Box Score The Windsor Lancers men's hockey team made the trip up the 401 to take on the Western Mustangs. The Lancers currently find themselves tied with the Varsity Blues for the last playoff spot in the OUA West and subsequently needing a big win in London. Despite a 3-1 deficit the Lancers were able to power back with four unanswered goals to beat the Mustangs in London, 5-3.
 
Game Stats
Despite outscoring the Mustangs, the Lancers were slightly outshot. The Lancers put 31 shots on net while Western managed to shoot 34 shots at Reinhart.
 
The Lancers had a clean sheet as far as the refs were concerned, not being called for a single penalty. The Mustangs played disciplined as well, only serving four minutes on two whistles.
 
The Lancers defense had a great effort in the third period, the eight shots the Mustangs managed was their lowest output of the game, keeping the Lancers' small lead intact.
 
Game Flow
The Mustangs got things going a little more than halfway into the first period when Ray Huether was able to get the puck past Jonathan Reinhart. The Mustangs offense kept their foot on the gas and was able to increase their lead at the 12:28 mark of the first period when Mitchell Fitzmorris scored. Luckily the Lancers were able to answer before the period was over. The answer came in the form of Ryan Shaw banging home a rebound to cut the deficit in half going into the first intermission.
 
Western's Fitzmorris opened the scoring in the second period when Trevor Warnaar helped Fitzmorris get one past Reinhart just four minutes into the period. Down 3-1 the Lancers needed to have the next goal. The Blue and Gold did better than getting the next goal, they got the next three.
 
Alex Friesen was able to get one past the Mustangs' Luke Peresinni just before the end of the second period to go into the final intermission facing a manageable one goal deficit.  In the third, Brennen Feasey took matters into his own hands, netting a power play goal just over six and half minutes into the period. Feasey got on the board again not even three minutes later as the Lancers took their first lead of the game with 11 minutes and change left. Lancers captain Blake Blondeel iced things away with an empty net goal with just over a minute left as the Lancers playoff hopes stayed alive, 5-3.
 
UP NEXT
Up next, the Lancers host the very same Western Mustangs in the final game of the regular season. The Windsor edition of this game will be played at South Windsor Arena with puck drop scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 10 at 7:30pm. The game can be seen live at OUA.tv.