The Ottawa
67s have evened up the series by soundly defeating the Niagara Ice Dogs 7-4.
Niagara
coach Marty Williamson knew immediately what looked outwardly as a good start for
the Ice Dogs was nothing but. Within the first few minutes the Ice Dogs outshot
the visiting 67s 9-0. “We were way too pretty, over passing pucks but we weren’t
fundamentally sound.” And he was right because at the 10:00 mark of the first period
the onslaught began.
Nicholas
Foglia opened up the scoring for Ottawa. This was his second goal of the series
as Foglia scored the only Ottawa goal in the opening game of the conference
finals on Friday evening. Then began a flurry of scoring with goals by Cody
Ceci, Dalton Smith, Shane Prince making it 4-0. Alex Friesen finally got a shot
past Ottawa goal tender Petr Mrazek.
The second
period opened with a Brett Ritchie power play goal for the Ice Dogs and for a
brief moment a Dougie Hamilton goal from the point brought the Ice Dogs within
one goal. However the momentum was quickly lost as Mike Cazzola scored a fifth
goal for Ottawa a minute later.
A sixth
Ottawa goal from Sean Monahan finally chased Niagara goalie Mark Visentin from
the net. He has had an outstanding season since returning from the World
Juniors in January but Sunday was definitely not his night. Chris Festarini
took his place in net and did an admirable job keeping the Ottawa blitz of
goals down to just one more from Jake Cardwell.
David Pacan
scored a goal for the Ice Dogs in the dying seconds of the game. However there
was no celebration of the goal as the Dogs knew the game was ending with a 7-4
loss.
Following
the game both teams got on their respective buses and headed north to prepare
for game three of the Eastern Conference finals in Ottawa. When asked if
Visentin will be back in the net for game three tomorrow night, Williamson’s
quick reply was “Absolutely!”
Dog Bytes:
- Six is the most goals Mark Visentin has given up all season.
- The Ice Dogs out shot Ottawa 48-35
- Ottawa went 3-for-5 on the power play with one short-handed goal
- Niagara’s power play was 2-for-6
- Ottawa captain Marc Zanetti has been suspended indefinitely until a decision is made on discipline following a kick to the head of Niagara’s Tom Kuhnhackl during Friday’s series opening game.
- It was another sell out at “the Jack” with 3145 in attendance
- The 50-50 draw was once again over $3000.00
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