{"id":19906,"date":"2018-02-22T11:19:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=19906"},"modified":"2018-02-22T11:19:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:19:29","slug":"minor-midget-express-cruising-through-omha-playdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/minor-midget-express-cruising-through-omha-playdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor Midget Express cruising through OMHA playdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minor Midget York-Simcoe Express have something to prove in their CHL draft year.<br \/>\nThis year\u2019s batch of those just entering junior eligibility find themselves undefeated five games into the OMHA postseason, knocking out the Richmond Hill Coyotes and taking a commanding two-games-to-none lead on the Peterborough Petes.<br \/>\nMeeting the Petes for game one of their quarterfinal series on Saturday, the Express cruised to a 3 \u2013 0 win on the road, taking a shutout back to St. Andrew\u2019s College for Game Two the following afternoon.<br \/>\nA scoreless period had Express goaltender Alexander Imperio matched up evenly with his Peterborough counterpart after the first, before Cameron Jackson opened the scoring for the home side with a bullet from the blue line early in period two.<br \/>\nJust minutes later, Jack Bar picked up a rebound on another powerplay and buried it into an empty cage, doubling the Express lead.<br \/>\nWith the Petesfinding themselves in penalty trouble throughout the entire middle frame, Evan Vierling capitalized late in the fourth powerplay of the period with a rebound goal of his own, giving York-Simcoe a 3 \u2013 0 lead heading into the final period.<br \/>\nThe final buzzer was met with a 5 \u2013 0 score, bringing the shutout streak to two games.<br \/>\nFinishing the regular season with a record of 24-4-4, the Express capped off the final AAA rankings as fourth in the province, while the Petes rounded out the top five.<br \/>\nThe Express can put the series to bed on Thursday night back in Peterborough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minor Midget York-Simcoe Express have something to prove in their CHL draft year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018-02-22-11.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19906","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=19906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}