{"id":24845,"date":"2019-10-03T19:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=24845"},"modified":"2019-10-10T18:01:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T22:01:31","slug":"third-period-collapse-keeps-tigers-losing-streak-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/third-period-collapse-keeps-tigers-losing-streak-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Third period collapse keeps Tigers\u2019 losing streak alive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

All is not well in the Jungle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For just the second time in franchise\nhistory, the Junior A Aurora Tigers have opened their season on an eight-game\nlosing streak, a historic low for the club of over half a century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday\u2019s road match with the\nnewly-minted Collingwood Colts was nothing short of a microcosm for the Tigers\u2019\nseason thus far, where a hefty third period lead was squandered to some\nfamiliar faces behind the bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Colts were fresh out of some early\nmorning news that saw head coach Greg Johnston relieved of his duties after\nthree straight losses for the first year franchise, only to be replaced by\nThomas Milne, a former Tigers head coach, as well as Darcy Roy, a former Tigers\nassistant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was Aurora who took advantage of that\nlack of player\/coach familiarity in the first period, with Steven Li, Caleb\nMinns, and Bryce Young all finding the back of the net before the buzzer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Langlois made it a four-goal\ncushion in the early goings of the second, before Collingwood found its legs in\nbeating Aurora tender Andrew Barwinski twice by the midway point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Langlois added another before the end of\nthe second to take a 5 \u2013 2 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet it was the Colts who stampeded into\nthe third frame, spreading out three goals to send the game to overtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To add more fire to the flame, it was\nAurora native Adrian Nabuurs who tallied the overtime winning goal for the\nColts just 25 seconds into the extra period, extending Aurora\u2019s winless streak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defensive struggles have proven to be\nthe culprit for the Tigers lack of success early on: just one day earlier\nAurora allowed a whopping 47 shots on Barwinski\u2019s net in a 4 \u2013 1 loss to the\nTrenton Golden Hawks, where Trevor Grasby\u2019s goal in the third period was the\nonly mark for the Tigers on the scoresheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tigers first and only other time to\nopen the season with eight straight losses was in the 1983-84 OJHL season, when\nthe club went 4-34-4 to occupy the basement in league standings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a tough start for a franchise\nlooking to expand its fan base at the Aurora Community Centre, in a league\nwhere in most markets only on-ice success breeds fan loyalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owner Jim Thomson and his staff have had\nearly hopes of drawing the small yet loyal crowds from the former Newmarket\nHurricanes from up Yonge Street, now the Collingwood team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while the Colts have ridden the wave\nof freshness to success in their first OJHL season, hosting around 600 fans for\nSunday\u2019s match, the most recent Tigers game brought about just over 140\nspectators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aurora will have one more opportunity to\nright the ship on the road to prove their worth before heading home to the ACC\nfor a three-game home stand. They visit with the Pickering Panthers on Friday\nevening, who sits just a pair of points up on the Tigers with a record of\n2-6-0-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They then host the St. Michael\u2019s Majors\n(3-4-0-3) on Saturday evening, with puck drop set for 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it stands, the Tigers remain the only\nteam in the OJHL yet to find themselves in the win column yet this season, with\nthe Buffalo Jr. Sabres earning their first last weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For stats, schedules, and more\ninformation, visit www.auroratigers.pointstreaksites.com.<\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For just the second time in franchise history, the Junior A Aurora Tigers have opened their season on an eight-game losing streak…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24849,"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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019-10-03-04.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-6sJ","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-20 15:23:46","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\/24845","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=24845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}