Greyhounds Take Two Games to One Lead over Flint

Blake Speers and Colton White’s Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds took a two games to one lead in their best-of-seven series against the Flint Firebirds today with a 3-1 win tonight. The game was played at the Dort Federal Event Center in Flint, Michigan.

The Firebirds actually took the early lead when Kole Sherwood scored at 8:12 of the first period. The turnaround came 42 seconds into the second when White took a roughing penalty to put Flint on the power play.

However, Tim Gettinger scored a shorthanded goal (with an assist to Hayden Verbeek) to tie the game up at one at 2:17. And that was the way it would remain until Zachary Senyshyn scored the game winner with a little under seven minutes left in the third period. That goal came on the power play and was assisted by Conor Timmins and Morgan Frost.

Boris Katchouck scored an empty netter to put the game out of reach at 19:12 of the third unassisted.

It was after that goal that everything broke loose. As Bobby McIntyre of the Greyhounds and Nicholas Caamano of the Firebirds each got ten minute misconduct penalties while the Firebirds’ Alex Peters also got a roughing minor. All of those penalties came at 19:58.

Game four takes place in Flint on Wednesday, March 29.

Blake Speers Notches Goal, Assist in Greyhounds’ Win; Assist in Loss

There is one other major Devils prospect playing in the OHL playoffs right now. That is right wing Blake Speers of the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, who won the first game of their best-of-seven series with the Flint Firebirds last Thursday 5-2 at the Essar Centre in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Hayden Verbeek, the nephew of former Devil Pat Verbeek, opened the scoring for the Greyhounds at 10:34 of the first period. Jack Kopacka then doubled their lead about three minutes and twenty seconds later. Verbeek netted the game winner at 8:25 of the second period.

Speers’ points came in the third period when he assisted on Boris Katchouk’s insurance goal. He had the secondary assist while fellow Devils prospect Colton White had the primary at 7:29. Speers then added an empty net goal at 18:08 of the third period with an assist to Katchouk.

In game two, played Saturday, March 25 (also at the Soo), Speers added an assist as he got the secondary assist on Kopacka’s goal at 13:24 of the third period. The Greyhounds fell 6-3 in that game as Flint evened the series up at one game apiece.

The teams meet again on Monday at the Dort Federal Event Center in Flint, Michigan for game three.

Mississauga plays Ottawa in game two of their series later today and I will have the results of the Devils-Stars game later here as well.