The Timmins Rock’s seventh-straight win allowed them to vault into fifth place in the NOJHL standings, on Sunday.

And the Rock (13-5-0-1) find themselves just two points behind the fourth-place Paper Kings (14-8-0-1) and they have four games in hand on Espanola.

In fact, the standings don’t reflect the real story since Timmins has played the fewest games in the NOJHL to this point in the campaign.

If you rank the teams by winning percentage, the Rock (.711) trail only the NOJHL-leading Hearst Lumberjacks (.773).

Sunday’s victims, the French River Rapids dropped an 8-2 decision to the Rock — a slightly better result than the 12-0 setback they suffered against the Lumberjacks in Hearst, Saturday night.

Sunday afternoon’s victory meant a lot more than two points in the standings, as the

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