The Niverville Nighthawks are on a seven-game winning streak. The team continued their current road trip with a 3–1 win over the Northern Manitoba Blizzard on Saturday night. With the win, the Nighthawks remain in fourth place in the MJHL’s East Division with a record of 29–13–3.
After giving up the game’s first goal halfway through the opening period, the Nighthawks rallied in the later stages of the frame by scoring three goals in five minutes. Those goals were scored by Matthew Bertolin, Matteo Speranza, and Dawson Zeller.
The Blizzard charged the rest of the night and threw shot after shot toward the Niverville goal, but Niverville’s Austin Dubinsky kept the puck stayed out. There were no more goals for either side in the second or third periods and the game ended 3–1 in the Nighthawks’ favour.
Dubinsky stopped 52 shots in goal for the win, in perhaps his best performance of the year.
“It was a great win, in that we may have bent, but we did not break,” says Nighthawks head coach Dwight Hirst. “We can have nights like tonight that test our team’s resiliency. And our goalie Austin was amazing tonight. Sometimes you need a performance like that from your goalie and they steal the victory, which was just fantastic.”
The Nighthawks are back in action with another road game against the Dauphin Kings this afternoon. The puck drops at 4:00 p.m.
