Sour start to open trip for Greyhounds (Sootoday.com)

Story by Brad Coccimiglio (Sootoday.com)  |  Photo by soogreyhounds.com

It was a battle of two of the Ontario Hockey League’s hottest teams but it was one who came limping away.

A four-goal second period was the difference as the Owen Sound Attack beat the Soo Greyhounds 6-1 at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre in Owen Sound on Wednesday night.

As one of the OHL’s top teams on the road, a bad second period led to what some called an embarrassing result in the opener of a three-game road trip for the Greyhounds.

“We just got out-worked and gave them too many odd-man rushes,” said Greyhounds forward Jack Kopacka said of the second period.

“It’s obviously embarrassing, especially with the way we’ve been playing on the road all year,” Kopacka also said of the game.

Greyhounds Coach Drew Bannister called the game a wake-up call for a Greyhounds team that had six wins and an overtime loss in its seven previous games.

“Sometimes games like this are good in the sense that they knock you back to reality,” Bannister said. “They show you the work that we still need to put in here as a group. Tonight, especially in the second period, we had to be a lot better than we were.”

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