The Waxers struck first with just under five minutes left in the opening frame and the first period would end 1-0.  On the power play, Jesse Boucher passed the puck across the ice to Albert Ferrante at the point.  Ferrante's blast was stopped by the Oshawa netminder and the rebound went directly on to Ryan Steane's stick and he buried a backhand in to the open side of the net for the lead.

Markham blew the game wide open in the second period scoring 5 times.  Mark Menonte scored the eventual game winner, his first of two in the period, with assists to Mark Mitchell and Kemp.  After an Oshawa dump in that Kemp steered to Mitchell, Menonte was found with a great pass at the far blue line behind the Oshawa defense and made no mistake on the breakaway, 2-0 Waxers.  One minute later, just over 9 minutes in to the period, Jason Duffy and Ben Cottreau broke free on a 2-on-1.  Duffy fed the pass across to Cottreau who corralled the pass with his skates, kicking the puck up and batting it in to the net out of mid-air with his stick for his second of the year.  Then, four minutes later while short handed, Menonte scored his second, another breakaway and almost a carbon copy of his first.  Boucher had jumped on a loose puck near the Waxer blue line and fed Eric Kleine who banked the puck off the boards to the streaking Menonte.  Then, with just over 2 minutes remaining, Steane, Boucher and Menonte went in alone 3-on-0 with Menonte leading the rush.  In an unselfish move, Menonte deked the goalie to one side then slid the puck back to Boucher who tapped it home for the 5-0 lead.  Pat Porretta finished the scoring after Duffy and Cottreau started the cycle, Porretta stepped out from the corner with the puck and rifled home a low wrister just 33 seconds after Boucher's goal.

The third period saw the Waxers extend the lead to 8-0 just over 8 minutes in.  Mitchell made a great play in the neutral zone to break up an Oshawa break out and immediately moved the puck to his partner, Ferrante.  He streaked up the ice and let go a low, hard  slapper from just over the blue line for his first goal of the season.  Then, while on a power play, Porretta and Cottreau combined to set up Duffy for a one timer in the slot and the final Waxer goal of the evening.

Kemp stopped 28 shots on the evening, the only shot getting past coming with just 1:15 left on the clock, earning his second win for the Waxers.

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