With Ole Man Winter forcing the postponement of Monday night’s game in Sackville between the Blazers and Liverpool, the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League finally got back into action in Port Hawkesbury Tuesday night after a two month delay due to the Omnicron version of Covid.

The Membertou Jr. Miners looked as if they had never left the ice as they dumped the Strait Pirates 8-3 at the Civic Centre.  The Jr. Miners took a 3-0 lead after the first on goals from Blake Cox, Brady MacLean and Logan Snow.  The Strait Pirates stormed back in the second to tie the game at 3-3 on a pair of goals from Quinn McClelland and Logan Saulnier only 24 seconds apart early in the second before Jason Johnson knotted the game at 3-3 with 13:01 to play in the middle period.  The difficult part of the game for the Strait Pirates was the short-handed and game winning goal from the Jr. Miners Josh MacKay only 1:03 after the Pirates and tied the game and Port Hawkesbury never seemed to recoup as Coby McCarron scored the first of his two on the evening to make it 5-3.  In the third, McCarron scored again and single markers were registered by Nathaniel Fuller and Brandon Grant to make the final 8-3.  Cox of the Jr. Miners also registered 2 assists and new teammate Andrew McCarron obtained in a deal with the Valley Maple Leafs was impressive in his first game with the Jr. Miners as he recorded 4 assists.  The Jr. Miners outshot the Pirates 39-38.  The Jr. Miners are now 8-5-2 on the season while the Pirates fell to 7-7-1.  Both teams swing back into action in what will be an exceptionally busy Friday night as the Jr. Miners travel to Cumberland, the Strait Pirates host Antigonish, Liverpool travels to Shearwater to play the Capstone Colts, the Sackville Blazers will be in East Hants while Brookfield travels to Windsor to play the Valley Maple Leafs.