Final: Rangers 2, Attack 1
Kitchener, ON: The Rangers (29-11-5-2) hosted the Attack (22-19-3-3) for the final time this season and picked up a 2-1 victory in front of an electric crowd at The Aud.
Mike Petizian scored both the Rangers goals and Jacob Ingham had a 38 save night earning his 22nd win of the season.
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The Rangers got on the scoreboard first at 10:58 of the first period when a pass from behind the net by Declan McDonnell found Mike Petizian (15) in the slot and the centreman one-timed it past Mack Guzda to make it 1-0.
Francesco Pinelli also picked up an assist on the goal.
Seconds later, at 11:08, Holden Wale took a shot on net that resulted in a big rebound right to Petizian (16) who buried his second of the night and it was 2-0.
The goal earned McDonnell his second helper of the night.
At 15:59, from deep inside the Rangers end, Aidan Dudas shuffled the puck to Matthew Philip (19) who went high, glove-size on Jacob Ingham from just in front of the faceoff dot to cut the Rangers lead in half, 2-1.
The first period would end with the Attack leading in shots 13-8.
Each team had 5-on-3 advantages in the second period with four total penalties to each team but the score remained 2-1.
After two periods, Owen Sound continued to lead in shots 24-19.
The third period saw nothing but a few highlight-reel saves by Jacob Ingham who stopped 38 of 39 shots in the win.
The next Rangers home game is on Friday, February 7 at 7:30 pm versus the Mississauga Steelheads. The next road game for the Rangers is on Saturday, February 1 at 7:00 pm versus the Flint Firebirds.
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