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LASTWEEK: Saturday: Stouflvilie Spirit 3 vs Oakvllle Blades 3 (overtime). Tuesday: Whitby Fury 2 vs. Spirit 1. Spirit record: 1442-2-30. third place in North Division. comma UP: Saturday vs. Lindsay Muskies at Stouflviile Arena, 7:30 pm. Sunday at Toronto Jr. Canadians, 7:30 pm. GAME NOTES: The» Stouflville Spirit are in a bit of a slump. But what ails me Spirit is something that can easily be rec- tified in terms of generating some offence. The lack of productivity hurt the Spirit when they travelled to Whitby for their Ontario Junior Hockey League tiit against the Fury as they came out on the short end of a 2-1 verdict Tuesday. Scott Kirton and Nik Coric with a power play goal just before the midway point of the opening period staked the Fury to a 2-0 lead through the opening 20 minutes. After a scoreless second period and with time winding down, Spirit head coach Jeri Perrin pulled goalkeeper Aaron Taylor in favour of an extra attacker. The move paid off as Alex Gilmour scored with just 53 seconds remaining in regulation time to get the Spirit to within one. But that would be all of the offence the Spirit would generate before time expired.The Fury outshot the Spirit, who suffered their third straight road tilt. 32-31. The loss came on the heels of a 3-3 overtime tie against the Oakville Blades at the Stouflviile Arena Saturday. Sav- ing the day for the Spirit was Gilmour. who scored with just Spartans In Oshawa tourney The Stouffville District Secondary School Spartans lost their York Region Athletic Asso- ciation senior boys' tier one hockey contest 3-1 JR. A NOTEBOOK Lack of scoring doesn’t phase Spirit coach under two and a half minutes remaining in regulation time totiethescoreandsetthestagefmtwoscorelessovertime frames. With the Blades nursing a 2-1 lead entering the final 20 minutes of regulation time, the Spirit tied the game just 63 seconds into the third period on a goal by Brodie Tutton. But the Blades battled back to take a 3-2 lead on a goal by Kamil Tkaczuk past the midway mark of the period to set the stage for Gilmours game-tying marker. The Spirit opened the scoring in the first period on a power play goal by Matthew Dunlop that stood entering the first intermissionlhe Spirit outshot the Blades 47-43. INSIDER: The Spirit sent fOrward Matt Tustin to the Und- say Muskies in exchange for cash. Spirit director of player personnel Frank Robinson said the move was done to give Tustin more ice time. in 21 games with the Spifi‘l,TUStin had one goal and two assists. Nick Thomakos continues to lead the Spirit in team scoring with 12 goals and 19 assists in 26 games played. Former Spirit forward Drake Caggiula continues to lead the University of North Dakota men's hockey team in scoring alter he collected a pair of assists in his club's 3-2 win over visiting University of Nebraska-Omaha, Saturday. in 15 games. the junior forward has seven goals and 13 assists. Stouflville resident and American lntemational College junior forward Chris Parter earned one assist in his club's 3-2 road loss to Dartmouth College Saturday. Through 13 Roberts and Quinten Volpe scored in a 2-2 tie with the Cardinals last week. to Markham's St. Brother Andne Catholic High School Cardinals at Mount Joy Arena 'Ihesday. Zach Roberts scored for Stoufiville. The Spartans are in the Maxwell Heights Secondary School Toumament in Whitby and Oshawa this week before resuming league play at Huron Heights (Nevmiarket) at the Magna Centre starting at 2:45 pm. Monday. games Porter, who also serves as the club's assistant cap tain. had one goal and eight assists. RENEW.“ SPEAKING: “it was a good game: said Spirit head coach Jeff Pemn on Tuesday's loss. "Both teams could have won. We're having a tough time scoring right now. We're hitting posts or their goalie gets hot But it happens. You go through this all the time during a season. “But our guys have been playing well and we can't comâ€" plain with that." In looking ahead to their next two games that they will play in as many days, starting against the Undsay Muskies at the Stouflville Arena Saturday, followed by a road tilt against the Tomato Junior Canadiens Sunday. Perrin was quick to acknowledge they will be crucial at this juncture of the sea- son in terms of their regular season positioning within the North Division standings. “it's an important game.‘ Pemn said of the game with Lind- sey. “We've got to keep them behind us in the standings and at the same time. try to gain gound on the teams above us. 'The last time we played Toronto we won (2-1 on Nov. 15), but we had to hang on. 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