LAST GAME RECAP

The Gens were in Ottawa on Friday night, hoping to continue their climb of the eastern conference standings. Oshawa arrives in the Nation’s Capital, hot off the heels of two big wins last week, over the Sudbury Wolves 8-5 and Hamilton Bulldogs 3-2.

It was a depleted Generals lineup, dressing only 10 forwards on Friday night, missing leading scorer Ryan Gagnier, and other forwards Cameron Butler, Ty Petrou, Luke Torrance and Jordyn Ertel.

Oshawa came out flying, hemming the 67’s into their own zone early, doing anything they could to prevent an offensive chance from Ottawa. It wasn’t long before the 67’s started finding their groove, and exerting their own pressure onto the Generals. Nikita Parfenyuk caught in his own zone, took a penalty giving Ottawa a power play chance – one that Oshawa pretty handily killed off.

Not long after, the Gens’ league-best power play was given a chance of their own. Off the ensuing draw, the Generals won the draw faceoff back, moved the puck over to Rolofs who made no mistake – rifling home his 22nd of the season, to give Oshawa a 1-0 lead. With an assist on Rolofs’ opener, Dylan Roobroeck extended his point streak to eight games.

The opening frame ended with Ottawa leading the shots 8-3.

Ottawa started the second period on a power play, giving Vinzenz Rohrer a wide open cage to make it 1-1, under a minute into the second period. The momentum for the next five minutes went all the way to the 67’s, pouring on o-zone pressure and chances onto the Generals and Carter Bickle. The 67’s thought they got their first lead of the game, but play was immediately waved-off to due goaltender interference on the play.

Just 15 seconds after the no-goal call, a bouncing puck hit off the end boards and back into the slot, where Brady Stonehouse finished the play into a wide-open net. It only got worse for Oshawa, as the one of the hottest players in the OHL right now was left all-alone in the slot, ripping home his 33rd of the season to give Ottawa the 3-1 lead.

Ottawa would add two more late in the 2nd period to extend the 67’s lead to 5-1. Oshawa managed just two shots in the entire period, outshot 21-2 in the frame, and 29-5 overall after 40 minutes.

Following an eventuful second period, it took until the final two seconds of the third for either team to find the back of the net again. This time, it was Oshawa scoring their second power play goal of the game, again off the stick of Stuart Rolofs.

The Gens would drop the game 5-2 to the league’s best in Ottawa, being outshot 34-13 in the game. Oshawa falls back to 9th in the eastern conference as the Wolves were victorious in their Friday night game against the Erie Otters.

Oshawa’s next action is tomorrow night at home, against Patrick Leaver and the Guelph Storm, with puck drop scheduled for 7:05.