Hosting the cross-own rival Thornhill Rattlers for the final time this season, the Waxers completed a home sweep on the heels of a 7-3 victory.  Markham was led by Tony Rossi's first hat trick as a Waxer and the 21 saves of Anthony Guadagnolo to claim their 29th victory of the season.

The first period was a methodical one for the Waxers, who executed fairly well but did not get on the score sheet.  Thornhill scored the only goal of the period, just 3:15 in to the match, to take a 1-0 lead in to the intermission.  The shots were 6-5 for the Rattlers as the Waxers shot more than 10 pucks wide of the net and hit the cross bar twice.

Markham got their cross-hairs readjusted during the intermission and were able to blow the game open with 4 unanswered goals in the second period.  Rossi bagged his first of the evening to tie the game just over 2 minutes in to the period.  Clearing the puck out of the zone to Kevin Cribari who fed it across to Mark Menonte, Rossi followed up the ice and one-timed a low hard slapper off of Menonte's slick drop pass at the tops of the circles and beat the goalie low to the glove hand side.  The Waxers took the lead for good at the midway point of the period on a power play marker.  Right from the face-off in the Thornhill end, Menonte controlled the puck and drifted low and along the goal line.  He spotted Rossi charging through the middle of the box and put a pass right on his stick who banged home his second of the evening.  The onslaught continued just 4 minutes later as the Waxers capitalized on a 4-on-4 situation.  Joe Rothwell broke up a Thornhill rush and threw the puck ahead to Andrew Dias in the neutral zone.  Dias ragged the puck allowing Rothwell and Ryan Olidis to join the rush and make it a 3-on-2.  Dias left the puck for Rothwell in the offensive zone and drove the net.  Rothwell sent a perfect pass back to Dias who redirected it in to the wide open side for the 3-1 lead.  The Waxers then completed the scoring in the period with another power play marker.  Nathaniel Brooks attacked the net with the puck and when his initial shot was stopped, Ryan Steane grabbed the rebound and sent it back to Brooks who stuffed the puck home along the ice and underneath the sprawling Thornhill tender.

The third period started much the same as the Waxers scored to make it 5-1 in the first minute of play.  Dias started the play in the Waxer end as he cleared the zone with a pass to Jeff Weiss in the neutral zone.  Weiss held on to the puck and sucked the defense to him before lofting a sweet saucer pass to a streaking Rainor Guminny on the far side.  Guminny beat the chasing defense to the net and make a quick backhand deke for his fifth of the year.  Thornhill would score to make it 5-2 and the Waxers would regain the 4 goal lead later in the period.  Catching the Rattlers on a line change, Jamie Wright sent a long pass to Weiss near the far blueline.  Weiss skating in calming before ripping a hard slapshot past the Rattler goalie, beating him low to the glove side.  Thornhill would make it 6-3 before Rossi would finish off the hat trick.  With time running down, Rossi collected the puck in the Waxers end and went coast-to-coast, sliding the puck between the goalie's legs for his 19th goal of the season, with just 9 seconds left on the clock.  Dias and Albert Ferrante picked up assists on the goal.

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A

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PPG

SHG

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