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Golden Hawks split weekend action with Fergus Devils

December 31, 2013   ·   0 Comments

By Brian Lockhart
The Caledon Golden Hawks had a tough time with the Fergus Devils over the weekend.
They lost their first game on the road in Fergus, then regrouped and took the second game in a shoot-out after giving up a two-goal lead in the third period on home ice in Caledon East.
The Hawks came up short in the first game when they travelled to Fergus Friday night.
The Devils were leading 2-1 at the end of the first period. What made the one-goal deficit even harder to swallow was the second Fergus goal came on a short-handed effort when they had a man in the penalty box.
Brett Bloor notched the Caledon first period single.
The Hawks were back in the game when Rocky Furfari scored on a power play in the second period to tie it up.
A third Devils’ goal placed the Fergus squad back in the lead, but the Hawks’ Adam Breen scored at 13:21 to make it a 3-3 game going into the third period.
Fergus took the game when they scored on a power play at 4:24 into the third period and the Hawks couldn’t tie it up before the buzzer sounded.
“We weren’t skating hard, we weren’t hitting,” said Golden Hawk forward Adam Breen. “The main thing there was we weren’t hitting. Every time we had the puck they body checked us.”
The return to Caledon for a rematch Sunday night had the Hawks leading by two at the end of the first period on goals from Daniel Cafagna and an unassisted effort by Patrick Savella.
After a scoreless second frame, things fell apart for Caledon when the Devils scored at 7:46 into the third period then tied it up on a power play just less than three minutes later.
“We’ve had a lot of trouble in the past in the third period,” Breen said of allowing the Fergus squad to get back in the game in the final 20 minutes. “We’ve always come out strong against these guys, then the third was trouble. I think midway in the second, was when we backed off and became more defensive. That’s why we didn’t score more goals.”
The game went into an over time period with no scoring, leading to the shoot-out.
“It’s open ice,” Breen said of playing the four-on-four overtime. “It’s hard to get a lot going with only four players on the ice.”
Both teams had four shooters on the ice for the shoot-out with no one scoring.
Shooter number five for Fergus missed with Caledon’s Steve Klomp scoring on the fifth Hawks’ attempt to take the win.
The Hawks have had more than their share of overtime play this season.
They have played 11 games that went into extra time, and seven of those games had to go to a shoot-out to decide a winner.
They have won over Fergus all three times the games went into overtime with one win during the overtime period and two wins over the Devils in shoot-outs, including Sunday night’s game.
Over all, they have won two and lost two in overtime play, and have won four out of seven games that were decided with a shoot-out.
The Golden Hawks will travel to Erin Saturday (Jan. 4) to take on the Shamrocks.
They return to home ice in Caledon East Sunday to host the Shamrocks for the second game in a row.
Game time is 7 p.m.

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