Mar 23, 2014 | slafay | 926 views
Warriors Win at Home
Stratford Royal Lepage Hiller Realty Minor Peewee Warriors bounced back from a heartbreaking overtime loss on Saturday night with a convincing 5-2 win Sunday evening at Allman arena. With the win, they have taken a seven points to five lead in this eight point series.
Starting strong out of the gate, Stratford pushed the pace of the play resulting in an early powerplay that they capitalized on when Bryce Lee collected a puck at the point and cooly fed his partner, Josh Dowling who walked in and blasted the first goal of the game from the point. Three minutes later on a second powerplay, Callum McMann moved the puck up the right wing to Mitch LaFay, who slipped a pass to a streaking Jared Lesouder through the middle who undressed his man and roofed the second goal of the game short side.
The Huskies replied with the only goal of the second period with both teams trading chances early in the third period. Starting goalie Ryan Bell stood tall making the key saves before LaFay collected an Eybergen rebound and fired it past the Huskie goalie low blocker extending the lead to 3-1. Then, two minutes later, LaFay won a puck battle on the wall and chipped it deep to Eybergen down low who fed Noah Rusen-Steele behind the net who faked to go around the net, but walked out short side and tucked the fourth goal home for the Warriors.
In the dying seconds defending against six Huskie attackers, Lesouder batted a bouncing puck out of the slot in his zone to Dowling who cooly took aim and fired his second goal down the ice into the empty net.
Overall, Dowling and Lee were towers of strength on defence in their zone while McMann skated a mile of ice throughout the game. Aly McLeod and Adam Montieth backchecked hard while Adam Windsor and Mason Petrie tirelessly worked to move the puck out of the zone on the wall all game long.
Saturday evening, the Warriors played a strong game with many chances to score but only Adam Windsor was able to beat a strong Hamilton goalie when he ripped a high wrist shot top shelf after taking a nice feed from Aly McLeod from behind the net with 2:10 remaining in the second period. But Hamilton answered back early in the third with the rest of the game going scoreless. The overtime ended with 21 seconds left in overtime on a bad bounce beating a strong starting goalie Carson Knott. Tyler Pogson and Alex Cassone defended with tenacity all game long.
Game seven goes Tuesday night in Hamilton.