October 14, 2011
TITANS EDGE STARS, REMAIN UNDEAFEATED
October 14, 2011
TITANS EDGE STARS, REMAIN UNDEFEATED!The Temiscaming Titans were facing a Vaughan Stars team that showed up with only 12 skaters but it was the fast skating Stars that controlled the play for most of the period. Vaughan opened the scoring at 15:54 on a goal from Joseph Gatti. The lead was short lived as Ravi Chand on a goal mouth scramble tied the score. But with less than 2 minutes to play in the period while on a power play Luc Ricci blasted a slapper that beat Aaron Boyce high under the cross bar. The shots were 13-12 Titans.
Denis Lacourse
In the second period, the Titans seemed to be awaken from whatever they had in the first as they brought the shot count up to 20 in the period. Vaughan ran into penalty problems and this was what the Titans needed to get going on offence. Late in the period Andre Leclair notched his 12th goal of the season on an assist from Chris Levesque Robin Mendelsohn to tie the score at two. Shots in the second were 20-6 Titans. Stars goalie Robert Motan kept his team in the game with several nice saves.
The third period was barely four minutes old when the Titans high powered trio connected on the go ahead goal on a three way passing play ending with D.J. Tahbazian scoring from almost behind the goal line. But less than 2 minutes later the pesky Stars scored a power play goal to tie the score. Filip Hrivnak was the goal scorer. The Titans showing some resiliancy of their own scored the go ahead goal about 90 seconds later with Robin Mendelsohn tucking the puck off the inside cross bar to beat goaltender Motan. Then at the 9:23 mark Andre Leclair gave the Titans a two goal cushion with about ten minutes to play. But the Titans then received back to back minors and Vaughan scored two power play goals to tie the game. Filip Hrivnak and then Marcello Pozzebon. But the Titans fought back with some heavy hits that seem to slow down their opponents and this lead to the eventual game winning goal again from the big line as Mendelsohn scored his second with assists from Tahbazian & Leclair.
Aaron Boyce earned his league leading fifth victory as Robert Motan collected the loss. Shots were 46-32 Titans
3 Stars were Andre Leclair, Nicholas Balddassarra from the Stars and Silvester Sevcik (Stars)
The Titans hit the road this weekend with a game saturday evening against Toronto Canada Moose and then a short trip to play the Bucks in Bobcaygeon.