January was a cold month for the Durham Junior Lightning as they were frozen out from wins in a four game stretch.

On January 15, the Lightning travelled to Lakeshore Lions Arena to take on the Etobicoke Junior Dolphins and were shut out, in a 5-0 loss. Chantal Bicket and Victoria Powers shared goalie duties with Powers recording the loss.

Last week's games against the Hamilton Junior Hawks (Jan 8), the Cambridge Junior Fury (Jan 9) and the Markham Junior Stars (Jan 12) were a tough trio for the Junior Lightning.

The first tilt, against Hamilton, was a road game and played on small ice at Inch Park. Tiffany Toong put the Lightning on the scoreboard at 3:46 in the first, off assists from Katie Gaskin and Candace Robbescheuten, but the Lightning was not able to prevent goals from Hamilton in both the first and second period, leaving them with a 1:2 deficit. Chantal Bicket stopped 32 shots.

The Durham Junior Lightning made it a weekend road trip to play two games against the Ottawa Jr Senators at the Senisplex on the January 2-3 weekend.

Saturday's game was marked by two goals from Canadace Robbescheuten. The first was in the first period, assisted by Gillian Morgan and was a short-handed goal. This put Durham on the scoreboard first but the goal was unfortunately answered back by Ottawa with two first period goals. Facing some penalty trouble in the second, Durham fell behind an additional goal.

On Dec 23rd, the Durham Junior Lightning hosted their annual Alumni Game and once again it was a fun evening filled with former players, the current Junior team, and even some Midget call-ups to round out both rosters.

Durham players from many U.S. and Canadian rosters came to play as well as a number of Alumni who have completed their university careers. It was wonderful to see players from Canadian National teams skating back on their 'home' ice and enjoying being, once again, a part of their hockey roots.

Once again, the Durham Junior Lightning has had NCAA coaches come calling and two of this year's roster, Jennifer Lawrence and Katie Gaskin will be skating as freshman next year at two different U.S. universities.

For Lawrence, the choice was one of following in her father's footsteps as, after checking a number of Division One Ivy League possibilities, she selected Yale University. Her father Gary had attended there, making it a familiar and logical choice.