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Terriers 'unravel', get blown out by powerful Siskins in Game 2

'They are a very skilled team. You can’t give them any opportunities or they will capitalize,' says Terriers captain; Game 3 goes this afternoon in Stayner

An 11-5 blowout loss on Saturday night has put the McLean & Dickey Orillia Terriers behind the eight ball in their second-round Provincial Junior Hockey League playoff series with the Stayner Siskins.

Just as they did in game one, the Terriers got the jump on the North Carruthers Division regular season champions with the first goal of the game. One minute into the contest, while grinding his way to the front of the net, forward Jayden Murison received a pass from Kory Lund and sniped his third of the playoffs past Siskins' goalie Nick Ciccarelli.

“Lund got on the puck quick, I called for it, and he saw me,” Murison explained after the game. “I was able to finish on it.”

At that moment, Murison felt the goal gave his team a sense of confidence.

“It got the boys going,” he said. “Unfortunately, it just didn’t really work out for us tonight.”

After a flurry of Terriers' chances, the Siskins finally found their footing at the other end of the ice. Forward Damen Boose took the puck behind the net and then fired it past Terriers’ goalie Reed Spinola on the wrap-around.

Siskins' forward Christopher Prucha used the momentum to fire his team’s second goal of the game past Spinola just one minute later, which led to the opening of the floodgates.

Siskins' forward Kyler MacNeil chased Spinola from the game a minute after the second goal by firing the puck from the slot which went off the post and in. Spinola stopped 14 of the 17 shots he faced on the night in only 13 minutes of ice time before being pulled by head coach Dalyn Telford.

“I wanted to see if we could try to spark something,” Telford explained of his decision after the game. “You could see things unraveling quick.”

Telford also used the opportunity to call a time-out.

“I told the guys to take a deep breath,” he said. “We got away from our game plan again.”  

The breather did not help; just 18 seconds after the change in net and the time-out, goaltender Carver Monroe faced his first shot of the game from Siskins' defenceman Ethan Allair, who rung his first goal of the playoffs off the post and in, putting the visitors out front 4-1 going into the locker room.

Siskins' forward Cody Marles buried a cross-crease pass from MacNeil to open the scoring in the second, but all hope wasn’t lost as the Terriers responded on the power play. Forward Devon Edmonds tapped one past Ciccarelli on a feed from Lund to bring the score to 5-2.

Hope was officially sucked out of the crowd of 461 Jr. C hockey fans at Rotary Place just 17 seconds later when Siskins' Forward Ty Roberts was left wide open and uncovered in front of the net before blasting one past Monroe who went on to let in eight goals on 31 shots.

The Siskins would add three more before Terriers’ forward Josh Brown fired back-to-back goals past Ciccarelli within the final two minutes of the frame, bringing the score to 9-4 after two periods.

In the third period, Roberts scored his second of the game for the Siskins, and Boose completed the hat-trick. With just five minutes left in the game, Terriers' defenceman Kaden Goggins scored his first of the playoffs after recently returning to the lineup from the injury reserve. However, it wasn’t enough to spark any miracle comeback, as the Terriers succumbed to the 11-5 defeat.

The Terriers will attempt to claw their way back into the series on Sunday afternoon when they travel to Stayner. Puck drop is at 1:30 p.m.

Captain Dylan Palomaki says his Terriers are going to have to play to perfection the rest of the way if they want to win the series.

“They are a very skilled team,” he said. “You can’t give them any opportunities or they will capitalize.”

Palomaki says there is still a feeling of belief in the Terriers’ locker room heading into Game 3.

“It’s not over until there are four wins in a series,” he said. “We need to be physical right off the hop, start strong, and play the whole 60 minutes.”

Game 4 will bring the series back to Orillia at Rotary Place on Wednesday. Game time is 7:30 p.m.


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Tyler Evans

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Tyler Evans got his start in the news business when he was just 15-years-old and now serves as a video producer and reporter with OrilliaMatters
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