{"id":35247,"date":"2024-10-24T16:24:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T20:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=35247"},"modified":"2024-10-24T16:24:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T20:24:42","slug":"tigers-losing-streak-snapped-with-thrilling-2-1-ot-win-over-toronto-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/tigers-losing-streak-snapped-with-thrilling-2-1-ot-win-over-toronto-patriots\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers\u2019 losing streak snapped with thrilling 2-1 OT win over Toronto Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s call it addition by subtraction, but days after jettisoning three of its veterans, the Aurora Tigers inexplicably defeated the Toronto Patriots 2-1 in OT on Friday night at the ACC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The significant upset of OJHL West\u2019s fourth-place squad was a big home ice victory for the young Tigers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Patriots (10-3-0-1) came into the game heavy favorites to defeat the veteran-deprived Tigers (4-8-0-1), but it was Aurora\u2019s Luc Warner who opened the scoring at 3:46 of the first period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Aurora resident\u2019s first goal of the season was assisted by another Auroran\u2014Tristen Aben\u2014and Michael Piao.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patriot forward Gabriel Mamedov fired his eighth goal of the campaign\u2014assisted by Brice Cooke and Anthony Giacolone\u2014to tie the game 1-1 thirteen minutes into the middle frame. The Tigers and Patriots battled through a scoreless third period to send the game to OT.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tigers\u2019 rookie forward Luke Howard was the overtime hero\u2014notching his second of the season at 5:09 of the extra frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simon Howard and Justin Pavese earned assists on the Tigers\u2019 game-winning goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matthew Humphries turned in a strong performance between the pipes to earn the W.&nbsp; The Tigers\u2019 6\u20194\u201d rookie netminder kicked out 32 of the 33 shots he faced and helped snap Aurora\u2019s four-game losing streak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tenth-place Tigers host the fifth-place Stouffville Spirit (8-6-0-2) on Friday, October 25 at the Aurora Community Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Puck drop is set for 7.30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Jim Stewart<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s call it addition by subtraction, but days after jettisoning three of its veterans, the Aurora Tigers inexplicably defeated the Toronto Patriots 2-1 in OT on Friday night at the ACC. The significant upset of OJHL West\u2019s fourth-place squad was a big home ice victory for the young Tigers. The Patriots (10-3-0-1) came into the [&hellip;]<\/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-35247","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\/35247","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=35247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}