Five scoreless periods to end your campaign won’t get you to the Richardson Division Final in the EOJHL.
The Arnprior Packers were blanked on home ice Monday, and it’s the Renfrew Junior Timberwolves who advance to play the Smiths Falls Junior Bears- a schedule has yet to be posted.
Renfrew, the last Eastern Ottawa Valley team to hoist the Barkley Cup in 1993 keeps its hopes alive to do so again- and for the Green Shirts, chalk it up to experience.
That’s Arnprior Packers President Dustin Dorken, who has a nucleus of young players he’s hoping carries forward to 2026-27.
Arnprior finished the regular season with a 21 point bulge over its division rivals- but may have lost their edge in the layoff that the rest earned them.
Packers did not score since Ethan Smith notched one at the 19:52 mark of the first period in Game Six Sunday.
The home crowd of 415 fans saw a repeat of the 2011-12 campaign, when the high-flying Arnprior Club were eliminated in the Valley Division Final… to the Renfrew Junior Timberwolves.
By Rick Stow
