BARRIE WINS THEIR FIFTH STRAIGHT
The Barrie Colts were in London Friday night playing against a team that had just four regulation losses for the second straight night.
Barrie needed a shoot-out to defeat the Sting on Thursday and tonight they handed the Knights just their fifth regulation loss of the season, hammering the number one ranked team in all of Canada by a score of 6-2.
Five different Colts scored led by Mark Scheifele who had a pair of goals. Aaron Ekblad had a goal and an assist as did Daniel Erlich who was making his Colts debut.
Steven Beyers and Josh MacDonald also scored for Barrie. Reid McNeill, Tanner Pearson and Ivan Telegin each had two assists.
London took a first period lead as they scored on their fourth shot of the game after Mathias Niederberger was laid out in his crease. The goalie couldn`t recover in time and Seth Griffith was wide open at the side of the net for his 16th of the season.
Barrie out-shot the Knights 10-5 in the opening period.
The Colts rallied in the second period and out-scored the Knights 3-1 in the middle frame. Back to back goals gave Barrie a 2-1 advantage before London scored to make it 3-2 after 40 minutes.
Ivan Telegin took the puck back of the goal and left it for Colin Behenna who centered to Mark Scheifele who sniped his eighth of the year.
Moments later it was Gregg Sutch leaving the puck for a wide open Steven Beyers who hammered it home from the high slot, Reid McNeill picked up the second assist.
After Jared Knight tied the game at two it was the Colts fourth ranked power play that restored their lead. Tanner Pearson extended his point streak to eleven games as he found Telegin who saucered a pass that was knocked out of the air and in to the back of the cage by Aaron Ekblad.
The shots after two periods were 24-18 in favour of Barrie.
Daniel Erlich was awarded a penalty shot midway through the third after a great set up from Eric Locke and Erlich, playing in his first game as a Colt, made no mistake beating Michael Houser.
Scheifele would add his second of the night to give Barrie some breathing room and then it was home town boy Josh MacDonald scoring his third of the year from former Knights McNeill and Erlich.
Mathias Niederberger made 32 saves and picks up his fifth win in a row, as do the Colts.
The Knights started the season with just two regulation losses in their first 18 games and have since dropped three of their last six.
Michael Houser of London came in to this game sitting first in the league in minutes, saves and wins, and was third in save percentage and fifth in goals against average.
Ivan Telegin extended his point streak to six games with seven goals and three assists in that span.
Tanner Pearson has seven goals and 17 assists in his eleven game scoring streak.
Jonathan Laser took an awkward center ice hit early in the first period and would not return.
