By Dave Paul
The Sarnia Sting have not
won too many laughers over
the past few seasons.
But they got to enjoy one
Saturday night at RBC
Centre, crushing their
division rival, Windsor
Spitfires, 9-2.
The victory capped a winning
weekend for Sarnia, which
had beaten Saginaw, 3-1, at
home, on Friday night. It
was also Sarnia's third
consecutive win, overall,
after the Sting opened the
season with four straight
losses.
As was the case on Friday
night vs. Saginaw, the Sting
dominated all facets of the
game right from the outset.
Also like Friday, Sarnia led
2-0 after the first period.
Pavel Zacha and Davis Brown
scored the Sting goals.
The Sting blew the game open
in the second period,
scoring six times, to take
an 8-0 lead, and chasing
goalie Brendan Johnston --
who was making his first OHL
start -- from the contest.
Nikita Korostelev scored
twice while Brown, Kevin
Spinozzi, Jordan Kyrou and
Alexandre Renaud were the
other Sting marksmen.
The Spitfires came close to
getting on the scoreboard
during a wild sequence,
midway through the second
period.
First, defenceman Anthony
DeAngelo -- returning to the
lineup after a two-game
suspension -- saved a
certain goal by sweeping a
puck that had trickled past
Sarnia goalie Justin Fazio,
off the goal line. Windsor
continued to pressure and
Fazio eventually lost his
stick. After the puck had
left the Sting zone, Fazio
ventured out of his crease
to retrieve the stick in the
corner. He had to scramble
back into the goal to make a
kick save on a shot from
centre ice, by a Windsor
player attempting to hit the
vacated net.
The Spitfires finally did
beat Fazio early in the
third. Scoring a pair of
goals, before Korostelev
capped the night by blowing
a slap shot past Windsor
goalie Alex Fotinos, to
complete his hat trick.
Sarnia outshot Windsor in
all three periods, and 42-30
overall.
DeAngelo collected three
assists while Korostelev and
Zacha each finished the game
plus-five.
The Sting will hit the road
on an eastern Ontario swing
next weekend, playing in
Peterborough, Oshawa and
Belleville.
Post
Game interview with Trevor
Lewtowski
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Part 2
Part 3
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