{"id":16059,"date":"2016-12-14T12:22:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=16059"},"modified":"2016-12-14T12:22:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:22:51","slug":"aurora-panthers-searching-for-pwhl-playoff-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-panthers-searching-for-pwhl-playoff-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Panthers searching for PWHL playoff spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jake Courtepatte
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The Aurora Panthers are on the outside looking in at the midway point of the Provincial Women\u2019s Hockey League season.
\nA pair of losses over the weekend has the Panthers sitting one point out of the sixteenth and final playoff position, having come out on the wrong side of lopsided scores against the Brampton Canadettes and Leaside Wildcats.
\nSaturday\u2019s game at Century Gardens in Brampton saw the Canadettes take a quick 2 \u2013 0 lead, both off rebounds with little chance for goaltender Carmen Lasis. An unlucky bounce off the backboards led to the only goal of the second period for Brampton, who added two more in the third for a final score of 5 \u2013 1.
\nEmerson Elliott, the Panthers\u2019 leading scorer, notched her eighth of the year for Aurora\u2019s only goal late in the third.
\nSunday\u2019s home matchup against the Wildcats at the Stronach Aurora Recreation Complex was much of the same, with the streaking Wildcats taking a 1 \u2013 0 lead less than one minute into the game.
\nFour straight goals had Leaside taking a sizable lead by the second intermission, before Julia Mitchell, in her first game as a call-up for the Panthers, scored her first PWHL goal.
\nLeaside responded with three more for an eventual 7 \u2013 1 win.
\nKristen Caporusso stopped 25 shots in the loss.
\nFalling to 2-4-4 at home this season, the Panthers slipped to a record of 4-11-4 to sit in seventeenth place in Ontario\u2019s elite amateur women\u2019s hockey league.
\nSitting one point back of Burlington and Barrie, who occupy the final two playoff spots, the Panthers will be looking to return to the PWHL postseason for the first time in two years.
\nFriday marks the beginning of a five-game road trip for the Panthers, visiting the Cambridge Rivulettes (6-16-1) followed by the Bluewater Hawks (10-9-2) on Saturday and the Southwest Wildcats (3-16-3) on Sunday.
\nFor stats and schedules, visit www.pwhl.pointstreaksites.com.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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