Jeff Gard/Today’s Northumberland
The Cobourg Cougars earned back-to-back victories Sunday and Monday over the Toronto Warriors to extend their Ontario Junior Hockey League winning streak to nine games.
Toronto’s franchise is the same one that departed Cobourg after a tumultuous 2025-26 season to rebrand as the Warriors. It was the former Haliburton County Huskies that relocated to Cobourg to take over the Cougars franchise and reverse the fortunes of junior A hockey in the community.
Through 20 games during this 2026-27 campaign, the Cougars have 16 wins, three regulation losses and one overtime defeat to sit second in the OJHL’s Eastern Conference.
Following a 4-2 win Sunday in Toronto, the Cougars pulled out a 3-2 overtime win over the Warriors Monday evening at the Cobourg Community Centre.
Cayden Smith tallied all three goals for the Cougars, including the winner on a power play 39 seconds into the extra frame.
Cobourg heads to Linday on Friday night to take on the Muskies (3-13-2) at 7 p.m.
Sunday evening, the Cougars will face the host Trenton Golden Hawks (8-11-2) against former captain and coach Connor Armour at the Duncan McDonald Memorial Gardens at 6:30 p.m. The Trenton lineup also includes former Cougars Beckett Ewartt, Kaiden Harmon and Wyatt Gregory.
The Cougars return to home ice Monday night when they host the St. Michael’s Buzzers (7-13-2). Game time is 7 p.m. at the CCC.
Author: Jeff Gard
