The Greater Sudbury Cubs may have seen their unbeaten streak snapped at 16 games over the course of this past weekend - but that most certainly does not mean that a three in three trek through the Great White North of the NOJHL (Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League) was all for naught.

A 5-2 win on Friday night over the second place Hearst Lumberjacks meant that by the end of the weekend, the Cubs had all but clinched first place overall in the NOJHL this year, now nine points up on both Hearst and the Timmins Rock.

While Hearst has six games remaining, both Sudbury and Timmins have four - so mathematically speaking, there remains some hope for those clubs chasing down the two-time league champions.

The Cubs, however, continue to look like a squad for whom the regular season crown is now but a formality, spotting the Lumberjacks a 2-0 but storming back with markers from Caden Dubrueil (2), Mason Walker, Owen King and Daks Klinkhammer in chopping down Hearst at home.

Luc Warner and Nathan Seed made for a very short night for Sudbury starter Iain Wintle, pulled just 5:39 into the game. Matthew Vahramian stopped all 14 shots that he faced in picking up the win as the visitors clamped things down defensively.

The Cubs looked sluggish the next night in Iroquois Falls, leading the Storm by a score of 2-1 heading into the third period despite the 45 point margin between the teams in league standings.

The gap was very much apparent in period three as Sudbury scored six unanswered goals to run away from the Storm, 7-1.

Caden Dubrueil made it four goals in two nights with another pair of snipes, joined on the scoresheet by Owen King (2), Aidan Macartney (2) and Lucas Antonioni, with Alexandre St Pierre countering in a losing cause.

All good things must eventually come to an end and for the Cubs, their winning ways were terminated thanks to a 6-2 loss to the Timmins Rock Sunday afternoon at the McIntyre Arena as Iain Wintle again failed to survive the opening period of play.

Spencer Horgan got Sudbury on the board early with a power-play marker just 2:31 in but Timmins answered with goals from Maxx Hamelin, Lucas Lowe and Evan Katic, all in the first.

Maxfeld Shin drilled home the only goal of the middle stanza, making the score 4-1 and though Horgan would narrow the lead to just two with his second of the game, counter-strikes from former Cubs' defenseman/forward Brady Bouchard and an empty-netter from Kaiden Mcarthur sealed the win for the homeside.

The Cubs are back in action at home this week, welcoming the Soo Thunderbirds to the Gerry McCrory Sports Complex on Thursday and then visiting the Powassan Voodoos the very next night.