For their final trip to Windsor and after a 12-hour bus ride to Windsor on Wednesday, January 19th, the first place (20-12-2) Soo Greyhounds took to the ice Thursday, January 20th against the third place (17-10-2-2) Windsor Spitfires in an Ontario Hockey League west division contest. In their last meeting back on January 8th and 9th in Sault Ste Marie, the Spitfires won both games 5 – 2 and 10 – 4 over the Greyhounds.
At 7:46 of the opening period with a pass from the right corner from Marco Mignosa, Caeden Carlisle fires a wrist shot behind Spitfire goaltender Xavier Medina from the right blueline for his fourth of the season to give the Soo a 1 – 0 lead. Tyler Savard drew the other assist on Carlisle’s goal. From the centre of the blueline, Greyhound rookie defenseman rifles a snapshot to be tipped by Tyler Savard to find the back of Windsor’s net 5:21 into the second over Medina’s right shoulder to bring the Soo lead to 2 – 0. Jack Thompson added the second helper on Savard’s sixth of the season. Matthew Maggio sends a pass to Will Cuylle to the left of Soo netminder Tucker Tynan’s net to slide the Spitfires first under the Chicago Illinois native’s left pad to pull Windsor within one at the 8:26 mark of the final period. Wyatt Johnston notched the other assist on Cuylle’s 23rd of the season. With 24.6 seconds remaining the game, Maggio picks up a bouncing puck Soo defender in front of the Tynan’s net to fire the tying goal through traffic to even the game 2 – 2 for the Spitfires. Johnston and Andrew Perrott registered the contributors on Maggio’s 16th of the season. After no scoring in the three on three overtime, Maggio sinks the lone goal in the shootout to give the Spitfires a 3 – 2 win over the Soo. Windsor goaltender Xavier Medina turned away 37 of 39 shots while Greyhound netminder Tucker Tynan stopped 23 of 25 in the Soo’s shootout loss in Windsor.
The Greyhounds will take their 3 – 2 shootout loss into the Sleeman Centre in Guelph on Friday, January 21st to meet the first place midwest division (18-8-2-1) Guelph Storm in a 7:30 p.m nationally televised TSN puck drop.
