Wolves Squash the Spirit
The Sudbury Wolves continued their strong offensive ways on Friday night as they hosted the Saginaw Spirit for their one and only visit to the Nickely City this season. Despite the Spirit being Western Conference leaders, it was the Wolves who won the game by a final score of 8 – 2.
The game marked the return of former Wolves John McFarland and Ben Chiarot since being traded to Saginaw in December, and it was also the first time MICHAEL SGARBOSSA, ALEX RACINO and FRANK SCHUMACHER faced their former teammates.
The Wolves jumped out to an early 2 – 0 lead midway throught the opening frame with a goal by JUSTIN SEFTON for his third on the season, and in as many games with the assist from MATHEW CAMPAGNA and SAMUEL SCHUTT, and a powerplay stunner from MARCUS FOLIGNO, with assists from JOSH MCFADDEN and ALAIN VALIQUETTE.
The Wolves took the 2 – 0 lead into the second period and promptly added 3 more to make it 5 – 0 by the 13:33 minute mark. Scoring for the Wolves were ANDREY KUCHIN (FRANK CORRADO), JOSH MCFADDEN (CHARLIE DODERO, MICHAEL SGARBOSSA) and a powerplay goal by KRISTOFF KONTOS (KUCHIN, CAMPAGNA). The Spirit responded before the end of the frame – scoring two goals to make it 5 – 2 at the intermission.
The Pack did not allow a full momentum swing into the third period as FRANK SCHUMACHER scored at the 1:49 mark of the third period to make it 6 – 2. The Wolves then added goals from CAMPAGNA (KONTOS, GREG JAMBROSICH) and SGARBOSSA (MCFADDEN, MIKE LOMAS) to win the contest by a final score of 8 – 2.
ALAIN VALIQUETTE was solid in goal making 33 saves on the night for the win while the Spirit tandem of Tadeas Galansky and Mavric Parks combined to make 24 saves for the loss.
The Wolves will look to keep this offensive power going as they are set to finish the weekend on the road with a stop in Peterborough on Saturday night to take on the Petes – game time is 7:00pm, and heading to Oshawa to take on the Generals on Sunday at 2:00pm.
NOTES: All 8 Wolves goals were each scored by a different player (Sefton, Foligno, Kuchin, McFadden, Kontos, Schumacher, Campagna, Sgarbossa)…..Marcus Foligno left the game late in the first period with a lower body injury, he will be reevaluated on Saturday……The Dickies Hardest Working player was JOSH MCFADDEN, while the game`s three stars were MATHEW CAMPAGNA (1), ALAIN VALIQUETTE (2) and CHARLIE DODERO (3).
