Red-Hot Roll Continues for Sarnia Sting
Monday December 1, 2014
By DAVE PAUL
The red-hot roll continued for
the Sarnia Sting, Sunday
afternoon at RBC Centre.
Sarnia won its fifth straight
game, this time defeating one of
the league's top teams, the
Kingston Frontenacs, 4-3.
The Frontenacs were coming off a
victory in London the night
before and were playing their
third game in three days after
starting the weekend with a home
game in Kingston. So they were a
potentially tired group -- but
so were the Sting, who were
playing for the fourth time in
five days, having travelled to
Saginaw on Wednesday before
beginning their own
three-games-in-three-days
weekend.
Sarnia showed more life in the
first period, outshooting the
Frontenacs, 11-9, and getting
the only two goals of the period
-- Brandon Lindberg scoring from
in close and Anthony DeAngelo on
a power play point blast.
Hayden Hodgson's
goal early in the second period
gave the Sting a 3-0 lead and
the home team appeared to be on
its way to a decisive victory.
But then the momentum changed
and the powerful Frontenacs
began to fight back. Kingston
outshot Sarnia 29-14 in the
final two periods, combined (and
38-25 overall), and some Sting
resilience along with strong
goaltending by Taylor Dupuis was
needed to preserve the win.
Ex-Sting Ryan Kujawinski got
Kingston on the board with a
power play goal shortly after
Hodgson's tally and Kingston
made it 3-2 just after the
10-minute mark.
The Sting clung to the one-goal
lead for most of the remainder
of the period, then got a huge
lift with a late, shorthanded
goal -- Troy Lajeunesse tapping
home a great feed from Stephen
Pierog on a two-on-one.
However, less than two minutes
into the third period, Kingston
Samuel Schutt made it a one-goal
game again. The remainder of the
period saw the Frontenacs come
at the Sting in waves, trying in
vain to even the score.
But Dupuis, who coach Trevor
Letowski described as "one of
the league's elite goalies",
following the game, along with
his Sting teammates were able to
hold off the barrage for the 4-3
win.
Letowski also stressed how
important it was for his team to
"finally take that important
step" in beating one of the
league's elite teams.
"Their record doesn't really
show it yet, but they are one of
the OHL's best," Letowski said,
of the Frontenacs.
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The victory improved the Sting's
record on the season to
13-11-1-1. With 28 points,
Sarnia now sits alone in seventh
in the Western Conference, four
points up on eighth-place
Saginaw.
Next action for Sarnia is Friday
when the Sting hosts North Bay.
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