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Milestone night
Still in the hunt
for first or second place and the right to a first
round pass the Excelsior's finally returned to the
Powerade Centre on Thursday night to play the first
of three in a row against the Kitchener Waterloo
Kodiaks. The Kodiaks have been lurking around the
middle of the standings all season and last year
were the only team to get the best of the Excelsiors
in their regular season series, so the Excelsiors
knew to not take them lightly.
Aaron Wilson would
open up the scoring 3 minutes into the game, and
Dan Teat would add his first of the night shortly
thereafter. Kitchener would cash in on the first
power-play of the evening well over half way in
to the opening period, but Dan Dawson would quickly
rectify that and then Dan Teat would net a power-play
marker of his own with under two minutes to go.
Kitchener would split the gap on yet another man-up
situation to end the period 4-2.
Mike Hominuck would
get his first of the night shortly into the second
period, but the Kodiaks were quick to respond with
yet another power-play goal. The Excelsiors then
settled down and Brodie Merrill and Shawn Williams
each scored to increase the home team lead to 4.
KW would try and climb back with less than eight
minutes to go with their first even strength goal
of the night but in the final seconds with an extra
attacker on the floor, Dan Dawson would blast home
his second of the night to re-establish an 8-4 edge.
It wasn't until
over half way through the final frame before the
Excelsiors were back at it again. Captain Teat finished
off his hat trick as Colin Doyle found him cutting
through the middle. Mike Hominuck would then complete
a hat trick of his own scoring the next two goals.
His first of the two was assisted by Aaron Wilson
giving Aaron his 400th career point while his second
came from the help of Dan Teat which gives Brampton's
captain 1200 points (ALL AS AN EXCELSIOR!!!). The
teams traded a pair of goals each in the final 6
minutes to wrap the game up to a 13-6 Excelsior
victory.
Brampton now travels
to Kitchener on Sunday and Tuesday to wrap up this
series as well as their regular season away games.
They return to the Powerade Centre on Thursday to
face the struggling Brooklin Redmen before facing
their nemesis Peterborough for the final two games
of the year on Sunday July 12th and Thursday July
16th in what will most likely be the deciding games
for the seeding of the playoffs.
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