STILL ON A ROLL
The Sudbury Wolves travelled to Peterborough on Saturday to take on the Petes. Coming off a big win on home ice Friday night, defeating the Saginaw Spirit 8 – 2, the Wolves were looking to continue adding points to the win column.
The one thing that did continue for the Wolves Saturday night was jumping out to the early lead. MICHAEL SGARBOSSA scored a shorthanded goal midway through the first period to give the Pack the 1 – 0 lead. ERIC O’DELL (ANDREY KUCHIN) netted his 9th of the season a few minutes later, giving the Wolves the 2 – 0 lead which would hold up until the first intermission. The Wolves had full command of the opening period outshooting the Petes 21 – 5.
The contest was a little tighter in the second period, however, GREG JAMBROSICH (KRISTOFF KONTOS, SAMUEL SCHUTT) added to the Wolves lead when he scored his 8th goal on the season at the 7:04 minute mark. The Wolves lead 3 – 0 in the second intermission.
In the third period, it was all Petes. Wolves netminder ALAIN VALIQUETTE made a couple of very big saves in the first half of the final frame to hold up the shutout, however, the Petes kept coming and made the second half very interesting. SGARBOSSA (MICHAEL LOMAS, JOSH LEIVO) scored his second goal of the night to give the Wolves a 4 – 0 lead, but the Petes came firing back with 3 unsanswered goals to make it a one goal game at 4 – 3 with the third goal coming in the final 20 seconds of the period. Despite some close scrums, the final buzzer sounded and the Wolves hold on to win by a final score of 4 – 3. The Petes outshot the Wolves 20 – 7 in the third.
VALIQUETTE was outstanding in goal making 35 saves for the win, and Bryce O’Hagan made 36 saves for the loss.
SGARBOSSA and VALIQETTE were the game’s 1st and 2nd Star respectively, while O’Hagan was the game’s third star. Forward Marcus Foligno was not in the lineup after suffering a lower body injury in Friday’s game. Foligno will not dress this weekend, and will be reevaluated early next week.
The Wolves will finish up the weekend in Oshawa on Sunday afternoon at 2:00pm when they take on the Generals.
