Making their first trip to the Buzzers' Den this season, the Waxers came away with their first victory over St Mike's, riding an efficient performance to a solid 5-2 victory.  Goaltender Scott Gray was terrific between the pipes stopping 38 shots for the victory, stuffing the Buzzers on a number of good scoring chances during a 5-on-3 power play in the first period.

The Waxers controlled the pace of the play from the onset and left after 20 minutes of play leading 3-0.  Just over 5 minutes in to the period, the Waxers struck as a result of some good forechecking by Pat Porretta.  Taking the body on the dump in, Porretta caused a loose puck in the corner that Rainor Guminny jumped on and took directly in front and beat the Buzzers goaltender to the far side of the net for his 4th goal of the year.  Then, with just over three minutes left in the period, while killing a penalty, Porretta bagged his first of two on the evening.  Ryan Olidis picked up an errant pass in the Waxers zone and sent Porretta streaking up the middle from the Waxers blueline.  Being chased by two Buzzers, Porretta won the foot race and in a Kyle Wellwood-like effort, roofed the puck as he was hauled down from behind for the 2-0 lead.  Then, just after the penalty expired, the Waxers made it 3-0 thanks to some solid work by the line of Ryan Steane, Kevin Cribari and Liam Bowen.  Working the cycle to perfection, the trio created two glorious scoring chances that were stopped before finally cashing in when Bowen cycled it to Steane by the net and he fed Cribari in the slot for a one timer past the Buzzers goalie.

St Mike's made it interesting early in the second as they struck for two goals in the opening 5:03.  After that however, the Waxers took the pace of play back and dictated the remainder of the game.  The Waxers would go in to the third period up by two goals when Nathaniel Brooks scored with 6:43 left in the middle frame.  Mike Diamond dumped the puck in and Andrew Dias went after, throwing a crushing body check on the Buzzers' defenseman.  Daniel Torres picked off the puck and threw it back behind the net where Brooks brought it out in to the crease and shot the puck past the screened goalie for the two goal bulge.

The third period was dominated on the shot count by St Mike's but the Waxers controlled the puck and allowed St Mike's only a couple of quality shots in the 14 they attempted.  Markham scored the only goal of the period on one of the prettiest passing plays of the year.  On a power play in the opening minutes of the period, Jamie Wright had the puck at the blueline and found Mark Menonte coming through the middle of the box at the hash marks.  Menonte was skating towards the right wing boards and took the place and threw a blind, behind the back pass to Porretta at the side of the net on the left wing side of the ice for the easy slam dunk goal and his team leading 36th goal and the final tally of the night.

G A M E   S T A T I S T I C S

No.

 G

A

PTS

PIM

PPG

SHG

GWG

TOTALS