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.

Hurricanes have rough night in Brantford

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GOLDEN EAGLES BOUNCE BACK

You could tell it was going to be one of those nights in Brantford when defenseman Peter Soligo was challenged to a fight during the warm-up. The Guelph coaches did a good job of settling our boys down and getting them ready for the real game. The fight did happen early in the 1st and Soligo handled himself very well but the bottom line was that the Canes were down another defenseman. Zach Dion was already a scratch because of an injury sufered the night before in Waterloo.

Weidner and the Canes vs. Brantford

The Canes used that energy and scored the 1st goal with Jake Weidner notching his 3rd on a powerplay with an assist from Mike Iacocca. Guelph ended the period with a 2-1 lead when Lucas Penzo(4) scored a second power play goal with assists from Brandon Anselmni and Nic McEachern. Thats the good news.

The bad news was the 2-1 1st period lead woke up the Golden Eagles. Brantford came out swarming in the 2nd and scored in the 1st minute of play then added 2 more goals to take the lead.

The one bright spot in the period was a beautiful solo effort by McEachern(6). His goal made the score 4-3 and gave Guelph some energy. However, on the ensuing faceoff the Golden Eagles scored to regain a 2 goal lead. They ended up scoring the last 6 goals to put the game away.

Final Score Branford 10, Guelph 3

Guelph’s next game is Thursday, January 14th when  they host the Cambridge WinterHawks at the Sleeman Center. This game is a fundraiser for Habitat Humanity Cancer Awareness. Come on out, bring the family and support Cancer Awareness.

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

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.

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.