There wasn’t a lot Christmas spirit between the Storm and the Petes of the Ontario Hockey League Friday evening.
The relatively chippy sport on the Sleeman Centre ended up with Guelph taking it by a 7-5 rating over the guests from Peterborough.
The sport began off nicely for the Petes as they took a 2-0 lead 10 minutes into the primary interval on targets by Jax Dubois and Konnor Smith.
After exchanging targets within the second interval, the Storm fired 4 unanswered markers previous Petes’ netminder Liam Sztuska (27 saves) and grabbed a 5-3 lead after two durations.
“I assume perhaps we thought we received the sport (after the primary interval),” stated Dubois on his workforce’s effort within the second interval. “I didn’t suppose we performed too dangerous. I believe if we labored on our second interval, we might have been good.”
Regardless of the momentum swing the reigning OHL champs wouldn’t go down quietly. Dubois (3 targets, 1 help) accomplished the hat trick scoring his second and third targets for the Petes 42 seconds aside within the third interval to tie it up at 5-5.
However Braeden Bowman (1 aim, 1 help) would knock in his sixteenth of the season on the ability play on the 5:15 mark to place the Storm up by one. That was adopted by Max Namestnikov’s (2 targets) second of the sport to provide Guelph a 7-5 lead.
“The momentum was going our manner heading into the third interval,” Namestnikov stated. “They form of bounced again… to tie it up. Then the momentum went again to our aspect and (we) had it in direction of the tip.”
Namestnikov had a number of possibilities to gather his personal hat trick together with one late within the third with the Petes’ web empty however he couldn’t bury the puck on a wrap-around.
“Personally, I take pleasure in it extra,” stated Namestnikov on the variety of targets scored. “It’s much more enjoyable, extra aggressive. Guys have been form of going at it, chirping one another.”
There have been a pair of fights combined in, each the results of questionable hits by the Petes. Chandler Romeo dropped the gloves with Sam McCue after McCue despatched Leo Serlin into the boards from behind within the first interval.
Then Rylan Singh and Braydon McCallum (1 aim, 1 help) received into it in early the third after Buchinger obtained a headshot from McCallum. McCallum ended up receiving a 5-minute main and an ejection from the sport.
Jake Karabella (1 aim, 2 assists), Michael Buchinger (1 aim, 1 help), Charlie Paquette, and Wil McFadden additionally scored whereas Jett Luchanko completed with 4 assists for Guelph – 12 totally different Storm gamers collected not less than one level within the sport.
“I didn’t suppose we had too many passengers, if any passengers, within the sport,” stated Storm head coach Chad Wiseman who preferred the best way his workforce battled after a sluggish first interval.
“The Grunder-Paquette-McGuire line who checked their high line the second half of the sport did a implausible job enjoying at their finish of the ice.”
Brayden Gillespie stopped 22 photographs for the Storm. Guelph scored 4 occasions on the ability play on six alternatives whereas Peterborough went 2-for-3.
It’s a brief turnaround for the Storm as they host the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds for a matinee on Saturday for his or her teddy bear toss sport. Recreation time is 2 p.m. and it may be heard on 1460 CJOY.
The Petes will play the Generals in Oshawa on Sunday evening earlier than the league goes into their Christmas break.
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