Hounds keeping Otters close


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April 12, 2016

Soo Greyhounds have shown they can play with the Erie Otters for 60 minutes. And on Monday night at the Essar Centre, the Greyhounds needed a last-minute goal to defeat the visiting Otters 3-2 in Game 3 of their Ontario Hockey League playoff series.

The win for the Soo reduced Erie’s lead to two games to one in the second-round, best-of-seven Western Conference series. Game 4 is slated for the Essar Centre on Wednesday night.

Through the first three games of the series, the seventh-seeded Greyhounds have stayed right with an Otters team that finished first overall in the 20-team OHL during the regular season.

In the series opener, Erie tied the score with less than two minutes to play in the third period before winning 3-2 in overtime.

In Game 2, Erie needed an empty-net tally to close out a 3-1 victory.

And Game 3 went right to the wire as speedy forward Bobby MacIntyre scored his second goal of the evenly-played contest with 22 seconds left in the third period to give the Greyhounds a dramatic 3-2 triumph.

MacIntyre, who scored 20 goals during the regular season after totaling just 21 in three previous OHL seasons with the Mississauga Steelheads, said the Game 3 win for the Greyhounds was “rewarding.

“We were really close in the first two games. It feels good. It’s nice to get the first win at home,” MacIntyre told Postmedia Network.

Morgan Frost scored the other Greyhound goal on an absolutely-pretty two-man breakaway with fellow rookie forward Boris Katchouk.

Kyle Pettit and Dylan Strome scored for Erie, which finished 31 points ahead of the Soo during the regular season.

But in Game 3 of this playoff series, there was very-little difference between the two teams and the Greyhounds showed that they can keep the Otters close — and win.


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