Sunday, May 22, 2011

LOOKING FOR A WIN

GAME DAY
2011 MasterCard Memorial Cup – Preliminary Round
Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors vs Kootenay Ice
Tonight, May 22, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Hershey Centre


MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – It’s a battle of two 0-1 teams at the 2011 MasterCard Memorial Cup this evening as the host Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors take on the Western Hockey League champion Kootenay Ice. Game time is 8:00 pm AST and can be seen on Rogers Sportsnet and RDS.

The Majors are coming off a 4-3 loss in the tournament opener on Friday night against the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League champion Saint John Sea Dogs. The played basically on par with the Sea Dogs for most of the night but were unable to get a late goal to tie it up.

Mississauga is currently on one of their worst stretches of the season. Going back to the Ontario Hockey League final against the Owen Sound Attack, the Majors have lost three straight contests five of their last six. The team lost only 15 games during the regular season and just one through the first three rounds of the playoffs.

They got into some penalty trouble on Friday night against Saint John, allowing the Sea Dogs to score three times while a man up. They’ll surely want to be more disciplined even if the officials are better.

Kootenay is coming off a rough loss last night. They trailed the Attack 2-0 entering the third period but fell apart, allowing the OHL champs to score three times and win easily by score of 5-0.

The Ice will in tough as they look to rebound tonight at the Hershey Centre. Their captain, Brayden McNabb, has been suspended by the Memorial Cup Disciplinary Committee for tonight’s match following his elbow-to-the-head of Attack star Joey Hishon.



Brian O’Neill, discipline chairman for the Memorial Cup, said in a release that “following review of the referee’s report, and watching all of the television footage of the incident, I determined that it was a reckless action by the player but not a deliberate attempt to injure.”

Tonight is a huge match for both teams. The team that comes out of it with an 0-2 record will be in rough shape moving forward.

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