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Rangers show no mercy in Letowski's second game as Sting boss
dave borody February 11th, 2011


KITCHENER – The Kitchener Rangers showed no mercy on the Sarnia Sting Friday night.

The Rangers scored four times in the opening period and coasted to a 7-1 victory over the Sting, before 6,388 fans at the Kitchener Auditorium.

Kitchener dominated the Sting this season winning all four games and outscoring Sarnia 22-5 over those four games.

The loss came on the heels of the Sting defeating London 4-3 in overtime on Thursday night in Trevor Letowski’s debut as interim head coach of the team.

Sarnia has now lost seven of their last eight while they have just two wins in their last 13 games.

The Rangers dominated the game from start to finish as they led 4-0 after one period and 6-0 after 40 minutes. They scored on their first shot at 3:28 and had their second goal 53 seconds later.

“I thought we were ready to play,” said Letowski. “But they scored on their chances early. They are a completeteam and once they got the lead it was tough. I think they scored six goals on 18 shots. Things could have got real ugly, but we held our own in the third period.”

He added, “they took it to us pretty good while we didn’t have much sustained offensive pressure. We had a couple of quality chances, that if we had scored, might have made a difference. We just have to scratch this one off the list and move forward,”

Defenceman Jack Kuzmyk scored the lone Sting goal at 13:01 of the third period on a shot from the point to spoil Mike
Morrison’s shutout bid. It was Kuzmyk’s first goal of the season.

Sting rookie sensation and top scorer Nail Yakupov was again held off the scoresheet for the second straight night
marking the first time he has been held pointless in back-to-back games this season. Kale Kerbashian did not played the third period due to a sinus infection.

“He had nothing left in the tank,” said Letowski. “He probably shouldn’t have played at all tonight and even last night.”

Troy Passingham started in goal for the Sting and allowed six goals on 18 shots. Brandon Hope came on three minutes into the second period and was the lone bright spot in the Sting lineup making several brilliant saves. It took 28 shots before Kitchener scored on Hope. He faced a total of 29 in the game. Morrison made 21 stops.

Jason Akeson led the Rangers with two goals and three assists. Akeson had a goal and five assists in a game earlier in the year against Sarnia. Tobias Rider also had two goals and Tyler Randell, Ryan Murphy and Jerry D’Amigo with singles.

D’Amigo joined the Rangers recently from the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League. He is a draft pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Kitchener was two-for-five on the power play and Sarnia zero-for-three.

Sarnia returns to action Sunday afternoon when they travel to Windsor to take on the Spitfires beginning at 2 p.m. The next home game for the Sting is Friday when they host the Barrie Colts and 7:05 p.m. at the RBC Centre.

STING NOTES

- Sarnia had a full lineup of 20 players with only forward Brett Ritchie (mono) and defenceman Anthony Donati (knee)
missing. Both are expected to be ready to play next Friday. Forward Craig Hot tot was back after a two-game suspension.
Defenseman Josh Chapman was up from the Sarnia Legionnaires junior B team. He was involved in a fight in the final
minute

- Sarnia’s road record dropped to 6-14-3-0 while their overall record is now 19-27-4-2.

- The Rangers, who have one of the best home records in the league at 21-4-2-1, are an incredible 15-0-1-0 when leading after one period and 20-0-0-0 when ahead after two periods.

- Overager Tyler Peters of the Sting has not scored in 13 games and has just two goals in his last 18 games. Brandon Alderson has not scored in nine straight games.



 

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