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Sting Come Up Short in London
january 24, 2015
By DAVE BORODY
LONDON – The Sarnia
Sting come up short
again against the
London Knights.
The Knights won
their fifth straight
game against the
Sting this season
with a 6-2 victory,
Friday night in
front of a sell out
crowd of 9,046 fans
at the Budweiser
Gardens.
The loss dropped
Sarnia’s overall
record to 22-17-3-2
in the Ontario
Hockey League.
The Sting will get
more one crack
against London when
the two clubs meet
for the sixth and
final time during
the regular schedule
in late February in
Sarnia.
After the teams
battled to a 1-1
draw in the opening
20 minutes, London
exploded for five
goals in the second
stanza to take an
insurmountable 6-2
advantage after two
periods.
The Knights own one
of the best home
records in the
league at 19-5-0-3.
Sting head coach
Trevor Letowski
expected the game
would not be easy.
“We knew it would be
a tough night with
the injury problems
we are experiencing
right now. I thought
our first period was
okay even though we
didn’t have the
right energy level.
Our team play was
all right. But
things got away from
us in the second
period and that’s
when they put the
game away.”
Hayden Hodgson
scored his 14th goal
and added an assist
to lead the Sting
scoring. Alex Renaud
scored his seventh
of the year while
Brandon Lindberg and
Kevin Spinozzi
collected assists.
Scoring for London
were Chris Martenet,
Owen MacDonald, Max
Domi, Chandler
Yakimowicz, Aaron
Berisha and Mitchell
Marner.
The Sting were again
missing seven
regulars, all due to
injuries. They
included goalie
Justin Fazio,
defenceman Connor
Schlichting and
forwards Noah
Bushnell, Troy
Lajeunesse, Pavel
Zacha, Patrick White
and Nikita
Korostelev.
Franco Sproviero and
Brenden Trottier
were up from the
Lambton Shores
junior B team while
Steven Taylor backed
up. The Sting played
with one player
under the limit of
20.
London finished with
a 30-23 edge in
shots on goal with
Michael Giugovaz the
winning goalie while
Taylor Dupuis took
the loss.
Sarnia was
one-for-six on the
power play and
London
one-for-three. The
Knights also scored
a shorthanded goal.
Next action for the
Sting comes Saturday
night when they host
the Windsor
Spitfires in their
only home game at
the RBC Centre. Puck
drop is 7:05 p.m.
The two teams meet
again Sunday night
in Windsor.
Letowski knows the
importance of the
back-to-back games
with Windsor.
“They are two big
games and we need a
big response. We’ve
been pretty
resilient in that
area. But there are
some forwards who
need to be better.
Right now there’s
not a lot of
accountability with
the all the forwards
out of the lineup.
It’s hard to take
away ice time.”
Tickets for
Saturday’s game and
all remaining home
games for the Sting
are on sale daily at
the RBC Box Office,
by calling
519-541-1717 or
going online at
Sarniasting.com
Sarnia dropped to
9-11-2-0 on the
road.
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