{"id":18733,"date":"2017-10-25T15:47:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T19:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=18733"},"modified":"2017-11-01T18:38:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T22:38:01","slug":"hurricanes-down-tigers-in-annual-pink-in-the-rink-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/hurricanes-down-tigers-in-annual-pink-in-the-rink-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes down Tigers in annual Pink in the Rink game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On a night where hockey played second fiddle, the Newmarket Hurricanes quietly took over first place in the OJHL\u2019s North division.<br \/>\nThe streaking Canes hosted the Aurora Tigers on Thursday in the pair\u2019s annual Pink in the Rink game, with all proceeds going to the Southlake Regional Health Centre.<br \/>\nA sea of pink took over the Ray Twinney Complex, with Newmarket donning bright pink jerseys, socks, and stick tape in support of three deceased loved ones who made a deep impact on the organization.<br \/>\nKevin Lord, KJ Ramolla, and Josh Sedore were honoured with a pre-game ceremony before the action kicked off, and though this year\u2019s numbers are still being tabulated, the event has raised over $130,000 for cancer research since its inception in 2009.<br \/>\nThe staff, volunteers, the team, and the community really did a great job,\u201d said Southlake Foundation member Corinna Jones. \u201cWe rely on events like this for crucial funding, and the great work that this team does not go unnoticed.\u201d<br \/>\nThe puck then dropped on a game that would see one team emerge as the division leader, with the Canes sitting just one point back of the Tigers in standings.<br \/>\nA scoreless first period was highlighted by some stellar saves from Aurora goaltender Bradley Van Schubert, including a breakaway stop late in the frame.<br \/>\nHe was broken, however, just over a minute into the second period when Adam Trotman sent a wrister off the crossbar and in.<br \/>\nAurora\u2019s Tyler Davis tied the game on the powerplay shortly after, though Newmarket retook the lead with a shorthanded marker before the end of the period, a 2 \u2013 1 score that would hold until the final buzzer.<br \/>\nHosting the Stouffville Spirit in the weekly Friday night game at the Aurora Community Centre, the Tigers dropped their third game in a row, a 6 \u2013 3 score that saw the Tigers playing catch-up through the whole sixty minutes.<br \/>\nJake Bricknell, Elijah Gonsalves, and Anthony Romano had the Aurora markers.<br \/>\nThey were able to snap their losing streak on Sunday with a 4 \u2013 0 shutout of the lowly Whitby Fury, with Romano, Evan Bidenti, and Jason Stachelback all scoring in the first period to take a commanding lead.<br \/>\nRizvanMansurov buried one in the third period to complete the scoring.<br \/>\nThough the week ended on a positive note, three regulation losses in a row did not fare well in the North division standings. With Newmarket and the Markham Royals both on hot streaks, Aurora has dropped down to third in the division with a record of 9-6-1.<br \/>\nAurora hosts Newmarket on Friday in another crucial matchup. Puck drop is set for 7:30 p.m.<br \/>\nThey then travel to Stouffville on Saturday to take on the spirit.<br \/>\nFor stats, schedules, and more information visit www.auroratigers.pointstreaksites.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a night where hockey played second fiddle, the Newmarket Hurricanes quietly took over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-26-02.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}