A trip to the land of the Great One re-ignited the scoring abilities of the Wellington Dukes.

After the locals were stymied in Toronto two Sundays back, leaving it 2-1 to the host Jr. Canadiens, the Dukes found the back of the net with some regularity on Thursday night in Brantford, and again at home against Mississauga Friday night. They moved their record to 9-7-2.

A NOSE FOR THE NET- Dukes Capitan Connor Hunt leads all Wellington goal scorers with 11. (Jason Parks/Gazette Staff)

The club’s ninth win of the season on Friday at Lehigh Arena where Wellington scorched the Chargers with seven goals —and that number could have been further inflated if not for the work of opposing net minder Sebastian Moncada. Wellington directed 50 volleys towards the Mississauga mesh mansion as Mr. Moncada was left to his own devices on many occasions.

The Dukes would lead 4-1 after 20 minutes. Four different Dukes lit the lamp. Zander Latreille, Ethan Quick, Connor Hunt and Sacha Trudel managed tallies in the first. Mississauga’s Shawn Costello had the lone bright spot for the visitors.

In the second, Wellington well could have been ahead by more than a handful, but credit the Chargers’ goalie with making 15 stops, many of the sensational kind. Wellington could not squeeze a pea past the visiting goalie in the frame and the frustrations led to a Chargers power play goal by Colin Crowley inside the final two minutes of the period.

Up 4-2 in the third, the Dukes erased any doubt who would win on this night as Mr. Hunt and William Mitchell both scored in the opening five minutes, moving the score to 6-2. The Chargers tacked on a power play goal at the midway point but Mr. Latreille would set up Mr. Mitchell for his second of the period to close the scoring at 7-3.

A night earlier in Brantford against the 99ers, the Dukes needed a period to shake off the bus legs but the contest was all Wellington over the final 40 minutes. Down 1-0 after one in front of 90 souls inside the Wayne Gretzky Sports Complex, Dimitri-Alexander Tzaferis would solve host netminder Aiden Berry 68 seconds into the second to square the affair at 1-1. Just under two minutes later, it was Mr. Mitchell with his 4th of the campaign to give Wellington a lead they would never relinquish.

In the third, the Dukes would pull away with a pair of power play goals from Ben Vreugdenhil and Cory Jewitt to make it a 4-1 final.

The Dukes entertained Stouffeville on Sunday and visit Georgetown Oct. 25 and North York Oct.29.