Mar 08, 2022 | tschmidt | 359 views
Season Finale
Warriors play 4 games in 5 days to end second half
On Thursday February 24th the Warriors began their 1st of 4 final games in Kitchener. Stratford came out flat but managed to put 4 past the highly ranked Kitchener goaltenders. Kitchener scored early on a powerplay and ended the 1st period up 1-0. However Ethan Schmidt scored on the power play off the rush from Carson Lubbers to tie it 1-1 midway through the second. 25 seconds later, Kitchener replied right back to go up 2-1. With 3 minutes remaining Caleb Hurley sprung Ryder Duchesne who scored to tie it up again. With 4 minutes left in the 3rd, Schmidt won the face off to lubbers on another Stratford powerplay, Lubbers fed Schmidt at the blue line for a blast that was tipped in by Luke Hishon for the go ahead marker. 2 minutes later, Hishon scored again on the powerplay off a defensive zone Schmidt faceoff. Hishon buried it into the empty cage to make it 4-2. Mac Munroe got the win in net for Stratford.
On Saturday the Warriors played host to the Sarnia Sting and did indeed get stung in a 3-0 loss. Bryson Boyne took the loss in Stratford
Sunday the Warriors player London Knights Green in Stratford in an exciting back and forth 4-4 tie. Caleb Hurley opened the scoring on a breakaway midway through the first going top cheese. London Green would scored 2 midway through the second to take a 2-1 lead. A few minutes later, the Warriors responded on a Schmidt goal from Hishon to tie it 2-2. London would score a minute and a half later to regain the lead 3-2 and to close out the second period.
Colton Campbell scored on the opening shift in the third from Schmidt and Ryan Watling to tie it 3-3. London replied 2 minutes later to make it 4-3 and take the lead again. Saunder Degraauw tied it 4-4 2 shifts later, assisted by Hurley and Campbell.
Monday night the Warriors finished the regular season in London taking on the first have unbeaten London Knights White. Bryson Boyne got the win in net with a 4-3 final. The Warriors came out hungry and jumped an early lead in the first period with 2 powerplay goals coming from Hishon unassisted, and Owen Martin from Schmidt and Hurley. Schmidt added an unassisted goal with 2 minutes remaining in the first to finish up 3-0. London white came back in the second with 2 goals 31 seconds apart, late in the frame to make it 3-2. Hurley scored 5 minutes into the third to make it 4-2 and with the goalie out and 44 seconds left, London scored to make it 4-3 but it wasn't enough as the Warriors took the game 4-3. Bryson Boyne got the win between the pipes