THUNDER BAY — The Timmins Majors’ five-game season-opening winning streak ran into a brick wall at the Fort Williams First Nations Arena over the weekend.
In fact, it morphed into a two-game losing skid, thanks to a pair of setbacks against the Great North U18 League’s newest franchise, the Kings.
After dropping a 4-2 decision to their hosts Saturday night, the Majors were blanked 4-0 Sunday morning.
Kainaan MacGillivray provided the Kings with shutout goaltending in Sunday morning’s contest.
Nathan Caputo’s second goal of the season, 1:31 into the opening period, provided MacGillivray with all the offensive support he would need.
But Owen Bodnar added a second-period tally, his first goal of the season, to double the Kings’ advantage.
Nathan Vita made it a 3-0 hockey game early in t