Sarnia Legionnaires
2009 - 2010

 


Legionnaires found their groove!
The Legionnaires have finally found their groove with back to back wins over the weekend.

Sarnia Legionnaires vs Leamington Flyers
Saturday September 19, 2009
 


  First game was at home on Saturday when hosted the Leamington Flyers. After the first period of play no score.  Andrew Sokol opened opened the scoring midway into the second assisted by Thomas Ziolkowski.  Leamington answered back just over 2 minutes later to tie. Kyle Fiorini scored for the Flyers. The period ended with both sides with 1 apiece.

In the third Leamington took the lead on a powerplay goal by Ryan Crevatin at 9:44.  Josh Teschke came back to tie at 11:36 assisted by Jesse Drydak and Tanner Tomlinson.  With just over 3 minutes on the clock Leamington took a tripping penalty giving Sarnia the powerplay opportunity.  On the powerplay Joel Steeves went 1 on 1 in front of the net took and found the right top corner and scored the game winner.  Jesse Drydak and Josh Cornelissen assisted on the winning goal.

Kyle Washer earned the win in net for the Legionnaires making a total of 36 saves.  Marc Tremblay of Leamington took the loss with a total of 41 saves.

Sarnia Legionnaires at Chatham Maroons
Sunday September 20, 2009

Sarnia travelled to Chatham on Sunday night pumped after the win on Sunday and came home with a 4 - 3 win.  However scoring was put to the test as 3 of Sarnia goals were scored shorthanded.

Gabe Gervais scored the lone goal for Chatham in the first period to give them the 1 - 0 lead.  In the second period at 1:06 off the clock high sticking was called on Chase Clark to give Chatham the powerplay.  Owen Rogers took control of the puck and went in and scored the first shorthanded goal unassisted.  Action continued and just over midway into the period Sarnia found themselves shorthanded again and this time it was Joel Steeves who went in and scored the second shorthanded goal.  On the same penalty Chatham did recover and scored their first powerplay goal.   Brad Pascall scored for Chatham. With 17:05 left on the clock Sarnia regained the lead on a goal by Tanner Tomlinson from Jesse Drydak and Chase Clark giving Sarnia a 3 - 2 lead heading into the third.

Chatham tied things up in the third when Kyle Makaric scored the second powerplay goal at 4:39. Late into the peirod Sarnia again was fighting off a penalty but the penalty killing line was successful once again and scored the game winner.  Jesse Drydak scored the game winner goal assisted by Owen Rogers and Thomas Ziolkowski.

Kyle Washer was in net earning his second win of the season.

  • former Sting Mitch Dunning was in the Chatham line up.  Dunning was traded to the Windsor Spitfiresr earlier for Windsor’s 15th round pick in 2010 and a conditional 15th round pick in 2012 for Dunning and the Sting’s 15th round pick in 2011.

  • 3 stars in Sarnia/Leamington game were #1 Joel Steeve (SAR), #2 Tanner Tomlinson (SAR) and #3 Marc Tremblay (LEA)

  • 3 stars in Sarnia/Chatham game were #1 Owen Rogers (SAR), #2 Brett Hope (CHA) and #3 Jesse Drydak (SAR)