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Box Score 2 The No. 4 ranked Lancer men's hockey team earned their 11th straight victory after a pair of road wins against the Ryerson Rams and Toronto Varsity Blues.
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With a 3-2 overtime win over Ryerson and a 6-5 score against Toronto, Windsor improved to 11-0-0 on the year and continue to be the only team in the CIS who are undefeated on the year.
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On Friday against Ryerson, the Lancers came out on top at the end of both the first and second periods. Forward
Dylan Denomme struck first on the power play, followed by
Daulton Siwak in the second. Despite the Rams outshooting the Lancers 25-24 by the end of the period, goaltender
Parker Van Buskirk kept the Lancers up by two.
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Nearly halfway through the third, Ryerson rookie defenceman Alex Basso cut the two goal deficit in half with a sharp slap shot from the blue line on a 5-on-3 power play. A desperate equaliser came with just 19 seconds left in regulation time, from Rams forward Domenic Alberga.
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With Windsor's seven shots to Ryerson's zero in both overtime periods, Windsor applied plenty of pressure on the Rams defense. Nearing the end of the 3-on-3 second overtime period, Lancers
Drew Palmer was able to sneak one past Passingham on the power play.
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Down 4-2 heading into the third period against Toronto, the OUA defending champion Lancers came back with a vengeance, scoring four goals in the third period to seal the come back win.
Third-year Lancers forward
Ryan Green of Essex, Ont., opened the scoring as he received a stretch pass for a partial break away and wired a shot into the bottom corner of the net. Windsor led 1-0 after the first 20 minutes of action.
Christian Finch got the Blues on the board 58 seconds into the second frame as he received a cross crease pass and one-timed it into the top corner of the net.
51 seconds later, fifth-year forward and assistant captain Michael Markovic caught Lancers netminder
Parker Van Buskirk off guard and buried the go-ahead goal.
Second-year forward Casey Knight notched his third goal of the season banging the puck in during a scramble in front of the net midway through the second period.
The Lancers cut the deficit to one with just over six minutes remaining in the frame when rookie forward
Dylan Seguin fired the puck under Blues goalie Michael Nishi's blocker; however, Toronto restored their two-goal cushion before the second intermission as fourth-year defenceman Marcus Yolevski received a centering pass in front and one-timed it in.
Windsor's
Matt Beaudoin scored 1:49 into the third period to bring the Lancers back within one.
Two minutes later, Nishi came up with a big save on a
Spencer Pommells breakaway and the Blues went up again as Brown scored Toronto's third powerplay marker of the game.
The back and forth battle ensued when third-year Lancers defenceman
Kenny Bradford scored on a 5-on-3 opportunity to bring it back within reach (5-4) with 10 minutes to go in the third.
Second-year Lancers forward
Eric Noel evened the score with 7:34 to go in the game and
Dylan Denomme put Windsor up for good with 3:32 remaining in the game.
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Windsor will host McGill in a re-match of last season's Queen's Cup final this Friday afternoon in a special game at 12:30pm at South Windsor Arena.