Wednesday Highlights: Joey Willis' historic five-goal night drives Spirit comeback

Wednesday Highlights: Joey Willis’ historic five-goal night drives Spirit comeback

Saginaw Spirit 7 at Flint Firebirds 5

Nashville Predators prospect Joey Willis had a historic night on offence, becoming the first player in Saginaw Spirit history to record a five-goal game
The Spirit completed the comeback with a 7-5 win over the Flint Firebirds in the second game of the Coors Light I-75 Divide Cup Series
Top NHL Draft prospect Michael Misa continued his goal-scoring dominance, scoring his league-leading 23rd goal of the season and adding three assists for a four point night
Jimmy Lombardi produced two incredible highlight-reel assists on both of Matthew Wang’s goals
Firebirds defenceman Blake Smith stayed hot with his third goal in his last four games

Kingston Frontenacs 3 at Ottawa 67’s 2

The east-division leading Kingston Frontenacs won their third-straight game in front of a school-day crowd of 15,000 at Ottawa’s Canadian Tire Centre
Kingston’s ability to capitalize on opportunities in the third period was crucial to their victory. Gage Heyes’ early go-ahead goal and Ethan Miedema’s breakaway goal were key in giving Kingston a lead they would not relinquish
While the Ottawa 67’s had some late-game chances, including a power-play opportunity and a disallowed goal in the final moments, they couldn’t find the equalizer
Nolan Lalonde stopped 19 shots en route to a 3-2 victory

Barrie Colts 3 at Brantford Bulldogs 2 (OT)

Barrie Colts captain Beau Jelsma scored the overtime-winning goal
Barrie Colts rookies Noah Barton and Teague Vader made their respective debuts in tonight’s contest
NHL Draft prospect Jake O’Brien continued his hot offensive play scoring the opening goal for his 10th of the season
It was a goaltending duel tonight as Brantford’s David Egorov made 25 saves in the loss and Ben Hrebik made 29 saves in the overtime win
Rookie goaltender Ben Hrebik now has his wins in five straight starts as he improves to 5-0-0-0

Erie Otters 3 at Soo Greyhounds 4 (OT)

NHL Draft prospect Brady Martin recorded his first career OHL hat trick including the game-tying and overtime game-winning goal for the Soo Greyhounds
Top-ranked NHL Draft prospect Matthew Schaefer collected his fourth goal of the year, scoring on a beautiful breakaway move to briefly give his team the lead
Utah Hockey Club prospect Noel Nordh also scored his fourth goal in this game
Soo Greyhounds goaltender Charlie Schenkel made 25 saves in the victory