Another road game, another win for the Owen Sound Attack.
Carter George made 26 saves to post his second shutout of the season and the Attack penalty-kill muzzled six power play chances for Sarnia, as Owen Sound blanked the Sting 4-0 in Ontario Hockey League action Friday night at Progressive Auto Sales Arena.
Declan Waddick, Ethan Burroughs, Cedrick Guindon and Landen Hookey scored for the Attack (9-9-2-0), which won back-to-back games for the first time since Oct. 28-29.
Owen Sound also extended its point-streak on the road to five games.
Sarnia (9-12) dropped its fourth in a row.
It was a big performance from George. He denied Tyson Doucette on a penalty shot in the second period when it was a 2-0 lead for Owen Sound, lunging and flinging his glove along the ice to close off the opening and deny the backhand attempt along the ice.
That was one of several stellar saves by the 17-year-old Attack goaltender.
The Attack led 2-0 after the first. Waddick opened the scoring 5:03 in, picking up his third goal in two games after being held without one for Owen Sound’s first 18 games.
Just over three minutes later Burroughs scored on the power play, picking up a puck that leaked through Nick Surzycia and poking it into the net to make it 2-0.
Beyond the Doucette penalty shot in the second, Sarnia had its chance to get back in the game early in the third. James Petrovski was called for slashing at 5:14 and then 46 seconds later Madden Steen was assessed an instigator after dropping the gloves and fighting Carson Hall.
The Sting would up with 1:14 of 5-on-3 power play time. It was still just a two-goal game. They couldn’t get anything done.
Guindon made it 3-0 at 10:55 of the third, picking up a loose puck after Servac Petrovsky put it towards the net and whipping it past Surzycia.
Three-and-a-half minutes later Hookey scored. Jackson Stewart won the puck down low after a Sarnia faceoff win. He then passed the puck out front to Hookey above the hash marks. A little toe drag to set and then a release and Hookey found the mesh past the glove of Surzycia. 4-0 Attack.
That goal capped what was surely a fun night for Hookey – a Sarnia native — scoring in front of lots of friends and family in a homecoming game. He also dropped the gloves with Cooper Way.
George made 26 saves in the win, while Surzycia stopped 16 taking the loss. Sarnia outshot Owen Sound 26-20 while going 0 for 6 on the power play; the Attack finished 1 for 3.
The Attack will continue a stretch of three road games in three nights on Saturday against the Flint Firebirds (9-8-1-1). Game time is 7 p.m. You can hear the play-by-play live on 560 CFOS, on Kia of Owen Sound-Terry’s Trailer Service Bear Radio.
