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The Windsor Spitfires limped right into a back-to-back weekend collection in Sault Ste. Marie towards the Greyhounds and lineup points solely continued to develop.
The Spitfires went into Saturday’s recreation with out main purpose scorer Liam Greentree and top-scoring defenceman Rodwin Dionicio, who’re each injured. Rookie defenceman Carson Woodall can also be sidelined with an damage whereas rookie ahead Jack Nesbitt is away on the World Below-17 Hockey Problem.
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With Saturday’s recreation tied late, the Spitfires misplaced defenceman Josef Eichler, who was handed a match penalty within the remaining minute of regulation for a slew foot that carries an computerized two-game suspension. The Greyhounds scored the game-winning purpose on that energy play with simply seven seconds left in regulation for a 3-2 win on the GFL Memorial Centre.
“We clearly missed a few of our greatest guys this weekend, which might’ve helped loads,” Spitfires overage ahead Oliver Peer stated.
Eichler sat out the primary recreation of his suspension on Sunday and Ryan Abraham, who scored in Saturday’s loss, joined the lengthy listing on the sidelines with an damage.
Two empty-net targets lastly enabled the Greyhounds to tug away from the Spitfires within the remaining minutes in a 5-2 victory.
“I’m actually happy with the hassle and compete degree we confirmed all weekend,” Spitfires’ head coach Jerrod Smith stated. “They gave us an opportunity to get a degree or higher and credit score to the blokes.”
For a group with the worst file within the league, Peer was fast to place back-to-back losses to the West Division-leading Greyhounds in perspective.
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“We’re pleased with our compete and our efforts,” Peer stated. “That’s a superb group over there and we had been in each of these video games.
“On the finish of the day, we wished to get some factors this weekend, however this group is getting higher each recreation and that’s thrilling.”
And the hassle got here towards the No. 2 offence within the league and with rookie defenceman Evan Hjelholt making his OHL debut in each video games and 17-year-old Michael Lavigne being recalled on Sunday for his OHL debut to fill in for Eichler.
“It was a superb weekend,” the 16-year-old Hjelhold stated. “It was numerous enjoyable to be within the lineup and I used to be excited to be within the lineup. It felt good and I used to be pleased with my play. That is only a begin.”
The six-foot-two, 200-pound Hjelholt was Windsor’s prime choose on this 12 months’s OHL Below-18 Draft and has been taking part in junior B in Stratford. The six-foot-five, 200-pound Lavigne, who was Windsor’s sixth-round choose on this 12 months’s OHL Draft, has been taking part in junior B in LaSalle.
“That’s why you’ve got guys in system and capable of come up and contribute and I used to be happy with them taking part in their first video games in league,” Smith stated.
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On Sunday, Peer put the Spitfires up 1-0 after 20 minutes and, after targets from the Greyhounds’ Bryce McConnell-Barker and Jack Beck, rookie Cole Davis pulled Windsor even at 2-2 after two intervals.
Marco Mignosa redirected the game-winning purpose in halfway by the third interval and Arttu Karki and Matthew Virgilio added empty-net targets whereas goalie Ian Michelone was excellent for the Spitfires with 43 saves.
On Saturday, Peer and Abraham sandwiched targets round one from Sault Ste. Marie’s Justin Cloutier to place the Spitfires up 2-1 after 40 minutes.
Travis Hayes tied the sport earlier than Brenden Sirizotti pounced on a rebound for the winner on the late energy play. Goalie Joey Costanzo was a standout in web for the Spitfires with 38 saves.
“The goaltending performances from each guys, it was nice to see them carry out like that towards a extremely good offensive group,” Smith stated. “We confirmed that battle and compete to have the ability to win these video games.”
The Spitfires return to motion at house on Thursday towards the London Knights. Recreation time on the WFCU Centre is 7:05 p.m.
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Recreation Summaries
Sunday Outcome
Greyhounds 5 Spitfires 2
Windsor 1 1 0 – 2
Sault Ste. Marie 0 2 3 – 5
First interval: 1. Windsor, Peer 7 (Cristoforo, Christopoulos) 9:41. Penalties: Spellacy W (hooking) :59, Struthers W (roughing), Clattenburg S (roughing) 8:12, Toms W (delay of recreation) 15:21, Virgilio S (slashing) 19:03.
Second interval: 2. Sault Ste. Marie, McConnell-Barker 5 (Hayes) 6:31, 3. Sault Ste. Marie, Beck 5 (D’Intino, McConnell-Barker) 15:49, 4. Windsor, Davis 4 (Peer, Winegard) 17:01. Penalty: McConnell-Barker S (charging) 7:03.
Third interval: 5. Sault Ste. Marie, Mignosa 3 (Allard, Gibson) 10:55, 6. Sault Ste. Marie, Karki 13 (unassisted) 18:32 (en), 7. Sault Ste. Marie, Virgilio 1 (Evans, Brown) 19:46 (en). Penalties: Struthers W (combating), Clattenburg S (combating) 1:58, Cristoforo W (delay of recreation) 6:45.
Recreation stats – SOG – Windsor 7 13 6 – 26 Sault Ste. Marie 16 14 15 – 45 Purpose (shots-saves) – Windsor: Michelone (L,1-3-1-0) (43-40). Sault Ste. Marie: Miller (W,3-1-0-0) (26-24). Energy play (goals-chances) – Windsor 0-2. Sault Ste. Marie 0-3. Referees: Sean Kimmerly (10) and Kevin McArthur (47). Linesmen: Corey Jackson (56) and Marcus Policicchio (54). Att.: 3,143 at at GFL Memorial Gardens.
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Saturday Outcome
Greyhounds 3 Spitfires 2
Windsor 1 1 0 – 2
Sault Ste. Marie 1 0 2 – 3
First interval: 1. Windsor, Peer 6 (Christopoulos, Davis) 10:45, 2. Sault Ste. Marie, Cloutier 8 (Allard, Clattenburg) 15:55. Penalties: Smith W (hooking) 1:59, Fort W (hooking) 6:14, Beck S (hooking) 11:01, Martin W (cross checking), Clattenburg S (roughing) 13:42, Peer W (excessive sticking) 17:14.
Second interval: 3. Windsor, Abraham 3 (Maillet) 4:16 (pp). Penalties: Virgilio S (cross checking) 2:38, Hayes S (hooking) 14:59, Cristoforo W (hooking) 16:20.
Third interval: 4. Sault Ste. Marie, Hayes 6 (Clattenburg) 7:05, 5. Sault Ste. Marie, Sirizotti 5 (Karki, McConnell-Barker) 19:53 (pp). Penalties: Eichler W (slew-foot main, recreation misconduct) 19:19.
Recreation stats – SOG – Windsor 10 6 5 – 21 Sault Ste. Marie 9 20 12 – 41 Purpose (shots-saves) – Windsor: Costanzo (L,3-7-0-0) (41-38). Sault Ste. Marie: Schenkel (W,8-4-0-0) (21-19). Energy play (goals-chances) – Windsor 1-3. Sault Ste. Marie 1-6. Referees: Damian Figueira (8) and Kevin McArthur (47). Linesmen: Joshua Houslander (88) and Alex Schmidt (48). Att.: 4,804 at at GFL Memorial Gardens.
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