Sarnia Sting Took Convincing Win
Wednesday March 30, 2016
COMMUNITY NEWS
by Sarnia
Sting
The Sarnia Sting
skated away with a convincing
5-2 win over the Sault Ste.
Marie Greyhounds on Tuesday
night at the Essar Centre. The
Greyhounds lead the
best-of-seven Western Conference
Finals 2-1 after 3 games. The
home team has fallen in each
contest thus far.
Matt Mistele led the way for
Sarnia – scoring the Sting’s
first and final goals on the
power play – en route to a big
win for the visitors. Brandon
Lindberg, Patrick White and
Pavel Zacha each chipped in with
their firsts of the series.
It was all Sting in the opening
frame as they outshot the Hounds
by a 13-6 margin, and led 2-0 on
the scoreboard. Mistele’s power
play marker at 13:41 was
assisted by Josh Jacobs and
Pavel Zacha.
Less than 5:00 later, Brandon
Lindberg capitalized on a
short-handed rush to give the
Sting a 2-0 cushion heading into
the intermission. Sam Studnicka
was credited with the lone
assist.
At 16:46 of period two, Patrick
White made it 3-0 off the
odd-man rush. Pavel Zacha made a
great pass to find White alone,
and he made no mistake. Jeff
King was credited with the
second assist on the eventual
game-winning goal.
The Hounds would get one back
with :15 remaining in the second
period as Blake Speers
registered his second of the
series. Brandon Halverson and
Bobby MacIntyre drew the
assists.
Pavel Zacha would spoil any hope
for a comeback as the
Czech-national would score a key
goal for the Sting, just 3:26
into the final stanza. The power
play marker was assisted by
Jakob Chychrun.
Mistele would add his second of
the night with 11:36 to go in
the frame. Pavel Zacha and
Jordan Kyrou were awarded the
helpers on the power play goal.
Just seconds later, Frank Pucci
would get one back for the
Hounds – but it was a little too
late as Charlie Graham shut the
door for the remainder of the
third.
Game 4 of the series is slated
for Thursday night at the Essar
Centre. The series will return
to the SSEC on Saturday April
2nd for Game 5. Tickets will go
on sale tomorrow (Wednesday)
morning at 9AM and will be
available online at
www.sarniasting.com , at the
SSEC Box Office, or by phone at
(519) 541-1717.
Sting Notes:
-
The Sting
were without leading scorer,
Travis Konecny (injury).
Online reports indicate he
has returned to Philadelphia
for evaluation
-
Pavel Zacha
was named the game’s first
star – picking up 1G, 3A in
the contest.
-
Jakob
Chychrun was the second star
after registering a single
assist.
-
Mistele’s 2
goals earned him 3rd star
honours.
-
The Sting PP
was 3/7 while the Hounds
went 1/6 with the man
advantage
