Within the Ontario Hockey League, the Greyhounds dogged the Storm in nearly each space of the sport Friday evening.
Sault Ste. Marie improved to 2-0 within the new yr after defeating Guelph 5-2 on the Sleeman Centre.
It was an enormous evening for Elmira native Brady Martin who scored and added an help for the victorious Greyhounds (25-10-2-1).
“It’s at all times nice coming to my hometown,” mentioned Martin. “Bunch of household right here. It’s nice and I can’t wait to maintain it going this season.”
The primary interval noticed each groups alternate objectives; one by Brendan Sirizzotti put the Greyhounds up 1-0 solely to have Jett Luchanko get the equalizer for the Storm 1:54 later.
The Soo would take a 2-1 lead on a objective by Justin Cloutier 45 seconds into the second interval, on an influence play, to go up 2-1. However 1:52 later, Braeden Bowman recorded his team-leading twentieth of the season to tie the sport once more at 2-2.
The Greyhounds would draw back as Travis Hayes (1 objective, 1 help) scored their second objective of the sport with the person benefit on the 6:10 mark, adopted by Martin’s objective at 14:13.
Alex Kostov added a third-period objective for Sault Ste. Marie who avenged their Dec. 16 shootout loss to the Storm in Guelph.
“We would have liked these two factors,” Martin mentioned. “We misplaced in that shootout so it was nice to get the 2 as a substitute of 1.”
As for the Storm (21-13-2-1), they have been affected by errors, particularly in their very own finish, all through the sport and by no means actually appeared to get it going.
“I feel we may have had a bit extra depth the final couple of intervals,” mentioned Bowman. “We simply want to verify we’re just a little extra constant and I feel we’ll be proper there with them.”
Storm head coach Chad Wiseman wouldn’t level to at least one specific space the place the staff was uncovered, however he felt his staff couldn’t capitalize on their scoring alternatives and allowed too many to the opposition.
“The sport is stuffed with errors, it’s type of the way you reply after making these errors,” Wiseman mentioned. “I believed we compounded these errors, two and three errors as a substitute of slicing our losses at one and reside to combat one other day.”
Landon Miller stopped 28 photographs for the Greyhounds whereas Brayden Gillespie had 29 saves for the Storm.
Sault Ste. Marie went 2-for-4 on the facility play, Guelph additionally had man-advantage alternatives 4 instances however couldn’t rating.
The subsequent recreation for the Storm is Saturday evening after they journey to Owen Sound to tackle the Assault. They return house Sunday for a matinee towards the Sarnia Sting.
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