

Stratford was 0-3 with the man advantage, while Elmira was 1-8. Netminder Hayden Sabourin picked up the win, stopping 19 of the shots he faced. Shots were 23-18 in favour of the visitors. I’m just glad we came around at the end of it, where they (the players) got to learn from a win versus learning from a loss.” “I imagine the other team had not only a frustrated locker room, but a frustrated coach’s office as well. “The last seven minutes, there was a lot of fun to be a part of our side,” he said, noting that may not have been the case on the Stratford bench. And then just when you thought it was getting too late, the guys turned it around in a heartbeat, and all of a sudden the emotions went from feeling bad to the ultimate high,” said head coach Rob Collins of the third-period comeback. “Friday was the kind of a game where it looked like two teams who were somewhat familiar with each other, seeing how it was the third game against each other already, were feeling each other out a little bit. MacDougall rounded out the comeback with an empty-netter 24 seconds later to make the final score 4-2. The winning goal came at 19:02 off the stick of Grein, assisted by Madden MacDougall and Lammel. Less than four minutes later, the Kings tied it at 2-2 when Logan Crans (Jayden Lammel, Adam Grein) scored. A power-play goal at 13:57 courtesy of Luke Della Croce, assisted by Joey Martin and Brock Reinhart, opened the floodgates. It wasn’t until well into the third that Elmira found its mojo.
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In a scoreless first period, shots were just 5-4 for the visitors, and it was the Warriors who got on the board first with two goals in the middle frame, including a shorthanded effort. Last Friday’s victory in Stratford began slowly for the Kings. On the winning end of the 4-2 score September 30 in Stratford, the team fell by the same two-goal margin when Cambridge visited the WMC on Sunday.

The Elmira Sugar Kings split a pair of 4-2 decisions last weekend as they returned to Midwestern Conference play following a victorious jaunt to Niagara Region the week previous.
