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Deni Goure of the Owen Sound Attack. Photo by Natalie Shaver/OHL Images
What a night for Deni Goure, Ethan Burroughs and the Owen Sound Attack power play.
Goure had five points, Burroughs four, as the Attack went 4-for-4 with the man advantage and rallied from one down in the third to beat the Sarnia Sting 6-4 in Ontario Hockey League action Friday night at Progressive Auto Sales Arena.
Goure scored twice, Burroughs scored twice, while Colby Barlow and Cedrick Guindon also had goals for the Attack (7-6-1).
“The players obviously executed super well,” Attack interim coach Darren Rumble says about the team’s power play success, giving credit to assistant coach Sean Teakle for his work on it. “That was the difference in the hockey game.”
Tyson Doucette, Cooper Way, Zach Filak and Easton Wainwright tallied for Sarnia (8-6), which scored three unanswered to turn a 3-1 deficit after the first period into a 4-3 lead in the third.
The Attack had a good first period.
Guindon got things 1:21 in, picking up a rebound in front of the Sarnia net and firing it past Nick Surzycia to give Owen Sound an early 1-0 lead. The goal extended Guindon’s point streak to five games, a stretch in which he’s scored seven times.
It didn’t take long for the Sting to tie it. Doucette got a shot off from the top of the circle on the left-side that got past Corbin Votary’s blocker. 1-1, three minutes in.
Then then Owen Sound power play went to work. Burroughs made it 2-1 at 7:52, finding a rebound off a Guindon shot that bounced high in the air and land near the crease. Burroughs’ stick was the first to it from the pile of people in front – including three Sting players – and he got enough to poke it low past Surzycia.
Burroughs scored again on the power play about four minutes later. Goure earned a clean face-off win in the offensive zone and Sam Sedley quickly passed it to Burroughs on the left-side, who ripped a one-timer past Surzycia to make it 3-1.
Things would swing Sarnia’s way around the midway mark of the second period.
Declan Waddick rushed the puck up the left-wing and entered the Sarnia zone and had his stick chopped in two, a play that went uncalled and then it was quickly turned back up ice. Wainwright ended up with the puck at the side of the goal and fed a pass to Way, who was unmarked not far from the crease on Votary’s glove side, and hit the net to cut the Attack lead to 3-2.
Sarnia tied it 1:32 later. Filak was near the side of the goal and tried to put a pass out front, and James Petrovski got his stick on it. The puck took a wild bounce right towards the top corner of the net, hitting the mesh over Votary’s shoulder and he started to move to his right with the intended direction of the pass. Filak’s eighth of the season tied the game 3-3.
Sarnia would take its first lead at 8:20 of the third period. Votary made the initial save on a Marko Sikic shot, but the rebound came right to Wainwright who had a lot of net to look at in tight and didn’t miss, putting the Sting in front 4-3.
Things got really interesting with just over six minutes to play. Cedrick Guindon was called for tripping, sending Sarnia to the power play with a one goal lead.
Goure ended that power play in just 12 seconds – winning a faceoff in the defensive zone, streaking up ice, taking a pass in the neutral zone and then trying to drive towards the net shorthanded. Mitch Young held him up and was called for holding on the play, ending the Sarnia power play.
Just over a minute later, the Sting took another penalty. Andrew Leblanc was called for tripping Sam Sedley, a penalty call that left Sting head coach Alan Letang visibly unhappy and pleading with the officials.
So, the Attack would get some time to work on the power play.
Barlow tied the game with 4:54 remaining, one-timing a pass from his office near the faceoff dot on the right side low past Surzycia to make it 4-4.
One-minute and four seconds later it was Goure with a blast of his own on the power play, putting the Attack back in front 5-4.
Goure would add an empty-netter at 18:59, scoring an important insurance marker and capping a five-point night for the Attack.
Votary made 22 saves in the win, while Surzycia stopped 23 taking the loss. The Attack outshot Sarnia 29-26 while going 4-for-4 on the power play; the Sting finished 0 for 2.
Saturday night, the Attack host the London Knights (8-4-0-1) at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. Game time is 7 p.m.
HOMECOMING FOR HOOKS
Attack forward Landen Hookey had plenty of friends and family in the stands at Progressive Auto Sales Arena Friday night. It was a homecoming game; Hookey is from Sarnia. He had an assist on the game-opening goal by Guindon.
FIRST WIN IN SARNIA SINCE 2021-22 SEASON
The Sting took three of four from the Attack in the 2022-23 OHL season, including both games at Progressive Auto Sales Arena. Prior to Friday, Owen Sound’s last win in Sarnia came on March 27, 2022.