Hounds of the road
They are building on a good road record from 2015-2016 into an even-better showing away from home thus far this 2016-2017 Ontario Hockey League season.
To be sure, it’s almost as though the Soo Greyhounds are at home when playing on the road.
During the ’15-16 campaign, which was a rebuilding season for the Soo, the Greyhounds were 19-10-5 on the road and just 14-17-3 at home for a 33-27-8 overall record en route to a seventh-place finish in the Western Conference standings. Then, in the first round of the playoffs, the Soo won three of four road matches in Sarnia — including Game 7 — to stun the second-place Sting.
Thus far this ’16-17 season, the Western Conference-leading Greyhounds have a league-best road record of 17-3-0. Coupled with a 9-5-2 home record, the Greyhounds are 26-8-2 overall and in a dog fight for Western Conference supremacy with the London Knights, Erie Otters and Windsor Spitfires.
Road wins are always the key to winning any playoff series.
Now….. for our special teams, ….if we could only pick up a BIG TOUGH defenceman to clear the front of our net, and maybe a similar size forward to jam the front of the opposing teams’ nets, then LOOK OUT for our Hounds come playoff time !!!!!.