{"id":34225,"date":"2024-02-16T13:28:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T18:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=34225"},"modified":"2024-02-16T13:28:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T18:28:28","slug":"3-burlington-barracudas-edge-7-central-york-panthers-2-1-in-u22-owhl-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/3-burlington-barracudas-edge-7-central-york-panthers-2-1-in-u22-owhl-action\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Burlington Barracudas edge #7 Central York Panthers 2-1 in U22 OWHL Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Burlington Barracudas swam into SARC on Saturday afternoon, sporting their vintage Edmonton Oiler jerseys and three of the top four scorers in the OWHL. The third-ranked team in Canada featured the league\u2019s top scorer Claire Murdoch (77 points in 27 games), third-place scorer Sara Manness (63 points in 24 games) and Bryn Prier (55 points in 28 games) who holds down fourth-place in the U22 scoring race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The short-handed Central York Panthers\u2014still missing four of their regular players\u2014put forth a valiant effort against one of the league\u2019s high-powered offences and lost a 2-1 squeaker. The Junior Panthers received another strong performance between the pipes from Izzy Whynot who turned aside 35 of the 37 shots the Barracudas fired at her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opening frame was end-to-end action as the third-place Barracudas (21-6-2-0) and the seventh-place Panthers (20-9-1-1) put on an offensive display that was foiled only by the goaltenders\u2014Burlington\u2019s Lauren Mooney and CYP\u2019s Whynot. The scoreless tie was broken at 12:30 when Barracuda forward Avery Peters made a power move off the left wing, found space between the circles, and fired a wrist shot past Whynot to put the bigger Barracudas on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Panthers evened the score 19 seconds into their second period power play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Panthers showed great tenacity to keep the puck in the O-Zone and pressured the Barracudas\u2019 PK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pressure paid off when Avery Johnston\u2019s laser wrist shot beat Mooney, on assists from Hailey McGuire and Abby Pak, to pull the Panthers into a 1-1 tie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The game-winning goal was scored twelve minutes later when the high-scoring combo of Murdoch and Manness clicked for the Barracudas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murdoch\u2019s league-leading 78th point of the campaign came in the form of an assist that sprung Manness along the left wing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Improbably, Manness received the pass, pulled the puck between her skates, and in a highlight reel move, lifted the puck high short side between the crossbar and Whynot\u2019s shoulder in a miniscule gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manness\u2019s game-winning-goal was a masterpiece befitting a gifted goal scorer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Panthers kept the Dynamic Duo off the scoresheet for the rest of the game, but a last minute flurry by the home side that included a clank off the goalpost with 45 seconds left came up a bit short versus Burlington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panthers Head Coach Steve Dempsey delineated what went right versus the Barracudas:  \u201cIzzy Whynot had another good game in net for us today. We made a good effort against the third-best team in the country and we\u2019re still missing key players. We did a good job of ramping up\u2014the effort continued to go up as the game continued. Our creativity was good at times, too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coach Dempsey was critical of his team\u2019s \u201cD-zone coverage was lacking and we got trapped too long in our own zone at times.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur final execution on our plays could have been sharper so we could capitalize on our scoring opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alas, it was a \u201clost weekend\u201d for the Panthers as they succumbed to the Barrie Sharks 4-3 on Sunday afternoon at SARC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zoe Li tallied two goals for Central York and Hailey McGuire added a single in the loss to the Sharks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Panthers established a 3-1 lead at 9:20 of the second frame and held their two-goal advantage for nine more minutes before the Sharks scored two in the last two minutes of play to tie the game 3-3 heading into the final period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barrie scored their third unanswered goal with 9:25 left in the final frame to earn the road victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Central York\u2019s Cheyenne Degeer earned two assists in the loss to Barrie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Panthers\u2019 leading scorer has 16 goals and 22 assists to hold down tenth spot in the OWHL scoring race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jim Stewart<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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