Game 6, Sutherland Cup Championship Series
Chatham Maroons 6
St. Catharines Falcons 3
(CHA wins best-of-7 series 4-2)
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Maroons win second Sutherland Cup title in franchise history
The Chatham Maroons scored 4 goals in a a span of 3:10 in the second period and went on to defeat the St. Catharines Falcons 6-3 in front of 819 fans at the Seymour-Hannah S.E.C. in St. Catharines. With the win, the Maroons claimed their second Sutherland Cup title in franchise history, the other coming in 1999.
VIDEO: Maroons score 4 goals in 3 minutes, go on to claim Sutherland Cup title
After a scoreless first period, the Maroons jumped out to a 4-0 lead in just over three minutes early in the second on goals from Connor Hunt (10), Carter Chadwick (14), Eamon Edgar (8), and Hunt’s second of the game. The goals by Chadwick and Edgar came 17 seconds apart.
The Falcons fought back into the game with three straight goals to make it 4-3 on goals from Brendan Grenville (10), Nathan Duplessis (11) and William Moore (4); but the Maroons held on and sealed the title with empty net goals from Chadwick and Noah Mathieson (6).
Captain Blain Bacik — the only player remaining from the Maroons team that lost to the Falcons in the 2022 final — had the second assist on Chatham’s 6th and final goal of the game.
VIDEO: Chatham captain Blain Bacik hoists the Sutherland Cup
Chadwick, who finished the playoffs with 24 points and a league-leading 15 goals, was named Most Valuable Player in the 2025 GOJHL Playoffs. His 15 goals are the most by a rookie in the playoffs since Brendan Harrogate scored 17 for the LaSalle Vipers in 2015.
VIDEO: Carter Chadwick is the Most Valuable Player of the GOJHL playoffs
Chadwick and Edgar each finished the series with 7 goals, tying a GOJHL record for most goals scored in a Sutherland Cup final series previously set by DJ Turner of the LaSalle Vipers in their 5-game series win over Elmira in 2010.
Edgar scored in each of the last 4 games of the series. The 15-year-old AP call-up and 2nd round draft pick of the Barrie Colts, added two assists for his fourth 3-point game of the series. His 14 points in the series set a new GOJHL Sutherland Cup finals record, surpassing the old record of 11 points set by Turner in 2010 and Josh MacDonald of the Elmira Sugar Kings in 2011.
Maroons netminder Gannon Hunter (W, 16-8) made 25 saves. Hunter’s 16 playoff wins are the most by a rookie goaltender since Matt Onuska won 20 for the Sutherland Cup champion Waterloo Siskins in 2019 (when there was an extra round of playoffs).
Hayden Jeffery (L, 14-7) stopped 29 of 33 shots faced for the Falcons.
The Maroons are the first team to score 6 or more goals in three games of a Sutherland Cup final since the Caledonia Corvairs in their four-game sweep of the London Nationals in 2016.
With the 9 goals scored in Game 6, the two teams set a GOJHL record with a combined 56 goals in a Sutherland Cup Final series, surpassing the previous record of 52 goals in the 2019 final between Waterloo and London, won by the Siskins in 7 games.
The Maroons went 6-6 on the road in the playoffs and finished with an overall record of 16-9. The Falcons were 8-3 at home and 14-7 overall.
The Maroons were 0/2 on the power play and were 8/21 (38.1%) in the series. The Falcons were 1/1 with the man advantage and were 3/18 (16.7%) in the series.
The Chatham Maroons are the 19th franchise to have won at least two Sutherland Cup championships.
The 6-3 score in Game 6 is identical to the final score in the Maroons’ win in Game 7 of the 1999 Sutherland Cup against the Stratford Cullitons
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