The Lancer men's hockey team were back in action at home this weekend at the Capri Pizzeria Recreation Complex hosting the Waterloo Warriors on Friday night where they defeated the black and gold 4-1.
The blue and gold welcomed the Laurier Golden Hawks on Saturday afternoon who suffered the same fate as their cross-town Waterloo area rivals who were at the CPRC the night before falling 4-1 to the Lancers on Saturday.
WEEKEND STATS
Aaron Shaw,
Logan Linklater,
Ray Hamlin, and
Keegan McMullen all scored on Friday.
McMullen notched two goals on Saturday and had a three-point game to lead the Lancers offensively over the weekend. The other goal scorers for the Lancers on Saturday were
Alex Cunningham and
Brady Hinz.
Lancers netminder
Nathan Torchia made 17 saves in the Friday night win and stood tall with another 25 saves on Saturday in the back-to-back winning cause on home ice.
FRIDAY GAME FLOW
A scoreless first period solved nothing before the Lancers were able to solve Waterloo's goaltender Mathias Onuska when Shaw scored late in the second period at 19:32 to make it a 1-0 game.
The rest of the game's goals came in the third period when Linklater doubled the Lancers lead scoring at 1:16 into the third to make it 2-0 from
Travis Hensrud and
Johnny Ulicny's assists.
Hamlin would get on the board and triple the Windsor lead at 13:50 when his goal from
Kirk Mullen and
Cayden Faust made the game further out of reach for Waterloo.
The Warriors would respond on the power play at 19:35 of the third when Tate Popple spoiled Torchia's chance for a shutout and cut the deficit down to 3-1.
The Lancers would then add an empty net insurance marker from McMullen beating the Warriors 4-1 on home ice before prepping to take on Laurier less than 24 hours later.
SATURDAY GAME FLOW
Unlike the game the night before, this contest saw the scoring opened much sooner with 19 seconds into the game McMullen scored his first of the game from
Ty Toews and
Matt McNamara to make it a 1-0 hockey game.
The Lancers would strike again at 7:17 in the second period when Cunningham scored off a deflected bounce from behind the net following a breakaway chance out of the penalty box to make it a 2-0 Lancer lead.
Samuel Williamson then scored an unassisted goal for the Golden Hawks at 12:48 into the middle frame to cut the Lancer lead in half and make it a 2-1 game.
The power play then went to work for the Lancers as Hinz scored his goal on the man advantage at 15:46 of the second from McMullen and
David Jesus to make it a restored two goal cushion and 3-1 score.
Later on in the third period, McMullen would haunt the Golden Hawks goaltender Tristan Malboeuf again scoring on the power play with a two-man advantage at 7:23 and earning his second of the game from Shaw and McNamara to make it a 4-1 score in favour of the hometown side. The Lancers would then hang on to clinch identical results from the night before to earn the weekend sweep and two wins in Windsor.
UP NEXT
This weekend the Lancers will be back on the road when they will travel up to Toronto to take on the TMU Bold on Friday night at the Mattamy Athletic Centre for a 6:00pm puck drop before taking on the Toronto Varsity Blues on Saturday afternoon at Varsity Arena.
Hockey fans can catch the road action next weekend streaming on OUA.Tv or follow the Windsor Lancers social media pages including X for live in game updates during.
