The Nipawin Hawks were around the Melville net all night long in a 5-2 victory over the Millionaires on Tuesday in SJHL action. (Submitted photo/Cohen Massier)

By Clark Stork

Going out a winner

Hawks victorious in final road game of season

Mar 13, 2024 | 2:10 PM

The Nipawin Hawks won their final road game of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) Tuesday with a convincing 5-2 win in Melville.

Taking on the Millionaires and former Head Coach Doug Johnson for the final time and facing three straight losses the Hawks took over in the second half of the game to take the season series with the Millionaires.

Nipawin opened the scoring with Chase Visser’s 11^th of the season, Melville responded with a pair going up 2-1, but the Hawks answered with four unanswered goals to pick up the win. Artem Hrabovetskyi tied the game with his 15^th of the season in the first period, Finley Radloff scored the game winner in the second, Braeden Jockims notched his 12^th and Nipawin’s 15^th shorthanded goal of the season. Radloff concluded the scoring with his team leading 22^nd goal of the campaign into an empty net. Head Coach Tad Kozun was very pleased with his team’s performance.

“The first period was back-and-forth, and I didn’t think we were playing our best,” he said on the final postgame show on 750 Beach Radio of the season. “I thought the second period we came out and played a more complete game, we were just executing everything at a higher level.”

The Hawks will conclude their season on Friday at home against the La Ronge Ice Wolves.

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