For the second Sunday in a row, the Aurora Tigers won a road game decisively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a tip of the cap to Bill Murray\u2019s Groundhog Day<\/em>, the Tigers repeated history by ripping the North York Rangers 6-1 at Herb Carnegie Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last Sunday, they upset the second-place Toronto Junior Canadiens 5-2 in Newmarket in the squad\u2019s best game of the 2024-25 campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aurora\u2019s season-long scoring leaders figured prominently in the decisive win over the last-place Rangers (5-40-1-0).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Leading goal scorer Simon Howard led the Tigers\u2019 attack with three goals. Assist leader Matthew Johnson had a four-point night in North York with a goal and three helpers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Six minutes into the game, Howard fired his 13th<\/sup> of the season to give the visitors a 1-0 lead. Howard\u2019s power play goal with less than five minutes to go in the opening frame gave the Tigers a two-goal lead. Johnson assisted on both of Howard\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aurora resident Jack Rispin\u2019s power play goal at 4:11 of the second period put the Tigers up 3-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Johnston earned his 26th<\/sup> assist of the season when he fed Cayden Smith who fired the puck past Rangers\u2019 goaltender Dylan Dewachter at 11:56.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mason Wharton got the Rangers on the scoreboard at 14:04, but Howard completed his hat trick less than two minutes later to restore the Tigers\u2019 four-goal lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Johnson\u2019s short-handed goal at 14:42 of the third period closed the Tigers\u2019 six-goal outburst in Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aurora goaltender Christopher Thompson earned the win by repelling 29 of the 30 shots he faced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the victory, the Tigers improved their eleventh-place East Division record to 10-33-0-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Jim Stewart<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the second Sunday in a row, the Aurora Tigers won a road game decisively. In a tip of the cap to Bill Murray\u2019s Groundhog Day, the Tigers repeated history by ripping the North York Rangers 6-1 at Herb Carnegie Arena. Last Sunday, they upset the second-place Toronto Junior Canadiens 5-2 in Newmarket in the […]<\/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-35800","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\/35800","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=35800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35801,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35800\/revisions\/35801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}