The Canadian Tire Atom Kinucks continued their WOAA Playoff
Winning ways, this time pulling out a victory in the dying seconds of a game
against the Shallow Lake Lakers.
After taking both games against the South Bruce Atom Reps in convincing fashion the next opponent was the Drayton Defenders at home on Feb 22 a team that the Kinucks had yet to face this year. After a brief feeling out period, with both teams trading chances, the Kincardine squad took control. With just under three minutes remaining in the first, Jordan Moulton showed some strong back-checking skills, picking the Drayton players' pocket at center ice and breaking in alone to bury a shot high glove. Next it was Carson Fletcher's turn to light the lamp as he took a pass from Jordan Beisel and Moulton to fire a bar-down beauty to stake the locals to a 2-0 lead. Drayton cut that in half two minutes later when both Kincardine D-Men fell and the Defender went offence on a break-away and made no mistake. JB was able to restore the 3-1 lead with a break-away tally of his own, assisted by Ben Voskamp. The third period was all Kincardine as they scored four more times to take a convincing 7-1 victory. The first by Wilson Shipp after some hard work by JB and Cam Renaud, the second a fine un-assisted tally by Moultsy that has the Defenders still looking for the jock straps he deked them out of and the third coming from the stick of Ben Voskamp, his first of the year after Moultsy did some fine offensive work and slid the puck cross-crease where Ben slammed it into the yawning cage. With two-and-a-half minutes remaining, Moulton completed his hat-trick with a hard slapper from the blue-line that was tipped by the Defender and over the goalie to finish off the scoring. Final score, Kincardine 7, Drayton 1.
Game Four of the WOAA playoffs was against the Shallow Lake Lakers on Wed Mar 05 at the Davidson Centre. The Lakers, another team the Kinucks had yet to face, were by all reports a tough team and one that would give the local squad all they could handle, which turned out to be the case. Not having been on the ice for a week, the CTC squad came out flying and put a ton of pressure on the Lakers only to be thwarted time and again by the Shallow Lake goalie. The Lakers broke through three minutes into the second frame as a miscue at centre ice allowed their player to break down the left wing and bury a shot into the far corner. The Kinucks continued to press and with just over a minute remaining in the second their hard work paid off when after three minutes of sustained pressure, Jordan Beisel circled from the right corner, into the slot and buried a hard wrister 5-hole. Ben Voskamp was awarded the only assist on the goal. Shallow Lake didn’t get their reputation for being a tough team to beat for no reason and they proved it by pressuring the Kinucks in the third and capitalizing at the eight and a half minute mark when a Laker shot was re-directed behind Ryan Tanner in the Kincardine net. Two minutes later, this nail-biter got even more so when JB took a pass out of the corner from Cody McLelland and replicated his earlier 5-hole shot to tie the game at twos. Cue the heroics! With the Lakers pressing for the win, Ryan made a huge save in the dying seconds only to have JB pick up the loose puck, feed it to Nolan MacKinnon who rushed up on a 2 on 2 with Jordan Moulton. After receiving a beauty pass from MacKinnon at the Laker blue-line, Moultsy made a sweet deke on the remaining defenceman and buried the biscuit high glove with just 13 seconds left on the clock to eke out the 3-2 victory.