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McLeod Factors into all 5 goals as Steelheads Oust 67’s

The Mississauga Steelheads and Michael McLeod eliminated the Ottawa 67’s today with a 5-1 win at TD Place in the Canadian capital. They will move on to round two of the OHL’s Eastern Conference playoffs having defeated Ottawa four games to two.

Michael McLeod, the Devils prospect, put together a great performance, netting five points – two goals and three assists – and factoring in on all five of the Steelheads’ goals.

Mississauga opened the scoring at 2:48 of the second period when Spencer Watson scored his third of the playoffs. Michael McLeod and his brother Ryan assisted on the goal to make it 1-0 Steelheads.

McLeod then scored his first of the game at 4:55 of the second, which would go on to be the game winner. He got assists from his brother and Watson.

He then scored at the 9:13 mark of the second with Watson this time getting the primary assist and Ryan McLeod gaining the secondary.

Jacob Cascagnette made it 4-0 at 12:40 of the second with Michael McLeod and Stephen Gibson on the assists. Watson would add his second of the game, closing the scoring for the Steelheads with assists from the McLeod brothers at 4:53 of the third period.

Carter Robertson would score the lone goal for the 67’s at the 9:51 mark of the third.

Michael McLeod was named the first star of the game, with Watson (second star) and Ryan McLeod (third star) rounding them out. Goaltender Jacob Ingham made 19 saves on 20 shots faced for Mississauga.

In other Devils-related Ontario Hockey League news, the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds will face the Owen Sound Attack in the second round of the OHL Western Conference playoffs. Owen Sound defeated the Kitchener Rangers in round one, four games to one. Game one of that series will take place April 5 at the Essar Centre in Sault Ste. Marie.

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McLeod, Bastian Each Have Multi Point Game in OHL Playoff Opener

Despite the Devils being out of things in the NHL, there is other playoff hockey going on around North America. From the American Hockey League, where the Albany Devils are gearing up for a run at the Calder Cup, to the Canadian Hockey League, which will be finishing up with the Memorial Cup in May, to the NCAA Frozen Four, there is still plenty of meaningful hockey to be played. Some Devils prospects will be involved with most of them, so we will take a look at some of them from time to time over the next few months as they play out.

The Ontario Hockey League’s Mississauga Steelheads kicked off their first round playoff series this week with the Ottawa 67’s. The game took place March 24 at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario. The Steelheads have two Devils prospects on the roster, Mikey McLeod and Nathan Bastian. Each had a pretty good outing in their team’s 6-2 victory in game one.

McLeod had the opening goal for the Steelheads to tie things at one after Sasha Chmelevski gave Ottawa a 1-0 lead. Bastian then had the primary assist on the go-ahead goal (scored by Owen Tippett) as well as the secondary assist on the game-winning power play goal scored by Vili Saarijarvi. All of those goals came in the first period.

Bastian then scored a goal of his own at 3:32 of the second period to put things out of reach for Ottawa. McLeod then had the secondary assist on an empty netter scored by Trent Fox late in the third period.

In all, McLeod had a goal and an assist for two points while Bastian had a goal and two assists for three points.

Game two takes place at the Hershey Centre on Sunday.

In other news, former Devils beat writer Tom Gulitti, who now works for NHL.com, tweeted out yesterday that Boston University played North Dakota in the NCAA men’s hockey tournament and it had an interesting Devils connection.

Bobo Carpenter scored for Boston University while Christian Wolanin scored for North Dakota in the contest. While neither is a Devils prospect, they do have a Devils connection. Bobo’s father, Bob and Christian’s father, Craig, both played for New Jersey with Bob Carpenter winning a pair of Stanley Cups with the team as a player and a coach.