{"id":33871,"date":"2023-11-23T17:44:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T22:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=33871"},"modified":"2023-11-23T17:44:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T22:44:29","slug":"aurora-tigers-halt-losing-streak-with-gritty-double-overtime-2-2-tie-with-lindsay-muskies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-tigers-halt-losing-streak-with-gritty-double-overtime-2-2-tie-with-lindsay-muskies\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Tigers halt losing streak with gritty double-overtime 2-2 Tie with Lindsay Muskies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Aurora Tigers have experienced tough times of late, but they played their best game in weeks on Saturday night at the ACC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tigers earned a hard-fought point in the OJHL East Conference standings by tying the Lindsay Muskies 2-2 to snap a six-game losing streak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A pair of overtime periods did not break the deadlock, but the Tigers dominated both five-minute overtime sessions and narrowly-missed a two-point victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tigers\u2019 defenseman Luke Hampel, who had a pair of points versus the Muskies, noted important improvements by his struggling team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe executed tonight from start to finish.  We limited our lapses and created great chances in overtime, including a 2-on-0 that should have won the game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hampel\u2014who scored the tying goal during the second period on a booming shot just inside the blue line\u2014took solace in the Tigers ending their losing streak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a big point and one is better than none. We have to start taking two points per game and get back in the playoff race.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hampel credited power play partner Peter Lopes for setting up the game-tying goal in the second period against Lindsay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe finally converted on a good 5-on-3 power play. I got a perfect pass from Peter and was able to tee it up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tigers\u2019 Head Coach Tom Milne said he was pleased with Hampel\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLuke was very good tonight. When he\u2019s moving his feet, he\u2019s really good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coach Milne discussed the value of earning a point in the standings and ending the team\u2019s slide:  \u201cMentally, it\u2019s good for us. They\u2019re getting some structure and I thought they gave it their all tonight. They did a great job on the 4 on 4 and the 3 on 3 in overtime. Lindsay and Evenhuis were dominant 4 on 4 and created all kinds of opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coach Milne also complimented Ryan Evenhuis\u2019s performance at the Canada East All-Star tournament in Trenton earlier in the week. The Tigers\u2019 leading scorer tallied the winning goal for Team Hawerchuk in the tourney\u2019s semi-final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a good accomplishment for Ryan. He performed really well against the upper echelon players of Junior A Hockey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evenhuis scored Team Hawerchuk\u2019s second goal in a 3-1 victory over CCHL Robinson on Tuesday night. The OJHL all-star squad captured the tournament\u2019s gold medal with a 5-0 win in the championship game to go undefeated in Trenton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evenhuis leads the Tigers in scoring with 16 goals and 16 assists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The speedy forward picked up his seventeenth assist of the season on Saturday night versus Lindsay when he flew down the left wing and feathered a perfect tape-to-tape pass to Keegan Decaluwe who rifled a shot past Muskies\u2019 netminder Ethan Fraser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decaluwe\u2019s goal, his eighth of the season, narrowed the Muskies\u2019 lead to 2-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decaluwe\u2019s marker was significant because the Tigers were playing catch up on Saturday night. The Muskies scored two power play goals sixty-eight seconds apart before the game was seven minutes old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benjamin Polomsky converted Lindsay\u2019s man-advantage at 5.28 and Devin Shoreman scored another power play goal at 6.34 to give the visitors an early 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tigers had a golden opportunity to get back in the game while on a 5-on-3 power play, but an unlucky bounce at the blue line was swept up by Muskie penalty killer Brock Forrest who was pulled down on a clear-cut breakaway on Tigers\u2019 netminder Yianni Karkoulas and awarded a penalty shot at 9.08.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Karkoulas came up clutch for the home team\u2014deflecting Forrest\u2019s snapshot left of the cage to keep Aurora\u2019s deficit at two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karkoulas\u2019s big penalty shot save seemed to inspire the Tigers and was the turning point of the contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

48 seconds later and still enjoying a power play, Evenhuis and Hampel earned assists on Decaluwe\u2019s marker to go into the dressing room trailing only by one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hampel\u2019s seventh goal of the season 12 minutes into the second period pulled the Tigers even with the Muskies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The productive Tiger tandem of Peter Lopes and Ethan Lindsay earned their 15th and 20th assists, respectively, on Hampel\u2019s power play marker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tigers\u2019 next home game is an afternoon tilt on Tuesday, November 28 versus the North York Rangers. Puck drop will be High Noon. Come out and spend a Tuesday with the Tigers.  The OJHL game is being marketed as a \u201cSchool Game\u201d so many local students will be filling the classic black and yellow chairs at the ACC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The atmosphere at the arena promises to be buoyant for the boys!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir
Editor
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