The Aurora Tigers lost both games of their back-to-back road trip to open the final month of the OJHL regular season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sixth-place Tigers struggled offensively, scoring only once in a pair of losses to potential North-West divisional playoff opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Friday night in Burlington, the Tigers dropped a 4-1 decision to the third-place Cougars at Central Arena. In Georgetown on Saturday night, the Tigers were shut out 4-0 by the second-place Raiders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tigers\u2019 Head Coach Greg Johnston assessed his team\u2019s efforts: \u201cThey were totally different games. We came out very well and provided a high energy game in Burlington against the highest-scoring team in the OJHL. It was a close game\u2014tied 1-1 going into the third– and they scored their fourth goal into an empty net. I was proud of the effort by the team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The hometown Cougars took a 1-0 lead on Crossley Stewart\u2019s goal at 16:38 of the first period. The Tigers tied the game when their leading scorer, Lucas Stanojevic, collected his 30th<\/sup> goal of the season. The short-handed goal by the Tigers\u2019 captain was assisted by Matthew Godwin. The Tigers and Cougars took at 1-1 tie into the third period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Coach Johnston acknowledged his Captain\u2019s \u201cmilestone goal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLucas has had an excellent season. He brings it every game. He\u2019s an excellent leader in the locker room.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite the Tigers\u2019 excellent road effort in Burlington, the Cougars took the lead in the final frame on a goal by Jamie Langill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Crossley Stewart scored his second of the game to extend Burlington\u2019s lead to 3-0 and Isaac Faccio fired the puck into an empty net to close the scoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On a bright note, the Tigers got stellar goaltending by workhorse Glen Crandall who stopped 45 of the 48 shots that Burlington fired at him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGlen played solid,\u201d added Coach Johnston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Tigers\u2019 offensive woes continued the next night in Georgetown in their 4-0 shutout loss to the Raiders who, like the Burlington Cougars, have clinched a playoff spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Georgetown, the Tigers and the Raiders played a scoreless first period. Coach Johnston expressed concerns about his Tigers not taking the game to Georgetown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe needed to initiate. We were only responding most of the game. Georgetown was winning races to the puck and we weren\u2019t physical enough.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Raiders forward Brandon Kakei scored at 1:59 of the second period in what turned out to be the game-winning goal. Isa Parekh and Rhys Chiddenton added two more markers for the Raiders in the middle frame to expand their lead to 3-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Noah Cochrane made it 4-0 for Georgetown mid-way through the third to provide the margin of victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Coach Johnston says the key to the rematch between Georgetown and Aurora on Tuesday afternoon at the ACC is simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have to play our brand of hockey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Tigers fell to 2-3-1 in their last six games and are 17-21-2-5 with nine games remaining in their regular season which comes to a close at the end of February for Aurora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Jim Stewart<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Aurora Tigers lost both games of their back-to-back road trip to open the final month of the OJHL regular season. The sixth-place Tigers struggled offensively, scoring only once in a pair of losses to potential North-West divisional playoff opponents. On Friday night in Burlington, the Tigers dropped a 4-1 decision to the third-place Cougars […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32578","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=32578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}