk said the comeback win was all about playing harder and smarter.
"We just had a lot more heart and effort in the final period than we had in the first two periods," he said. " We just worked hard, played smart and made some nice plays and we got the goals we needed."
Frankie Hart had a good game for Kirkland Lake, scoring both first-period goals.
He also added an assist in the second period on a goal by Chris Walraven. Trevor Denault had the other goal for the visitors.
Justin Goulet and Michael Fink scored for the Majors in the first period.
The Majors have a week off before they travel to Kapuskasing next Friday evening to battle the Flyers.