{"id":9669,"date":"2015-01-28T18:18:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T23:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=9669"},"modified":"2015-02-04T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T21:26:08","slug":"midget-a-tigers-losing-ground-in-playoff-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/midget-a-tigers-losing-ground-in-playoff-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Midget A Tigers losing ground in playoff hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite scraping together less than a handful of wins over the regular season, the start of the York-Simcoe Minor Hockey League playoffs looked positive for the Midget A Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>On the back of a 3 \u2013 3 tie with the Richmond Hill Stars, the Tigers were looking to make an impact in the play-in round to kick off the postseason.<br \/>\nThe four-way battle between East Gwillimbury, Newmarket, Richmond Hill and Aurora began with a matchup against the East Gwillimbury Eagles, winners of four of their last five games.<\/p>\n<p>It was d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu for the Tigers as they once again found themselves in a 3 \u2013 3 tie.<\/p>\n<p>Monday night was a different story of defensive breakdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Although they found the most success against the Stars during the regular season, beating them twice, the Tigers were unable to match their success, eventually falling 4 \u2013 1.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers have their work cut out for them Thursday night, as they look to pick up some points against the undefeated Eagles on the road.<br \/>\nThey will have over a full week to recover before hosting the Newmarket Redmen on February 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite scraping together less than a handful of wins over the regular season, the start of the York-Simcoe Minor Hockey League playoffs looked positive for the Midget A Tigers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669","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=9669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}