Hurricanes dropped 6-4 by WinterHawks

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CANES FALL TO WINTERHAWKS

The Cambridge Winterhawks continued their dominance over the Guelph Hurricanes with a 6-4 win last night at the Sleeman Centre. However, the final outcome doesn’t reflect how the Hurricanes played. Those in attendance would tell you that the Canes played well enough to win that game.

Jude, Bell, Goss and Pfeffer return to the bench after scoring

The Canes dominated the first period with 3 goals by Brandon Anselmini, Cam Jude and Mike Iacocca. Jude scored the prettiest goal of the night when Blair Goss took the puck into the Cambridge zone and laid a perfect pass on Cam’s stick.

The second period was well played with some great chances on both ends. The game was tied late in the second when an innocent looking clear in pass took a crazy bounce over Drew Pegrum’s stick and found the open net to put the WinterHawks up 4-3.

Early in the 3rd Nic MacEachern restored the lead with a nice goal set up by Connor Ste Marie and Mike McFarlane. The game see sawed back and forth before the Hawks scored with less than 5 minutues in the game to take the lead. The Canes took a rare penalty with less than a mnute left to put the Hawks on the powerplay which led to their final goal. The game was very clean with Cambridge picking up 3 minors all to the same player. Guelph took 4 minors.

The final 2 regular season games will played on the road tonight in Listowel and Saturday in Cambridge.

Play offs will start next week either in Brantford or Waterloo. Our home dates will be announced later this week end.

The GOJHL – MidWestern banquet goes this Monday in Stratford.

Hockey Legand comes to Guelph Thursday

 

 

Henderson scores goal of the Century

Hockey Legend Paul Henderson will be coming to the Guelph Hurricanes / Cambridge Winter Hawks game this Thursday night at the Sleeman Centre. The game is a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity.

 Here is Paul’s bio:

Paul Henderson, a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, became a Canadian sports legend on September 28, 1972. His goal, with 34 seconds remaining in the final game, lifted Canada to victory in the “Series of the Century”, against the Soviet Union.

Incredibly, Paul Henderson scored the winning goal in each of the last three games of this historic first series between the two superpowers of hockey.

That magical moment in Moscow is still considered the greatest in hockey history. In 1997, on the 25th Anniversary of The Goal, Paul was immortalized on a postage stamp issued by Canada Post and a silver coin by The Royal Canadian Mint.

Tickets for the event can be purchased at the Sleeman Centre on Game night or at the Rona Cashway store on Dawson Road or Habitat’s Re-Store on Speedvale Road. Ceremonial face-off is at 7:00 pm.

Brantford Coach’s take on Saturday’s game

Here is Brantford’s point of view to Saturday night’s game along with video highlights of the game: http://www.brantnews.com/sports.cfm?page=sports&section=read&articleId=6476

Brantford’s coach Scott Rex describes the back story to this rough game.

Guelph’s next game is this Thursday Jan. 14th, when they take on the Cambridge Winter Hawks, 7:45 pm at the Sleeman Centre.

Note: This is the fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity.

Pegrum’s 38 saves not enough for Canes

Pegrum stops 38 Waterloo shots

Despite Drew Pegrum’s 38 save performance the Guelph Hurricanes (11-20-4 26 pts.) still lost 5-2 in Waterloo (28-5-0 56 pts.) versus the Siskins Friday night.

Waterloo outshot Guelph (43-23 ) and received a great offensive night  from forward Matt Reid (3 goals + 1 assist) and goalie Will Sibley picked up his 4th win this season against Guelph.

Martin Kudla and Mike Iacocca both scored Powerplay goals for the Canes.

Guelph’s next action is tomorrow night when they travel to Brantford to take on the Golden Eagles, before they return home next Thursday (Jan. 14th) on Habitat for Humanity night vs. the Cambridge Winter Hawks. Game Time 7:45 at the Sleeman Centre

Dutchmen steal one from Hurricanes

In late February when the GOJHL (Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League) regular season comes to a close and the Guelph Hurricanes see who they are facing in the playoffs, they may be thinking of this game tonight at Victoria Road Arena, this 4-3 shootout loss to the Kitchener Dutchmen as… the one that got away.

McDougall down after Dutchmen tie the game

Kitchener’s Ted Anstett opened up the scoring in the first, before Taylor Lukasik (shorthanded) and Blair Goss (powerplay) scored for Guelph and after one period, the Hurricanes led 2-1.

After a scoreless 2^nd period, Tyson Theaker extended the Hurricanes lead to 3-1 at the 15:33 mark of the 3^rd period.

With the Hurricanes leading 3-1 with 2:34 left in the 3^rd period in a tight checking affair with the Kitchener Dutchmen it looked like the gap in points between these two teams was about to widen. With the win Guelph would have moved 6 points ahead (27 pts to 21) of the 8^th place Dutchmen and would have decreased the likelihood of facing the MidWestern Division leading Brantford Golden Eagles in the first round of the playoffs.

But that wasn’t to be.

The Dutchmen called a time out and then pulled their goalie for the extra attacker. Then Tanner DeWitt scored with 2:26 left on the clock and then Ryan Clarkson and tied it up with 56 seconds left in the 3^rd.

Overtime solved nothing, so the teams went to a shootout.

Mark Scheifele’s wrist shot in the top corner over the Hurricane goaltender Chris McDougall’s glove proved to be the winner for the Dutchmen.

With the one point they gained in the shootout loss, Guelph now sit tied in 6th (tied with Elmira, however the Sugar Kings have two games in hand) with 26 pts. , Kitchener with 23 pts. remains in 8^th.

The Hurricanes take to the road for their next two games, Friday Jan. 8^th in Waterloo and Saturday Jan. 9^th in Brantford.

The next Hurricanes home game is the following Thursday Jan. 14^th, when they take on the Cambridge Winter Hawks in a 7:45 pm start at the Sleeman Centre.

3 game weekend only nets Hurricanes one point

Playing well for part of the game and coming up short in the end seems to be the trend following the Guelph Hurricanes these days.

Thursday night they faced a very good Waterloo Siskins ( 19-5-0 38 pts.) team at home and found themselves down 3-0 after the first period. Then they clawed their way back to outscore the Siskins 2-1 in the 2nd and 3rd period, eventually losing the game 4-2.

Saturday night they travelled to Cambridge (14-7-2 30 pts.) to take on the Winter Hawks in a game where they faced 52 shots, including 31 in the 2nd period. Cambridge scored 5 goals in that period and would go on to win the game 6-4.

Then the Canes visited Elmira (11-11-3 25 pts.) Sunday night and they finally avoided the one period let down and came away with a single point in a 3-2 shootout loss.

That point will be critical as teams jockey for playoff position. Currently Guelph sits 8th in the MidWestern Division and would face the top seeded Brantford Golden Eagles in the first round of the playoffs.

*Other GOJHL Notes:

The Stratford Cullitons snapped their 11 game losing streak Sunday afternoon with a 6-5 win over the Listowel Cyclones.

GOJHL’s leading scorer is Josh McQuade (Brantford Golden Eagles) is averaging 3 points per game (81 pts. in 27 games) and is on a pace to score 153 pts. this season.

Next home game for the Canes is Thursday December 3 when they face Josh McQuade and the 1st place Brantford Golden Eagles. Game time at the Sleeman Center is 7:45 p.m.

Shorthanded Hurricanes have no answer for Cody Hall & the Winterhawks Powerplay

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In the space of 7 minutes during the second period WinterHawk fans were treated to the Cody Hall powerplay show. The game was tied 1-1 when Hall went to work and 4-1 when he was finished. Excellent saves by Chris McDougall and a couple of goal posts prevented the veteran Hall from scoring 5 or 6 goals.

Hall’s performance and the absence of Dan Mohle from Guelph’s powerplay overshadowed a good road performance from the Canes. The Canes still smarting from injuries to defensemen Wade Pfeffer and Luca Penzo went with both their 16 year old defensemen Brandon Anselmini and Daniel Cotroneo. Both players played tough and had relatively good games in a tough building. Anselmini contributed his 1st junior goal on a hard shot from the point.

The Canes had 3 call ups for the game including 16 year old midget Evan Jared. To make matters worse was the loss of D-Man Peter Soligo due to a head check penalty.

Also scoring for Guelph was Tyson Theaker. Adding assists were Mike McFarland, Zack Dion and Nic MacEachern. Canes travel to Stratford this Friday.

The next Hurricanes home game is Saturday November 14th, 7:30pm at the Sleeman Centre. When Guelph takes on the Kitchener Dutchmen.

Young Hurricanes battle adversity to sit 7th at the 1/4 mark of the season

With 1/4 of the  Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League season finished, the young Guelph Hurricanes team (who survived an injury to their starting goaltender and a coaching/GM change) currently sits 7th in the MidWest Division (an 19th in the GOJHL) with 9 points.

More stability behind the bench and in net, along with the experience the rookies have received so far and their never quit attitude, would lead me to believe that they can at least dupicate 9 points in the next quarter of the season. (All 13 games are against in-division teams)

The current standings are below:

Standings

GOJHL 2009/2010

Western Conference
Team	GP	W	L	PTS	WPCT
London	11	9	1	19	.864
Strathroy	10	8	2	16	.800
LaSalle	10	7	3	14	.700
Sarnia	13	5	4	14	.538
Chatham	11	6	5	12	.545
St. Thomas	10	5	4	11	.550
St. Marys	10	5	4	11	.550
Leamington	13	1	11	3	.115
Lambton Shores	10	1	9	2	.100
Midwestern Conference
Team	GP	W	L	PTS	WPCT
Stratford	13	11	2	22	.846
Brantford	11	9	2	18	.818
Cambridge	11	8	2	17	.773
Waterloo	11	8	3	16	.727
Listowel	11	6	5	12	.545
Elmira	11	5	4	12	.545
Guelph	13	4	8	9	.346
Kitchener	12	2	9	5	.208
Golden Horseshoe Conference
Team	GP	W	L	PTS	WPCT
St. Catharines	12	9	2	19	.792
Niagara Falls	10	8	2	16	.800
Thorold	10	6	2	14	.700
Wheatfield	11	4	5	10	.455
Port Colborne	12	4	7	9	.375
Welland	11	3	7	7	.318
Stoney Creek	8	2	5	5	.313
Fort Erie	11	2	8	5	.227

Guelph’s next home game is this Saturday Oct. 17th at the Sleeman Centre where the Hurricanes host the Kitchener Dutchmen in the first game of a home-and-home series. Game time is 7:30pm.

Hurricanes win battles, but lose war against Cambridge

Despite winning most of the battles on the ice, the Guelph Hurricanes came away empty losing 4-3 to the Cambridge Winter Hawks tonight in Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League action .

Guelph (now 0-3-0) outplayed Cambridge ( now 2-0-1) in the first period and were rewarded with their first lead of the young season on a short handed goal by Ken Rolph.

1-0 Guelph after one period. (Shots Guelph 11, Cambridge 9)

Cambridge came back with 3 goals one off he stick of  Brett Priesap and two from Mike Sones, and it looked like they would have take a 3-1 lead into the 2nd Intermission when Zach Dion would pull the Canes within one with his first of the year.

3-2 Cambridge after two periods.  (Shots Guelph 23, Cambridge 20)

Cambridge would score what proved to be the winner on a blast off the stick of Cody Hall to take the lead 4-2.

But despite being down by two goals, the Hurricanes never quit. They kept winning the little battles and pulled to within one on an Andrew Van Ooteghem goal with just over 11 minutes remaining.

With time running out Guelph pulled goalie Trevor McGee with 1:07 to play in game. But Cambridge hung on to preserve the victory.

Final Score: Cambridge 4, Guelph 3 (Final Shots Guelph 32, Cambridge 25)

The Guelph Hurricanes next game is against the 0-2-0 Kitchener Dutchmen, Saturday September 19th, 7:30 pm at The Sleeman Centre.

Tickets: only $8 for adults, $6 for students and $2 for kids.

 

Sept 17 Guelph Hurricanes vs. Cambridge Winter Hawks

The Guelph Hurricanes continue their home stand today (Sept. 17) against the Cambridge Winter Hawks.

When Cambridge comes to town, it is always a battle and this game should be no different.

Guelph looks to rebound from a pair of losses to the Stratford Cullitons and Elmira Sugar Kings, last week.

Cambridge led by their two leading scorers # 9 Anthony Colizza and # 22 Cody Hall, have one win and one OT loss in their first two games.

Also, Guelph showed off their new logo and uniforms last week.

Tonights game is at 7:30 pm at the Sleeman Centre. http://www.thesleemancentre.com

Tickets Prices: Adult $8.00, Students $6.00, Children $2.00

Also fans are invited to join the online fan club on facebook.  http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Guelph-ON/Guelph-Hurricanes/112633724527?ref=mf