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Shootout loss sees Wolves fall to Greyhounds

Extra period couldn’t settle tight game but Sudbury unable to capitalize on shootout chances
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Nolan Collins scored his fourth of the season to open Sunday's contest against the Soo Greyhounds. The Wolves went on to lose the game in a shootout.

The Sudbury Wolves fell to the Soo Greyhounds in OHL action on Sunday afternoon at Sudbury Arena but it took a shootout to determine the winner.

The back-and-forth, low-scoring affair saw Sudbury’s offence peppering Soo netminder Samuel Ivanov with 42 shots, while the Pack’s Kevyn Brassard faced exactly half that.

Neither team was able to capitalize on power plays during the contest either.

Sudbury opened the scoring at 14:49 of the first when Ethan Larmand and Landon McCallum teamed up to feed Nolan Collins who scored his fourth of the season to put the Wolve up 1-0.

At 6:55 of the second, the Greyhounds tied it up thanks to a Brenden Sirizzotti scoring his 11th of the year (assists, Kalvyn Watson and Kirill Kudryavtsev).

At 13:03 of the second, the Wolves retook the lead on a goal by Marc Boudreau (his fourth), with assists from André Anania and Jakub Chromiak.

The teams would battle back and forth without a goal until 9:01 of the third when the Soo would manage to tie it up thanks to Caeden Carlisle scoring his second goal of the year, assisted by Alex Kostov and Connor Clattenburg.

Knotted at 2-2 by the end of the third, the game went into a fourth period to try to determine a winner. The teams would trade shots for five minutes without success so the game went to a shootout.

While Sudbury’s Alex Pharand did manage to score during the shootout, the Greyhounds’ Bryce McConnell-Baker and Kalvyn Watson both scored to give the win to the Soo.

The loss drops the Wolves’ record to 15-18-3-2, which puts them at ninth in the Eastern Conference and 16th overall. Meanwhile, the Greyhounds improved theirs to 13-16-7-4, good enough for eighth in the Western Conference and 15th overall.


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