The Greyhounds were hosting the Niagara IceDogs in OHL play as the Greyhounds are fighting for first place in the OHL’s West Division against eventual Memorial Cup host the Saginaw Spirit. The Spirit have won four straight and the Greyhounds who trail them in the standings by four points can’t afford to fall further behind.
Against the IceDogs, it would be McConnell-Barker who got his team going when he scored his prospect leading 16th goal just 4:53 into the contest. McConnell-Barker was able to pick up the puck during a goal mouth scrabble to put it into the IceDogs net for the goal.
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It was his 16th goal of the season and part of a night where the captain of the Soo put up seven shots on goal and won 12 out of 15 faceoffs. Since returning to the Greyhound lineup after missing over a month with a concussion, McConnell-Barker has gone 4-5-9 in the six games played.
Overall McConnell-Barker is 16-23-39 on the season.
Goalie Hugo Ollas stopped 21 shots as his Merrimack Warriors upset 17th-ranked New Hampshire 3-1 in Hockey East play. The win stopped a seven game losing streak for the team and a three game personal losing streak for Ollas.
Allowing just one power play goal, Ollas put in a workman-like performance shutting down New Hampshire for over 45 minutes stopping 13 shots over the game’s final two periods. The junior goalie improved his season totals to 5-8 with a 2.75 goals against and a 0.907 save percentage.
Brody Lamb had the primary assist on the only goal his ninth-ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers would need as they shut out Penn State for the second night in a row 3-0 in Big Ten play. Lamb and teammate Aaron Huglen worked a “two-on-one” breakaway to score Minnesota’s first goal of the game.
Sure we have been wanting to see Lamb shoot the puck more but he made a solid play, holding the puck long enough to draw the defender to him so Lamb could drop an easy pass to his linemate for the goal.
Lamb improves to 11-10-21
Jaroslav Chmelar was scoreless on three shots as his 13th-ranked Providence College upset seventh-ranked Maine 4-3 in Hockey East play. Chmelar playing in just his second day back from wrist surgery was credited with three shots,
Hank Kempf was scoreless as his 12th-ranked Cornell Big Red extended their unbeaten streak to 12 games (9W-0L-1OTL) with a 6-1 win over Union College in ECAC play. Big Red last lost in regulation on December 2nd to Colgate.
Ty Henricks was scoreless as his Muskegon Lumberjacks defeated the Youngstown Phantoms 5-3 in USHL play.
Maxim Barbashev was scoreless as his Rimouski Oceanic lost to the Gatineau Olympiques 5-2 in QMJHL play.
Did Not Play
Rasmus Larsson was not in the Green Bay Gamblers lineup tonight, we reached out to the team to find out why but did not receive a reply by the time this was sent out.
