Christian Humphreys' third-period goal stood as the game winner as Kitchener wins their fifth OHL title.
The sweep is complete.
For the first time since 2008, the Kitchener Rangers are J. Ross Robertson Cup champions, defeating the Barrie Colts in four games.
This was a team that was dominant all postseason, with experience and talent up and down the roster. They'll now head to Kelowna as the OHL's representative for the 2026 Memorial Cup.
Here's how they got there in game four.
Kitchener Rangers celebrate after winning game four of the OHL championship series. (Photo: Charles Warburton/OHL Images)With the chance to close out the series in a sweep, the Rangers made no mistake.
Luca Romano scored in the first to get things going with an absolute snipe in the top right corner of Ben Hrebik's goal. That would stand as the only goal of the first period, as Kitchener stood 40 minutes away from a title.
They'd get closer in the second. The penalty kill that has been so, so good all playoffs long came up big again, with Gabriel Chiarot scoring the team's sixth shorthanded goal this postseason alone.
Barrie would halve the deficit on the same man advantage, though, as Emil Hemming went coast to coast to score an absolute beauty, and get some live in Sadlon Arena.
The score would stay at 2-1 heading into the third. There, the Colts would tie it. It would be Eamon Edgar with his first of the playoffs at a perfect time, getting the game tied at two and keeping Barrie's season alive.
Just over two minutes later, though, it would be Kitchener that would retake the lead. Christian Humphreys has come up with some big goals this postseason, and his 3-2 goal may be the biggest one of his entire life.
As the seconds ticked down, there was no late Colts equalizer like in games two and three to force overtime. Instead, as the J. Ross Robertson Cup was being prepared, Sam O'Reilly made sure it could stay out of its case, and sunk home an empty netter to seal the game and the series for the Rangers.
That would be that, and the teams played out the last 16 seconds before Kitchener erupted into the celebration of their first title since 2008.
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