Barber Poles host Bulldogs for final time in 2024-25

For the last time this regular season, the Ottawa 67’s (19-29-3-5) will welcome the Brantford Bulldogs (35-17-5-0) to The Arena at TD Place on Sunday afternoon. Puck drop is at 2 p.m. You can still grab your tickets here.

Everything you need to know about your afternoon getaway to TD Place can be found here. If you can’t make it out, you’ll be able to see all of the action on Rogers TV or CHLTV, and hear Kenny Walls’ call on TSN 1200.

The 67’s have won three of their past five games, including a 6-2 win over the Niagara IceDogs on Friday night. They jumped out to an early 3-0 lead, thanks to goals from Caden Kelly, Filip Ekberg and Josh Brady, also getting markers from Nic Whitehead, Luca Pinelli and Jack Dever. Jaeden Nelson stopped 25 shots in the game.

Scoring the game-winning goal, Josh Brady extended his lead atop the category for the Barber Poles, now up to four on the year. Pinelli also grew his point streak to 10 games.

Brantford is 1-1-0-0 on their weekend trip, beating the Peterborough Petes 4-3 on Thursday night, before falling 4-2 to the Kingston Frontenacs on Friday. Noah Nelson and Patrick Thomas scored in the first and second frames respectively to give the Bulldogs a 2-1 lead, but Kingston potted three straight to seal a win.

Former Pete Nick Lardis leads the OHL in goals with 60 this season, reaching the milestone with a three-goal performance in Peterborough on Thursday night, needing just 54 games to reach the plateau.

The Bulldogs have claimed wins in each of the two previous meetings this season, with the most recent being a 4-3 overtime win on January 5th.

By the numbers

Keys to the game

• Lardis

Nick Lardis… don’t let that guy get loose.

• Dogged

Be hard in the corners, play physically and make their defencemen know they’re going to get hit if they want to make plays.

• Discipline

Stay out of the box, because this Bulldogs team is capable of hurting you on the man advantage.