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Excelsiors come
back too late
After climbing
back into second place, the Excelsiors would be
challenged once again in their final regular season
match against the St. Regis Indians. With the series
tied at one game a piece, Saturday nights contest
could prove to be very important in determining
the playoff rankings at the end of the season with
no clear dominant team having pulled away at this
point.
Brampton opened
up the scoring early as Dan Dawson found rookie
Jordon Coffey cutting through the middle. Unfortunately
that was all Brampton would be able to produce in
the opening frame. The defense held on strong for
a while, but at the mid-point of the period, St.
Regis would finally break through to tie the game
up and went on a four goal run in the last 6 minutes
to give them a 5 - 1 edge at the break.
St. Regis continued
to apply the pressure and scored the first 3 goals
of the second period to increase their lead to 7.
Aaron Wilson would finally break the Indians momentum
with just over 5 minutes to go. Dan Dawson put another
one past the St. Regis keeper 3 minutes later. Josh
Sanderson would get an assist on this goal giving
him 1200 career points in the MSL and over 1100
of those came for Brampton. Dan Teat would add a
powerplay marker in the final minute of the period
to bring Brampton back to within 4.
It was over 8 minutes
into the final period before Dan Teat was able to
bring the home team closer but St. Regis was able
to respond less than a minute later to re-establish
their 4 goal cushion. Brampton continued to apply
pressure though. With 4 and a half minutes to go
Blaine Manning scored his first of the season and
Josh Sanderson would add another on the very next
shift to give the fans renewed hope. Despite the
increased effort Brampton was not able to add any
more. In the final minute St. Regis fired the ball
down the floor where it took a funny bounce off
the side boards and rolled into the net to end the
game 10-7.
Brampton now faces
a tough stretch on the road traveling to Brooklin
on Wednesday night and then meeting Peterborough
for the first time in Peterborough on Thursday night.
They end the week with the final game against Barrie
in Barrie on Sunday.
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