OHL: Pancel leads Wolves over Greyhounds
Posted February 9, 2012 1:34 am.
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THE CANADIAN PRESS
SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. — Nathan Pancel scored a pair of goals to lead the Sudbury Wolves to a 6-3 win over the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds in Ontario Hockey League action Wednesday.
Nicholas Baptiste scored a goal and set up two others for Sudbury, while Samuel Schutt and Joshua Leivo added two assists each.
Defenceman Ryan Hanes added a goal and an assist for the Wolves while Michael Sgarbossa and Andrey Kuchin also scored.
Wolves goaltender Joel Vienneau stopped 27 shots in the win.
Brett Findlay paced the Greyhounds with a goal and an assist while Dylan Staples and David Broll also scored in the loss.
Jack Campbell stopped 31 shots for the Greyhounds (21-26-5)
The win was the third straight for the Wolves (28-18-4) after dropping a 7-3 decision to the Greyhounds in Sudbury on Feb. 3.
With the win, the Wolves move into fourth in the OHL’s Eastern Conference while the Greyhounds remain tied with the Guelph Storm for eighth in the Western Conference. The Storm have three games in hand on the Greyhounds.
Attack overcome strong performance from rookie Williams, beat Otters in shootout
ERIE, Pa. — Devin Williams deserved a better outcome in his third career Ontario Hockey League start.
The rookie goaltender stopped 33 of 34 shots in regulation and overtime and four more in a six-round shootout, but the Erie Otters fell 2-1 to the Owen Sound Attack on Wednesday.
“He’s got a great temperament,” Otters coach Robbie Ftorek said of Williams. “He just goes about his business. The guys play hard in front of him. Too bad we couldn’t get that (win) for him.”
Daniel Catenacci, who scored in regulation for the Attack (24-21-7), slipped a wrist shot past Williams on the game’s final attempt to hand the Otters (7-38-5) their second straight defeat.
Erie’s Stephen Harper scored tying goal 3:27 seconds the third period to force overtime. The rookie winger also scored in the second round of the shootout.
Sondre Olden, one of Erie’s best offensive performers, surprisingly wasn’t involved in the shootout. When asked about that, Ftorek said he believed the players he used “were going to score for us.”
Catenacci poked a rebound past Williams open the with 2:46 left in the second period.
Harper, one of the leading rookie goal scorers in the league, split the Attack defence early in the third for his 17th goal of the season.
Williams and Attack goaltender Jordan Binnington stood strong for the rest of regulation time.
Binnington finished with 29 saves.
The Otters had the best chance in the five-minute overtime, but Dane Fox’s rebound of his own shot slid by the right post in the final minute.
