{"id":35547,"date":"2024-12-12T15:06:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T20:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=35547"},"modified":"2024-12-19T15:36:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T20:36:13","slug":"buscarinis-2-goal-matinee-performance-paces-short-handed-tigers-but-aurora-loses-6-2-to-jrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/buscarinis-2-goal-matinee-performance-paces-short-handed-tigers-but-aurora-loses-6-2-to-jrc\/","title":{"rendered":"Buscarini\u2019s 2-goal matinee performance paces short-handed Tigers, but Aurora loses 6-2 to JRC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jamie Buscarini fired both goals for the Aurora Tigers and line-mate Luc Warner added two assists, but the rookie-laden squad lost 6-2 to the Toronto Junior Canadians on Tuesday afternoon at the ACC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tigers were missing two of their top scorers\u2014Simon Howard and Andreas Mikrogianniakis\u2014due to a high school exam and OJHL All-Star Team obligations, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 120 spirited school kids and four staff members from Wellington Public School enlivened the venerable arena for the Tigers\u2019 matinee performance. The school group witnessed entertaining Junior hockey as the teams battled to a scoreless tie for 30 minutes largely due to a fine display of puck-stopping by Tigers\u2019 goaltender Erik Powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aurora\u2019s rookie netminder made 24 saves in the first 31 minutes of play and kept his team in the contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buscarini gave the school kids and their teachers something to cheer about when he opened the scoring at 11:46 of the second period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a goalmouth scramble, Buscarini pushed the puck past JRC netminder Amir Valiullin with linemates Cayden Smith and Luc Warner earning assists on Buscarini\u2019s second of the season. The rookie forward described his go-ahead goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI went hard to the net after we won the draw and Smith set me up. I was lucky to knock it in.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite being outshot 22-10 at the time of Buscarini\u2019s goal, the opportunistic Tigers maintained their precarious one-goal lead against the high-flying Canadians until Aiden Al-Joundi tapped in his own rebound past Powers with 8:12 remaining in the middle frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like sharks sensing blood in the water, red-clad JRC pounced on the young Tigers in the waning minutes of the second period. Lucas Teixeira neatly deflected Dylan Bly\u2019s cross-ice pass past Powers at 5:58 and Toronto secured its first lead of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Teixeira\u2019s tally, Aurora Head Coach Tom Milne called a timeout to steady his white-clad youngsters, but the rally by \u2018Le Bleu, Blanc, et Rouge\u2019 was relentless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 4:56, JRC\u2019s Gabriel Ciarallo broke through the Tigers\u2019 defense and roofed one over Powers for his seventeenth of the season and Toronto\u2019s third goal in four minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ninety seconds into the final frame, Illia Shybinkskyi blasted a shot from the left point that eluded Powers and squeaked between his pads\u2014prompting a goaltender change at 18:28 by Coach Milne.  Christopher Thompson entered the fray with his team trailing 4-1 and was tested immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milne reinstalled Powers between the pipes after Thompson had shut out JRC for 138 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With JRC\u2019s Jay Feldberg and Aurora\u2019s Captain Nicholas Brady in the sin bin for roughing after the whistle, Toronto was assessed a bench minor for too many men on the ice. The infraction gave the Tigers a 4-on-3 advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aurora\u2019s power play seized the opportunity and converted with six minutes remaining in the third period. Liam Longo\u2019s laser from the point deflected off Buscarini and past Valiullun for his second of the game. Buscarini described his third of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe got puck possession off the draw and Liam\u2019s shot ticked off my glove into the net.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Longo and Warner earned assists on the power play goal that narrowed Aurora\u2019s deficit to 4-2 with six minutes to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite Buscarini\u2019s goal-scoring heroics, Warner\u2019s playmaking prowess, and the Tigers\u2019 gutsy play in the third period with Powers pulled for an extra attacker at 2:30, JRC took advantage of the home team\u2019s strategic gamble in the final minute of play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With 42.7 seconds left on the clock, Jordan Karafile lifted a soft shot from the neutral zone that bounced slowly into the Tigers\u2019 empty net.  Feldberg closed the scoring when he slammed the puck into the vacated cage with 25.5 seconds left to provide Toronto\u2019s margin of victory.<\/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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