The Guelph Storm proceed their robust play at dwelling.
The Storm scored twice within the second interval and held on to beat the visiting Niagara Ice Canines 3-2 Friday night time at Sleeman Centre.
The win snaps a two-game dropping streak whereas bettering their dwelling document to 6-2-0-0.
The sport-winning purpose got here off the stick of veteran blueliner Brayden Hislop, who acquired a feed from Jeff Luchanko and shot it from the excessive slot previous Niagara goaltender Marcus Vandenberg (32 saves).
“Hopefully, I’ll do this a few extra instances this season,” joked Hislop, who recorded his first purpose of the season within the recreation.
“It’s additionally good to pot one in. It was good to get that one out of the best way for certain.”
Charlie Paquette (8) and Max Namestnikov (10) had the opposite targets for the Storm (11-8-0-0) who proceed to generate probabilities and get pucks to the online however haven’t been in a position to ship the specified outcomes.
The Ice Canines (4-10-4-1) opened the scoring as Ryan Roobroeck managed to carry one over the left shoulder of Brayden Gillespie (27 saves) within the first interval for a 1-0 Niagara lead. Regardless of the purpose, Gillespie and the Storm’s defence had been in a position to restrict Niagara’s scoring alternatives for a lot of the sport.
“I believe we may do a greater job defensively,” stated Hislop. “With doing a greater job defensively will come offence and we noticed that tonight.”
With the Storm up 3-1 within the third, Kevin He introduced the Ice Canines again to inside one purpose however that was as shut as they might get. Storm head coach Chad Wiseman favored the best way his staff had been in a position to win battles all through the sport.
“We take satisfaction in defending first,” stated Wiseman. “I don’t assume we quit plenty of Grade A scoring probabilities. A number of the photographs we gave up had been perimeter.”
Wiseman stated he isn’t nervous concerning the lack of scoring that the staff has been experiencing over the past six video games.
“The offence will come. The alternatives had been there and as lengthy you might be getting the possibilities they’ll finally go in.”
Neither staff managed to attain with the person benefit. Guelph had three energy play alternatives, Niagara had 4.
The subsequent recreation for the Storm is Saturday night time after they head on the highway to Barrie to face the Colts. Recreation time is 7:30 p.m. and you’ll catch all of the motion on 1460 CJOY.
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