The Lancer Men's Hockey team dominated the visiting Lakehead Thunderwolves 5-1 in their home opener on Friday night at Windsor Arena.

 

With the win, the Lancers are now 1-2 on the season heading into game two of their doubleheader with the Thunderwolves on Saturday night. The puck is set to drop at 7:30pm at Windsor Arena.

 

Windsor opened the scoring five minutes into the first period with Brett Vandehogen's first goal of the season.

 

Lancer goaltender Jim Watt held the Thunderwolves off the scoreboard for the remainder of the period, as the Lancers went into the break up 1-0.
 

Less than a minute into the second, the Thunderwolves headed to the box and Windsor wasted no time taking advantage. Captain Kyle Lang scored his first of the season on the power play to make it 2-0.

 

Watt continued to be outstanding in net as he turned aside 16 shots throughout the period to keep Windsor ahead. 

Mike Lombardi scored his fourth of the season to round out the period to put Windsor up 3-0 heading into the third.

 

Again the Lancers started the period with a bang as Ryan Caicco gave Windsor a 4-0 lead just thirty-six seconds into the third.

The Thunderwolves were finally able to sneak one past Watt as they recorded their lone goal of the game on the power play just a few minutes later.

 

Windsor would seal the convincing victory one minute later as Scott Gillis scored the game's final goal to give the Lancers the impressive 5-1 victory.
 

Watt made 37 saves on the night, as Lakehead outshot the Lancers 38-32.

 

The two teams will battle it out again on Saturday night in the second game of their weekend doubleheader. Game time is 7:30pm at Windsor Arena.