{"id":21524,"date":"2018-09-06T14:43:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T18:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=21524"},"modified":"2018-09-06T14:43:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T18:43:35","slug":"junior-a-tigers-close-preseason-with-consecutive-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/junior-a-tigers-close-preseason-with-consecutive-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior A Tigers close preseason with consecutive wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some familiar faces played the heroes in a pair of Aurora wins to close out the OJHL preseason schedule over the weekend.
\nA pair of losses to open up the year was followed by a 3 \u2013 2 win over the Whitby Fury on Friday, a contest that took just over four periods of play before Tigers veteran Joseph Mizzi potted the winner in double overtime.
\nMarkus Patterson and Michale Palandra also netted their first goals in the Tigers\u2019 black and gold, each in the first period.
\nThey closed out the preseason the following night on the road to face the Toronto Jr. Canadiens, where fellow veteran Luca Esposito put up a two-goal performance in another 3 \u2013 2 win.
\nChristian Fillipetti of Nobleton had a strong debut in net in the contest, with the sixteen-year old making 35 saves for the win.
\nThe prospects for a repeat season as Conference champions are already high: the Tigers were one of just two OJHL teams to make the grade on the Canadian Junior Hockey League\u2019s top-twenty list, released late last week.
\nEntering at eighteenth in the nation, Aurora trails only the high-powered Wellington Dukes within Ontario, who was tabbed at number three. The two heavyweights will first get a look at each other on Sept. 25 when the Tigers visit the Dukes.
\nIn the meantime, the Battle of Yonge Street will be renewed on Sept. 14 for Aurora\u2019s home opener, hosting the Newmarket Hurricanes for a Friday night contest one night after they compete at Newmarket\u2019s Ray Twinney Arena.
\nThe puck drops at 7:30 to begin a new 52-game schedule, heavy on intra-division games in a move OJHL Commissioner Marty Savoy said will \u201creinvigorate longtime and historic rivalries.\u201d
\n\u201cWe want to promote competition as much as we can,\u201d said Savoy in a statement.
\nThis year\u2019s competition will certainly have a new look for the Tigers: if they are to once again reign at the top of their conference, it will have to be as NorthWest champions rather than NorthEast, a move approved by the league in July.
\nA longtime battle with the Lindsay Muskies will be cut short after the Muskies moved conferences in the offseason, leaving just one Tigers-Muskies game on the regular season schedule.
\nBurlington, Oakville, Georgetown, and Buffalo join the Conference in the West division, as well as the new-look Brampton Admirals and Brantford 99ers, formerly the Orangeville Flyers and Milton IceHawks respectively.
\nAurora will face each of Newmarket, Markham, Pickering, and Stouffville, the other members of the North division, seven times throughout the schedule.
\nThe season wraps up in late February.
\nFor stats, schedules, and more information, visit www.auroratigers.pointstreaksites.com.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some familiar faces played the heroes in a pair of Aurora wins to close out the OJHL preseason schedule over the weekend.
\nA pair of losses to open up the year was followed by a 3 \u2013 2 win over the Whitby Fury on Friday, a contest that took just over four periods of play before Tigers veteran Joseph Mizzi potted the winner in double overtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-06-11.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-5Ba","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-16 03:13:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524","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=21524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}