Lyall named Boston Pizza OHL Player of the Week

The Ontario Hockey League today announced that Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds’ captain Matt Lyall is the Boston Pizza OHL player of the Week for the opening week of the 2008-09 season after scoring three goals and three assists for six points in two games.

Lyall scored two goals, including a short-handed effort, and picked up an assist in a 4-3 loss to the Guelph Storm on Friday and then scored the winning goal in overtime to go along with two assists in a 6-5 win over the Owen Sound Attack on Saturday. He was plus-3 on the week.

Lyall, a 20-year-old from Richmond Hill, ON, returned from the Atlanta Thrashers training camp last week. He is in his fifth OHL season after starting his career with the Storm during the 2004-05 season. He scored 21 goals and 57 points in 67 games with the Greyhounds last season.

Taylor Hall of the Windsor Spitfires scored a goal and five assists in six games this week while Daniel Lombardi had three goals and two assists in two games with the Sarnia Sting.

2008-09 Boston Pizza OHL players of the Week

Sept. 22 – Matt Lyall, Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds