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There’s no query the Windsor Spitfires have some points with the defensive aspect of the sport.
Nevertheless, there was additionally a psychological half to the sport that little question performed a component in Thursday’s humbling 12-3 loss to the Owen Sound Assault earlier than 4,811 on the WFCU Centre.
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The crew hit the ice simply hours after the membership traded overage ahead Alex Christopoulos and top-scoring defenceman Rodwin Dionicio to the Saginaw Spirit for overage defenceman Roberto Mancini and ahead Valentin Zhugin.
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“I feel for certain,” Mancini mentioned on if the strikes influence a crew. “As guys within the room, I feel new guys within the room and outdated faces leaving, some guys could possibly be unhappy for buddies leaving, however this room’s fairly good. It’s tough to only present up and play.”
Mancini was within the beginning lineup, however watched the Assault hit the scoreboard simply 37 seconds into the sport as Lighthouse Cove’s Declan Waddick notched his first aim of the season.
“It’s as much as us as a employees to get them to play the sport laborious each single sport regardless of whose enjoying and whose quantity’s referred to as,” Spitfires’ head coach Jerrod Smith mentioned. “Now we have to be mature sufficient {and professional} sufficient to fret concerning the 20 guys that put the jersey on each evening.”
It shortly spiralled uncontrolled because the Spitfires allowed eight Owen Sound objectives within the opening 20 minutes to take a five-goal lead after the primary interval.
“I don’t need to put an excessive amount of on these two guys that left (Thursday),” Spitfires centre Noah Morneau mentioned. “On the finish of the day, it’s a hockey sport and you need to come able to play and we didn’t do this. It was 8-3 after one (interval) and it’s robust to comeback from that. Whenever you’re enjoying you need to carry it and we didn’t carry it.”Windsor didn’t produce one other aim within the sport whereas the Assault grew to become the third crew to hit double digits this season towards the Spitfires, who’ve misplaced six video games in a row.
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“It’s simply effort,” Morneau mentioned. “Lack of depth, lack of effort and I feel that’s the principle drive of it.
“It’s not on the defence, it’s not on the goalies and it’s not on the forwards. It’s everyone as a collective unit. When there’s very minimal effort going into the defensive aspect of the puck, it’s going to be laborious to win video games and that’s the way you quit 12 objectives.”
Waddick, who got here into the sport with simply two assists in 18 video games, had two objectives and two assists. Jackson Stewart scored three objectives and completed with 5 factors whereas Deni Goure had two objectives and 6 factors.
Madden Steen, Ben Cormier, Martin Matejicek, Jake Crawford and Servac Petrovsky added single objectives.
Liam Greentree, Morneau and defenceman Adrian Manzo, together with his first OHL aim, replied for the Spitfires.
“It was method too simple to get to our blue paint,” Smith mentioned reference to the aim space. “The goalie makes the primary save and it’s our accountability to wash up what’s left.
“It’s unacceptable how we carried out on that aspect of the puck. It is a laborious sport to play and till we study to undergo individuals and sacrifice to make the suitable play or to interrupt up a play, it’s simply too simple to play towards (us).”
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The Spitfires are again in motion Friday in Kitchener towards the Rangers at 7 p.m. The 2 groups meet once more in Windsor on Saturday on the WFCU Centre at 7:05 p.m.
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Recreation Abstract
Thursday End result
Assault 12 Spitfires 3
Owen Sound 8 3 1 – 12
Windsor 3 0 0 – 3
First interval: 1. Owen Sound, Waddick 1 (Goure, Sedley) :37, 2. Owen Sound, Stewart 1 (Nansi, Sedley) 5:39, 3. Windsor, Greentree 12 (Maillet, Cristoforo) 5:50, 4. Owen Sound, Petrovsky 6 (Burroughs, Guindon) 6:13 (pp), 5. Windsor, Morneau 2 (Nesbitt, Davis) 8:02, 6. Owen Sound, Nansi 1 (Cormier) 8:32, 7. Owen Sound, Crawford 2 (Stewart, Nansi) 14:11, 8. Owen Sound, Steen 2 (Jordan) 14:44, 9. Owen Sound, Goure 11 (Waddick, Sedley) 15:58, 10. Windsor, Manzo 1 (unassisted) 16:12, 11. Owen Sound, 19:30. Penalties: Mancini W (hooking) 6:03, Petrovski OS (tripping) 10:16.
Second interval: 12. Owen Sound, Goure 12 (Guindon, Sedley) 9:01 (pp), 13. Owen Sound, Waddick 2 (Goure) 11:47, 14. Owen Sound, Cormier 5 (Stewart) 17:54,
Penalties: Jordan OS (roughing), Eichler W (head verify), Greentree W (roughing) 4:10, Petrovsky OS (roughing), Eichler W (roughing) 7:26, Mancini W (hooking) 8:04,
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Third interval: 15. Owen Sound, Matejicek 1 (Goure, Waddick) 9:13. Penalties: Brennan OS (slashing) 3:02, Petrovski OS (cross checking) 10:26, Tersigni OS (excessive sticking) 15:21.
Recreation stats – SOG – Owen Sound 19 9 8 – 36 Windsor 11 11 14 – 36 Aim (shots-saves) – Owen Sound: Votary (W,3-3-0-0) (36-33). Windsor: Michelone (L,1-5-1-0) (6-2), Costanzo (11:28 of first interval) (22-15), Michelone (0:00 of third interval (8-7). Energy play (goals-chances) – Owen Sound 2-3. Windsor 0-4. Referees: Jason Faist (5) and Alex Ross (29). Linesmen: Jordan Hurtubise (57) and Kurtis Pare (70). Att.: 4,811 on the WFCU Centre.
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