Sting Fell to London
MONDAY FEBRUARY 8, 2016
COMMUNITY NEWS
Despite leading
for the majority of the game,
the Sarnia Sting fell 4-3 at the
hands of the London Knights on
Sunday afternoon in London
Sarnia's Charlie
Graham turned aside 24 on 28
shots in the loss, while Tyler
Parsons made a number of key
saves turning aside 24 on 27
shots to earn the win for the
Knights.
The bad blood carried over from
January 24th, as Devon Paliani
and Owen MacDonald dropped the
gloves just 41 seconds into the
first.
Sting Captain, Sam Studnicka
opened the scoring just 2:12
into the opening frame, making
no mistake after taking a pretty
feed from long-time teammate,
Travis Konecny. Rookie, Ryan
McGregor drew the second assist
on Studnicka's career-high 20th
of the season. The Sting took a
1-0 lead into the first
intermission.
Just 2:36 into the second
period, Matthew Thachuk notched
his first of the night; evening
the score for the Knights.
Zacha responded for the Sting on
the power play, blasting him a
one-timer from the faceoff dot.
Jakob Chychrun and Travis
Konecny were credited with the
helpers.
With less that 1:30 to go in the
second, Travis Konecny scored
his 18th of the season to give
the Sting a 2 goal lead. The
goal was unassisted.
Just as the Sting thought they
were going to take a 3-1 lead
into the intermission, Tkachuk
scored his second goal with :29
remaining in the stanza. The
puck took a couple of bounces
and ended up in behind Graham.
Tkachuk completed the hat-trick,
scoring the game-tying goal on a
late third period power play.
With less than 4:00 remaining in
the third, Brandon Crawley
registered the game-winning goal
after taking a pass from Marner.
The Sting and Knights will now
face-off on Saturday night at
the SSEC on DIFD night. The
Sting are encouraging fans to
wear purple in support of mental
health awareness.
Game Notes:
-
Sarnia's
power play was one for two
while the Knights went one
for three with the
man-advantage
-
Sam Studnicka
and Jacob Graves dropped the
gloves at the end of the
second period.
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Sarnia is
currently ranked 2nd in
their division and 5th in
the Western Conference with
a record of 28-15-5-2
