Brockville – Outshot? NO!, Outchanced? NO!, Outscored? Yes!
It was that kind of night for the Braves. It was an unfair debut for Jason Clarke as head coach of the Brockville Braves. He rolled into town on Friday afternoon and had no time to put his winning touch on the team. It was almost an introduction to the players and then they dropped the puck.
The Ottawa Junior Senators, under new coach Mark Grady, won their 7th in a row with a 4-1 win over the Braves. Ottawa’s first goal definitely looked like goalie interference from our end of the rink. Ryan Gerlich was left defenceless, no pun intended on the next two Sen’s goals. Their second goal was a 2 man breakaway from the Braves blueline and the super sniper Jack Matsukubo tapped the puck home to complete the play.
Poirier Goes Coastal
The Sens’s 3rd goal was a highlight reeler for sure. Poirier grabbed the puck at his own goalline, skated the length of the ice, beat two Braves defenders, and roofed a backhander past Ryan Gerlich. Coast to coast for sure.
An empty netter by Antoine Demers sealed the deal!
On the home side, Kayden Buller’s 4th goal of the campaign was the culmination of an inspiring Tic-Tac-Toe kind of play starting with Karpachov, then Charlie Poudrette slipped it cross-crease to Buller for the tap-in.
The Braves had a myriad of other scoring chances but the hockey Gods were not with them as they couldn’t score They out-chanced the Sens by a fair margin. Gerlich did his best to salvage the game. He foiled the Sens on a couple of breakaways and dazzled the crowd with a pair of saves on two close-in bang-bang-type chances by the Sens.
Sunday the Braves are in Carleton Place as the season starts to wind down and each game becomes critical as the teams jockey for playoff positions.
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