NOJHL announces Timmins – Cochrane 1st round playoff series schedule

SUDBURY, Ont. – The Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League announced Friday the game schedule for the first round East Division quarter-final series between the Timmins Rock and the Cochrane Crunch.

Game 1 of this best-of-three survivor series goes Saturday at 7 p.m. at McIntyre Arena before shifting to Tim Horton Events Centre in Cochrane for Game 2 on Sunday at 6 p.m.

If a third and deciding game is required, it will be held Wednesday, March 13 at 7 p.m. back in Timmins.

The winner of this match-up will then take on the No. 1 seed in the East, the Hearst Lumberjacks, in a best-of-seven divisional semifinal affair.

All NOJHL playoff games will be streamed live online at HockeyTV.com.

East Division quarter-final
No. 4 Timmins Rock vs. No. 5 Cochrane Crunch
Best-of-three series
Game 1: Saturday, March 9 @ Timmins 7 p.m. (McIntyre Arena)
Game 2: Sunday, March 10 @ Cochrane 6 p.m. (Tim Horton Events Centre)
Game 3*: Wednesday, March 13 @ Timmins 7 p.m. (McIntyre Arena)
*-if necessary