The Hawks and Weyburn Red Wings faced off in Nipawin Friday. (Clark Stork/northeastNOW Staff)

By Clark Stork

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Hawks one shot shy in shutout loss to Weyburn

Feb 15, 2025 | 1:31 PM

The Weyburn Red Wings were just one shot better than the Hawks Friday night at the Centennial Arena in Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) action.

Nipawin fell 1-0 to the Red Wings with Josh Karman’s first period goal standing up as the game winning tally. Nipawin Assistant Derek Hutton said his group played a great game but couldn’t buy a bounce.

“I thought it was a good performance top to bottom for us,” he said after the game. “We were skating with them on the defensive side, we had our opportunities, we just couldn’t it in the back of the net.”

The Hawks fired 21 shots on Angelo Zol, the Weyburn netminder now has four shutouts on the season. Gage Roberts was equally as steady also making 21 stops with just Karman beating the 18-year-old Fort McMurray, Alta. product at the side of the net. Hutton added that the Hawks are gaining valuable experience in games against the SJHL’s top clubs.

“We’ve had some ups and downs as a team this year so far and when you put an effort in like this, a full 60-minute effort playing as a team, me and Tad [Kozun, head coach] will both sit here and take these losses everyday. It’s a building block for us,” Hutton said.

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Combine the effort with Tuesday’s 4-3 road win in La Ronge the Hawks are set up for another positive week with a strong performance Sunday at home against the Notre Dame Hounds. Hutton said

“If we come out and put our best foot forward and have a good effort at practice tomorrow and come out flying on Sunday it’s two pretty solid weeks of hockey for us,” concluded.

Sunday’s game is a 3 p.m. faceoff at the Centennial Arena.

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