Legionnaires Bounce Back
friday october 31, 2014
"It was ugly but
they battled hard and they got a
win." Head Coach Dan Rose said
after the Legionnaires defeated
St. Thomas 3 - 2 Thursday night
at home in Greater Ontario Jr. B
Hockey league action.
You could feel the excitement
after Sarnia scored two quick
goals at the start of the game
with the first at 1:48 and then
at 2:21 to take the 2 - 0 lead.
But that excitement was dulled
at 4:10 when the lead was
quickly cut after St. Thomas
scored two goals twelve seconds
apart to even the score.
Cody Trowell slid one in from
the side of the net to score the
first goal with Davis Boyer and
Nathan Mater earning the assist.
Mooretown Flags Jr. C player
Ryan Lyle slap in the second
goal with PJ Vandervaart and
Bobby King picking up the
assist.
Carter McCormick
and Zach Grezlewski scored for
St. Thomas.
The two teams
battled back and forth for the
next two periods. Sarnia
was denied several goals with
help from the goal post and help
from St. Thomas goalie Nikolas
Dampier who made many
outstanding saves, including one
that even the Sarnia fans cheer
and applauded on.
As the game was
coming to a close the
Legionnaires finally solved
Dampier and scored with 1:02
remaining in the game.
Cody Trowell
scored his second and the
eventual game winner with Davis
Boyer and Brandon Layman earning
the assists.
St. Thomas pulled
Dampier for the extra man in the
final minute and the game turned
ugly after a fight broke out.
After the dust settle and two
players ejected the Legionnaires
were able to hold off the attack
to take the win.
Sarnia took
thirty-one penalty minutes on
eleven infractions, St. Thomas
was handed forty-three minutes
on thirteen infractions. But
both sides were scoreless on
power play opportunities.
Sarnia had five chances, St.
Thomas had three.
"We got a win that's important, we competed
really hard for two periods, I
thought we only had a couple of
bad shifts." Rose said "Our
power play was really good
tonight but their goalie stood
on his head and our PK I thought
did a really good job."
Legionnaires
outshot St. Thomas 35 - 23.
Hunter Johnson made 21 saves in
the win and Nikolas Dampier made
32 saves.
"That should have
been a 7 - 2 game, their goalie
I thought was the first star of
the game." Rose said "Cody
Trowell and Davis Boyer had a
lot of scoring chances tonight,
they could have had two or three
each."
Dampier did
receive second star of the
night. Trowell received first
star, Davis Boyer earned third.
The Legionnaires have played six
games in eight nights and now
will have a full week off before
they play again.
"We're proud of them tonight
because they bounced back.
Last weekend was tough on them
and they got together for a
meeting last night and I think
they came out and played hard."
"We're also proud
of where were at. We're 14 - 3
in first place, we've got some
guys top in the league in
scoring."
Davis Boyer and
Cody Trowell are one and two in
the league in scoring.
Boyer has 12 goals, 21 assists
for 33 points, Trowel has 27
points with 16 goals and 11
assists. Riley Babkirk is
tied in 10th spot with 8
goals and 14 assists for 22
points.
Rose also pointed out that the
team is one of the top leaders
in the league in power plays and
penalty killing.
Next game is at
home against Chatham on Thursday
November 6 then on Friday the
Legionnaires travel to St.
Thomas.
"It's a great group of kids and
we know we are going to move
forward. Sometimes they'll
take a step or two back but this
group will always get themselves
up off the mat keep moving
forward."
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