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Samuel Burkholder of the Stoufl'ville Clippers tries to steal the puck from Orillia Ter- rier Isaac Emon during Ontario Minor Hockey Association minor atom action at the Stoufl'ville Arena last Saturday. Orillia won 4-0. CHASING A TERRIER M‘f STAFF PHOTO/NICK IWANYSHYN (SOUTH OF HWY. 1.881 WWW.WO IAS‘I’WEEK: Friday: Stouffville Spirit 3 vs. Pickering Pan- thers 2. Spirit record: 15 wins, three shootout wins, one overtime win, 16 losses, one shootout loss, 39 points. Fourth place in East Division. COMING UP: Sunday: Stouifville vs. Newmarket Hur- ricanes (Battle onork exhibition charity fundraising gamejat Ray Twinney Complex, Newmarket, 7:30 pm. Dec. 29: Stouffville vs. Hamilton Red Wings at Ray Twin- ney Complex, Newmarket, 4 pm. GAME NOTES: Playing on the road hasn't been too friendly recently for the Stoufiville Spirit In fact, when the Spirit entered last Fridajrs Central Canadian Hockey League road tilt in Pickering to face the Panthers, they had lostsixstraight. Butthose woescame to an end when the Spirit overcame a two-goal deficit to emerge with a 3-2 win.The Spirit trailed 1-0 after 20 minutes and 2-0 just 21 seconds into the second period. But prior to the midway point in the game, the Spirit got on the scoreboard when Kyle McLaughlin scored his first goal after joining the club from Aurora the night before. Late in the period, the Spirit cauyit what head coach Craig Donovan said was a big break when Chris Chiste intercepted a pass along the boards deep in Panthers' tenitory, spun around and directed a shotthat went in totiethegame.Thatgoal appearedtogivethe Spirit momentum entering the third period as Matt Neal deposited the gamewinning marker at the 2:23 mark. The Panthers outshot the Spirit 33-28. INSIDER: The Spirit will most likely lose defenceman Christian Finch for their next game thanks to a check- ing-from-behind infraction early in the second period. With Finch being ejected from Friday/s game, the Spirit were forced to go with four defencemen during the remainder of the contest. With the Spirit now in the Christmas bleak. Donovan SPORTS: Stoufl'ville Spirit Jr. A notebook Road woes over, team moves up wwwyoooaluecnnvsmmm 1 '888'31806875 WAVE..W WNMLWESTSIOEMFRWOOSTCO) 060""“3' INE JEI CH.Y.Lâ€"R For more on the Spirit, go to: www.5touflvillespirit com gave his team time off prior to this Sunday’s Battle of York exhibition charity fundraising game against the Newmarket Hurricanes. Proceeds from the contest will go to the Southlake Cancer Care Centre in the name of former Hurricane and Spirit player Kevin Lord, who passed away from cancerjn 2006, the Bloorview Kids Foundation in memory of Josh Sedore, son of Hur- ricanes assistant coach and former Spirit coach Steve Sedore and the Ki Ramolla memorial scholarship fund. Both young men died in 2008.1”ickets for the game are $10 and can be purchased at Boyd's Source for Sports in Stouffville. Children five and under are admitted free. GENERALLY SPEAKING: ‘Tnat was a great way to end our schedule @ing into the Christmas break with a cou- ple of wins," Donovan said in reference to his club’s 4-3 win lastThursday against the Peterborough Uftlock Stars, combined with Friday/s road triumph in Pickering. “We went into lastThursday's game in eighth place and now we're in fourth. Those two wins made a big difference." Reflecting on last Fridays road win, Donovan attributed it to his club's discipline. ‘We didn't deviate from our game plan. When you’re playing on the road and you're down, guys tend to try to do things on their own. But we played well as a team. We played a solid game." Another aspect that pleased Donovan was the perfor- mance of McLaughlin. “We've liked him for a long time and we knew he was a good player who didn't get enough of a chance to play when he was in Aurora. But with us, he'll get playing time and he'll be a good player for us. Along with having Matt Neal, it gives us depth in our centre position and he's good on winning faceoffs.’