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Wolves demolish Petes to remain unbeaten on home ice

BY SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW [email protected] When the Sudbury Wolves' offensive machine finally got rolling against the Peterborough Petes, it was impressive.
BY SCOTT HUNTER HADDOW

When the Sudbury Wolves' offensive machine finally got rolling against the Peterborough Petes, it was impressive.

The Wolves exploded for five goals in the third period of Sunday's afternoon contest at the Sudbury arena en route to a 7-2 thrashing of the Petes.

Once again, Wolves rookie Ben Pouliot was front and centre in the impressive offensive explosion, as he ripped two goals, giving him eight for the season.

The game was a rather dull affair for the first two periods. The Wolves held a tight 2-1 lead going into the third frame before the goal-scoring outburst.

Head coach and general manager Mike Foligno was quick to point out that his troops stuck to the game plan, resulting in the winning effort.

"You're faced with adversity a little bit to start that game, we had to kill off a few penalties in a row and then all of a sudden we get our power play opportunities and we don't capitalize, so you're thinking, as a player, do we change it all up?, or do we do our own thing, or stick with the game plan," said Foligno.

"For the most part we tried to get in their heads to stay with the game plan. They really worked it to a tee in the third period. We wore them down a little bit. Guys started capitalizing. We stayed with it, and the guys had a little extra hop in their skating, and then we started generating offence. It was a good, solid effort."

The offensive outburst did wonders for the teams' collective confidence.

"I think we have the offence in this room to do that every game," said Bobby Chaumont. "In the third period, we played as a team and every line was rolling. We got power play goals and even strength goals. It went really well.

"Against the Brampton Battalion (on Friday night) we had plenty of chances, but the puck wasn't going in. Today, we really threw the puck at the net, the result was seven goals, so we have to keep doing that, and we will be successful."

The Wolves opened the scoring in the first period when Mike Mills tapped the puck past Petes' goalie Jeff MacDougald at 9:43.

The Petes tied the game early on the power play in the second period when Liam Reddox jammed the puck past Wolves' goalie Patrick Ehelechner at 1:49.

The teams remained tied until late in the second frame when Ryan hastings' big blast from the point made its way through traffic and eluded MacDougald at 19:09.

Then the Wolves offence came alive in a big way.

In a span of 1:31, the Wolves pumped three goals past a hapless MacDougald.

Stefan Blaho danced into the slot and roofed a hard shot upstairs to make it 3-1 at 4:26.

Seconds later, Pouliot zoomed into the high slot and wired a perfect wrist shot past MacDougald at 5:14.

Then, Luke dubbin scored on the power play at 5:57 to make it 5-1.

Pouliot and Rafal Martynowski rounded out the scoring for the Wolves.

Sudbury native and Petes' forward Jadran Beljo engaged Wolves' defenceman Thomas Sample with disastrous results. Sample fed Beljo a series of hard punches before dispatching him equally hard to the ice.

Mark Flood tallied a late goal for the Petes, but it was too little, too late, as the Wolves skated away with the two points, placing them third in the Central Division with 12 points. The Mississauga IceDogs sit second, with 13 points.

On Friday night, the Wolves tied the Brampton Battalion 2-2 at the Sudbury Arena.

Ryan McDonough and Kyle Musselman scored for the Wolves.

Ehelechner was solid, making 36 saves.

The Wolves are on the road this weekend. On Friday, Oct. 22, the Wolves take on the Guelph Storm. On Saturday, they play the Erie Otters. Finally, on Sunday, the Wolves square off against the Brampton Battalion.







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