As part of my role as team statistician for the Sudbury Wolves, my job description includes the preparation of weekly media notes, featuring various tidbits of information regarding upcoming games.

While these notes have generally been confined to circulating among media types and club officials, it seemed likely that fans of the local OHL team might also have an interest in the odds and ends that I might come across on a weekly basis.

The Sudbury Wolves have not lost four straight games all year – though avoiding that fate Friday night at home will not come easy. The top team in the entire OHL provides the opposition in the form of the London Knights. Still, this Wolves team have proven themselves battle worthy since day one of regular season play.

In fact, on only eight occasions of their 20 losses during the 2024-2025 campaign have the Wolves been unable to follow up a loss with a win.

There is no denying that the decade if the eighties was a rough one to be a die-hard fan of the Sudbury Wolves – but for as much as the London Knights have given the nickel city juniors fits in recent times, the fact remains that Sudbury reeled off 11 straight wins at home over the Knights between March 17th (1978) and December 1st (1981).

There is no lack of high-scoring affairs between these two teams over the years, with double digit encounters not all that hard to find. Yet it was less than five years ago when goaltenders Christian Purboo (Sudbury) and Brett Brochu (London) combined to turn aside 53 of the 54 shots that they face on December 20th (2019) as Jonathan Gruden snapped a scoreless tie midway through the third, lifting the visiting Knights past the Wolves 1-0.

Hopefully Wolves’ fans looking to make the trip to North Bay on Sunday are not in any rush to hit the road back home. On (Sunday) October 20th, the teams needed overtime to settle matters before Kieron Walton scored an end to end beauty, lifting the visitors to a 4-3 win.

Roughly one month later, it was time for the Battalion to return to favour as a goal from Jacob LeBlanc in the final minute of play forced overtime, with Owen Van Steensel giving the homeside a 6-5 victory just over three minutes into period number four. In fact, three of the last four meetings in North Bay between these teams has extended beyond sixty minutes of play.