Coming off a 6 – 3 loss in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario on October 9th to the visiting Sudbury Wolves, the (1-1) Soo Greyhounds hit the road for a three game stint in southern Ontario with their first stop in Barrie on Thursday, October 14th. The Greyhounds hit the ice against the (0-1-1) Colts in OHL action.

Only ten seconds into Thursday’s game, Oskar Olausson finds the back of Greyhound netminder Samuel Ivanov net with a trickling puck through the Soo rookie’s five hole. Nathan Allensen drew the lone helper on Olausson’s goal. Ethan Cardwell fires a wrist shot from the blueline to give the Colts a 2 – 0 lead. Allensen and Brandt Clarke notched the assists on Barrie’s second goal with 35 seconds remaining in the opening period. 59 seconds into the middle stanza, Luc Brzustowski fires a wrsit shot from the top of the right faceoff circle for his first OHL goal to pull the Soo within one. Bryce McConnell-Baker and Cole MacKay contributed on Brzustowski’s goal. With a pass from Tanner Dickinson from the right post of Colt goaltender Matthew Sbrocca net, Tye Kartye sinks his first of the season at 11:25 of the second with MacKay adding the other assist on Kartye’s tying goal.

With an unassisted goal after picking up a losse puck off of a faceoff from the right faceoff circle, Kartye scores his second of the game 3:27 into the final period to give the Greyhounds a 3 – 2 lead. With the Soo on a powerplay, 14 seconds after Kartye’s second goal, MacKay catches a pass from Rory Kerins to fire a wrist shot into the back of the Colts net to bring the lead to 4 – 2 at the 3:41 mark of the period. Brandt Clarke fires a wrsit shot from inside the left blueline to deflect the Colts third off of Jacob Frasca to close the gap to one at 8:57. Anthony Tabak registered the other helper on Frasca’s powerplay goal. Kerins and MacKay had the assists on Kartye’s third of the game at 16:59 to give the Kingston, Ontario native his first hat trick of the 2021 – 2022 season. With 17 seconds remaining Thursday’s contest in Barrie and Sbrocca on the bench for a Colt extra attacker, rookie McConnell-Baker sinks his first OHL goal unassisted into a Barrie empty net to give the Greyhounds their first regular season road game win. Colt goaltender Matthew Sbrocca stopped 22 of 27 shots in the Colts loss while Samuel Ivanov turned away 33 of 36 shots in the Soo’s 6 – 3 win.

The Greyhounds now head to Guelph for a Friday, October 15th contest against the (1-2) Storm in a 7:30 p.m puck drop.