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It’s not the outcome you would possibly count on when the league’s top-rated offence meets the league’s worst defence.
Averaging 5 targets a recreation on offence coming into Thursday’s recreation on the WFCU Centre, the Kitchener Rangers had already put up 11 targets on the Windsor Spitfires in an earlier assembly this season. In contrast, the Spitfires had allowed the opposition 5 targets or extra in eight of the membership’s first 12 video games.
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The Spitfires, who had been permitting 5.67 targets per recreation, held the Rangers below 30 pictures for the sport and by no means trailed in a 4-3 earlier than a crowd of 4,272.
“It’s an enormous win for our staff towards a very good staff and we’ll take that every one day lengthy,” Spitfires’ head coach Jerrod Smith. stated. “We’ve crushed three actually good hockey groups (this season). If we decide to taking part in like that, it simply goes to indicate we are able to beat anybody on this league.”
Thursday’s recreation despatched a message to not the league, however to the Windsor dressing room as to what this staff is able to doing.
“Kitchener’s probably the greatest groups within the league and we’ve crushed a few high 10 groups this 12 months,” Spitfires’ ahead A.J. Spellacy stated. “So, if we play like that, we’ll beat much more groups than we lose to.”
Spellacy acquired the Spitfires on the board lower than two minutes into the sport when he went broad on his defender and put a shot off the crossbar and previous Rangers’ goalie Tristan Malboeuf.
Rodwin Dionicio then despatched Alex Christopoulos in alone with a cross and the Spitfires had been rapidly up 2-0 lower than eight minutes into the sport.
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“It felt wonderful to set the tone for everybody getting a objective early,” Spellacy stated.
However Kitchener’s quick-strike offence had the Rangers even earlier than the top of the primary interval on targets by Adrian Misaljevic and Carson Rehkopf.
“Everybody on the bench was saying, ‘Simply keep optimistic and simply go have shift and get the subsequent objective and we’ll be high-quality,’” Spellacy stated.
Windsor had simply two pictures within the first 14 minutes of the second interval, however each beat Malboeuf, who misplaced for the primary time in 5 selections this season.
Jacob Maillet buried a cross-ice feed from Aidan Fortress on a two-on-one and Christopoulos tucked residence his second from the sting of the crease on a cross from Colton Smith on a Windsor energy play to place the Spitfires up 4-2 after 40 minutes.
“We talked about having that killer intuition holding a two-goal lead after the unlucky occasions of final Saturday towards Niagara,” stated Smith, whose staff misplaced a pair of two goal-goals leads within the third interval and misplaced in extra time. “In opposition to an actual good offensive staff, I assumed our guys actually purchased into the defensive facet of the puck and acquired the job achieved.”
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Filip Mesar notched Kitchener’s second power-play targets, however that was the final objective the Spitfires would permit with goalie Joey Costanzo standing tall with a 26-save efficiency.
“A giant motive we gained that recreation was Joe,” stated Smith, whose staff has 5 of a doable six factors in its final three video games. “He made some vital saves when he wanted to and he was actually good.”
The Spitfires now head to Sault Ste. Marie for a pair of video games towards the Greyhounds on Saturday at 7:07 p.m. and Sunday at 2:07 p.m.
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Sport Abstract
Thursday End result
Spitfires 4 Rangers 3
Kitchener 2 0 1 – 3
Windsor 2 2 0 – 4
First interval: 1. Windsor, Spellacy 2 (Morneau) 1:40, 2. Windsor, Christopoulos 3 (Dionicio, Eichler) 7:42, 3. Kitchener, Misaljevic 11 (Swick, Brzustewicz) 10:53, 4. Kitchener, 17:34 (pp), 4. Kitchener, Rehkopf 15 (Swick, Sop) 17:34 (pp). Penalty: Fortress W (slashing) 16:07.
Second interval: 5. Windsor, Maillet 5 (Fortress, Abraham) 3:56, 6. Windsor, Christopoulos 4 (Smith, Dionicio) 13:26 (pp). Penalties: Stewart W (tripping) 7:27, Sop Okay (slashing) 13:17, Martin Okay (misconduct) 13:26, Sop Okay (slashing) 16:55.
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Third interval: 7. Kitchener, Mesar 2 (Sop, Rehkopf) 6:50 (pp). Penalties: Spellacy W (hooking) 5:55, Martin Okay (unsportsmanlike conduct), Christopoulos W (roughing) 9:42, Rehkopf Okay (hooking) 11:43, Smith W (holding) 11:53, Motew Okay (slashing) 13:43, Puglese Okay (excessive sticking) 15:06, Sop Okay (misconduct), Swick Okay (misconduct), Cristoforo W (misconduct), Eichler W (misconduct) 20:00.
Sport stats – SOG – Kitchener 11 8 10 – 29 Windsor 6 6 9 – 21 Purpose (shots-saves) – Kitchener: Malboeuf (L,4-0-0-0) (21-17). Windsor: Costanzo (W,3-6-0-0) (29-26). Energy play (goals-chances) – Kitchener 2-3. Windsor 1-5. Referees: Hillary Brennan (6) and Ryan Jenken (36). Linesmen: Ryan Caldwell (82) and Geoff Rutherford (62). Att.: 4,272 at WFCU Centre.
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