The Sudbury Wolves have gifted themselves a nice little four game winning streak heading into the Christmas break.

The fact that victory number four in this run was sparked by a goaltender making an impressive debut and a veteran who finally seems to be finding his game only makes for an even better bow on top of this present.

With 19 year-old netminder Paolo Frasca turning aside 38 of the 40 shots that he faced in his OHL debut Friday night versus the Guelph Storm and overage forward Alex Pharand netting a hat trick, giving him five goals in his past two games, the Wolves tripled the visitors 6-2, moving to within two points of the Brampton Steelheads and the eighth and final Eastern Conference playoff position.

A scoreless tie that lasted almost the entire first period was snapped when Kieron Walton flipped a pass ahead to Nathan Villeneuve, the captain making no mistake on his breakaway attempt with just 13 seconds to play in the frame.

Sudbury added two more goals early in the second as Rowan Henderson and Alex Pharand hit the mark before Guelph countered, breaking the goose-egg at 10:34 of the second (Carter Stevens) and pulling to within one to start the third (Alex McLean - 0:26).

Pharand would net his second of the game some six minutes later, adding an empty-netter with just under five minutes remaining before Villeneuve capped things off with his 15th of the season.

The Wolves now break for 10 days but then play four games in six days, hosting the Kitchener Rangers (December 30th), visiting the Barrie Colts on New Year's Eve and then meeting up with the North Bay Battalion for a home and home set on January 2nd (in Sudbury) and on Sunday the 4th in North Bay.