The Markham Waxers ventured in to Thornhill Saturday night to take on the
defending OHA Champiuons Rattlers for the first time this season. The Waxers
left some 3 hours later empty handed, on the wrong end of a 5-4 score.
The first period started promising enough as the Waxers jumped out to a 2-0
lead after less than 11 minutes. Michael Fish opened the scoring with his first
Junior A goal at the 3:28 mark after being left alone in front and receiving a
perfect pass from Mark Mitchell.
Jesse Boucher upped the lead to 2-0 while on
the power play, jamming home a rebound after Mark Menonte fed
Derek Doucette
for a blast from the point. Late in the first, the Rattlers got on the board
halving the lead. The Waxers then ran in to penalty trouble and the Rattlers
capitalized scoring on a 5-on-3 to tie the score with 20 seconds left on the
clock. From the faceoff, Menonte and Boucher combined for some great
forechecking, as Menonte stripped the puck off the Thornhill defense, and fed
Boucher for a one-timer, and a 3-2 lead with 9 seconds left in the period.
The second period saw the Waxers regain their two goal lead, again on the
power play. Boucher led a rush up the ice after Patrick Diotte head manned the
puck, and after waiting for an eternity on a 2-on-1, slid the puck across the
goal mouth to Ryan Steane for an easy tap-in goal. That was the last Waxer goal
and they could not respond to the 3 unanswered Rattler goals in the final 10
minutes of the middle frame.
The Waxers and Rattlers will square off on Friday night back in Markham.
G A M
E S U M M A R Y |
PERIOD
1
1. Markham, Fish 1 (Mitchell) 3:28, 5x5
2. Markham, Boucher 9 (Doucette, Menonte) 10:46 PP 5x4
3. Thornhill, Clark (Angelidis, Minchella) 17:59 5x5
4. Thornhill, Angelidis 19:40 PP 3x5
5. Markham, Boucher 10 (Menonte, Mitchell) 19:52 SH 4x5
PENALTIES:
Kodba TR (slashing)
0:19, Mitchell MW (interference) 3:57, Ferrante MW (roughing)
Costoff TR (holding) 6:25, Doucette MW (rough after the whistle)
6:07, Johnson TR (rough after the whistle) 9:09, Kleine MW
(slashing) 12:24, Doucette MW (rough after the whistle) Johnson TR
(slashing) 13:10, Angelidis TR (roughing) Bahen TR (misconduct)
14:08, Diotte MW (tripping) 18:03, Doucette MW (slashing, head
checking, game misconduct) 19:36
PERIOD
2
6. Markham, Steane 5 (Boucher, Diotte) 2:40 PP 5x4
7. Thornhill, Clark (Costoff) 9:45 5x5
8. Thornhill, Hyman (Angelidis) 12:22 PP 5x4
9. Thornhill, Minchella (Bahen, Iliakis) 17:11 5x5 GWG
PENALTIES: Iliakas
TR (interference) 1:31, Kleine MW (roughing) 4:58, Johnson TR
(head checking, game misconduct) 9:57, Boucher MW (slashing)
11:31, Gonsalves TR (hooking) 13:41, Buck TR (interference) 19:31 PERIOD
3
no scoring
PENALTIES:
no penalties
GOALTENDERS:
Markham: Nick Kemp, Thornhill: Matt George |
SHOTS ON
GOAL |
P1 |
P2 |
P3 |
OT |
FINAL |
THORNHILL
RATTLERS |
11 |
7 |
8 |
- |
26 |
MARKHAM
WAXERS |
9 |
9 |
12 |
- |
30 |
|