Bandits take 2-0 series lead with 8-1 win over Canmore
BROOKS, AB – The Brooks Bandits scored four times in the second period to break a 1-1 deadlock, and outshot their opponents 62-20, as they took a two games to none series lead with an 8-1 win in Game 2 of their Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) South Division Semifinal with the Canmore Eagles on Saturday night.
Brooks has now won 35 straight games, as the series shifts to Canmore for Games 3 and 4 on Monday and Tuesday night.
Ryan Mahshie (Stoney Creek, ON) opened the scoring 8:56 into the game when his high slot wrister bounced behind Canmore goalie Thomas Davis and was kicked back into the net by the Eagle netminder. But Brent Schuldhaus tied the game for Canmore at 15:54 when he fired a wrist shot by Pierce Charleson (Aurora, ON) from the right circle at 15:54. It would be the only blemish on Charleson’s night in a 19-save performance.
Ray Christy (St. Paul, MN) broke the tie 8:32 into the second when he swept a puck home from the low slot, and on the next shift Simon Boyko (Mississauga, ON) scored on a wraparound to claim a two goal lead.