09 January 10, 2009 - ObserverXtra

THE OBSERVER | Saturday, January 10, 2009 SPORTS | 21
PHOTO | JONI MILTENBURG
MAKING HIS MOVE Paul Thompson advances on a Stratford defender in the first period of play against
the Cullitons Jan. 4
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lead, and the game ended
7-4.
The following day, the
Kings built up a three-goal
lead only to watch Stratford
whittle it away to
nothing, eventually forcing
a shootout, which the
Cullitons won.
“I thought we were the
better team and we just
didn’t finish them off, and
we probably had an opportunity,”
said coach Geoff
Haddaway. “I thought we
had a lot of good chances
where we either missed
the net or didn’t pull the
trigger.”
The Kings got off to a
fast, aggressive start, peppering
the Stratford net
with shots. Five minutes
in, Kyle McNeil ripped a
slapshot past keeper Jordan
Ruby. Trent Brown
and Josh Ranalli had assists
on the power play
goal. Thompson added
a second goal three minutes
later, smacking in a
rebound from Parent and
MacEachern.
Elmira made it 3-0 early
in the second frame,
when McNeil deflected a
slapshot from Jon Jutzi
(Ranalli) over the netminder
and into the back
of the net.
Stratford climbed back
into the game at 8:43,
when Kyle Wilhelm (Cohen
Adair) carried the
puck across the net and
knocked it past keeper
Brandon Wysman. The
Cullitons built on that momentum
to make it two
just over a minute later;
Craig Dalrymple (Pat Looby,
James Graham) fired a
shot that deflected off another
player and into the
net. The period ended 3-2.
The Kings fought hard to
hang on to their slim lead
in the third period, drawing
disappointed groans
from the home crowd with
a number of narrowlymissed
chances. It was
the Cullotins that found
the mesh, tying things up
with a power play goal
from Wilhelm (Mitch
Good, Adair) at 7:32.
Neither team was able
to break the tie in the remainder
of the period or
five minutes of overtime,
forcing a shootout. The
teams went through five
shooters before the Cullitons’
Eric Millisor got the
puck past Wysman to win
the shootout.
“In terms of controlling
the play, I thought we controlled
most of the play,”
Haddaway said. “But they
played a good, sound road
game and that happens on
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the road sometimes, you
have to find ways to win
and they did.”
Haddaway said he was
mostly satisfied with the
team’s defensive play; the
team’s penalty killing performance
improved from
the previous night, allowing
only one goal on seven
chances.
“I think on average
teams are allowing more
than three goals per game
this year, so if you can go
65 minutes and only allow
three, then I think for the
most part, you’re doing
your job. Are we 100 per
cent satisfied? Obviously
not. Certainly if you only
allow three goals, especially
at home, then you
should give yourself a
chance to win.”
Today (Saturday) is the
league’s trade deadline,
but Haddaway couldn’t
say if the Kings would be
making any changes to the
roster ahead of the cutoff.
“I don’t know if we’re going
out of our way to try
and change anything,”
he said. “If we think we
can make a move that will
benefit the Elmira Sugar
Kings, of course we’ll
make it. We’ll consider
it, but we’re not going to
make a change for the sake
of making change.”
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