Over all three games against the Beast, Massa stopped 108 of 115 shots on goal.
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Our penalty kill was great, our power play was solid.” said Massa describing the game. They played the right way for sixty minutes. “I just can’t speak more about the guys in front of me tonight. Looking surprisingly not-exhausted after a heavy workload of three games in four days, and stopping 42 of 44 shots-on-goal in Sunday’s game, the humble Massa went out of his way to credit his teammates for the win. Ultimately, you can’t talk about this game, or this series, without acknowledging the incredible effort put in by goaltender Ryan Massa. It would have been his first goal of the game, but he wound up actually getting that with an assist from Camaranesi a few minutes later. Miller, the local favourite from Orangeville, only a short drive north (except at rush hour), had a breakaway just before the half way mark of the third. In fact, they killed off all of them in the game.Īs interesting as it was for those Solar Bears to get all those goals, I noted many near misses too. Camaranesi had a scoring chance with 1:45 left in the first on a nice pass from Denver Manderson Eric Baier opened the second period with a quick snap that looked like it could have gone in.Īll this time the Solar Bears were also effectively killing penalties, including a 3-on-3 in the third. While Fucale was dumped for the third, he still stopped 19 SOG in the first two frames, and many were great scoring chances. There was a lot more going on beyond the goals.
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It didn’t help much as Joe Perry picked up another goal to start the third period when he was left open in front of the net and found the puck on his stick thanks to Faille, scoring the Solar Bears sixth unanswered goal. The Beast coach had seen enough and pulled out Fucale for the third period in favour of Andrew D’Agostini. Tony Camaranesi, Derek Angeli, Milos Bubela (x2), and Chris Crane to wrap up the second period. The Solar Bears would score the next six goals. That is when the flood gates opened and Fucale broke down. On the power-play a flubbed pass to Brenden Miller at center ice led to a turnover and a short-handed goal scored by Brandon LOL Favorite part of the game? Faille and Crane on the Kiss Cam!!! my Bears! /wqyd0sLSKx- Angela Ayala March 26, 2017 Willie Corrin, who played with the Solar Bears and Toronto Marlies earlier this season, went to the box on a double-minor. Interestingly, the game actually didn’t start off in the Solar Bears favour. Beast goalie Zach Fucale has seen several starts against the Solar Bears this season, but he wouldn’t end this one. It seems they just have their number.Ĭapping it off was a 7-2 victory Sunday during which the Bears scored six goals in a row, wearing their blue and white Maple Leafs style sweaters. Of their 30 loses this season, a hilariously high 20% are at the hands of the Solar Bears. They have a 37-22-3-5 record this season. Make no mistake, the Beast are a good team. The Beast actually traveled to Orlando earlier this season for the first time and they were also swept there in three games too. This was the second year in a row the Solar Bears swept the Beast on their annual visit to Brampton. Good progress up the standings was made last weekend with a three game sweep against the Brampton Beast. “It’s not to good for the coach, I’ll tell ya that. He jokingly added parity in the ECHL has some drawbacks. this makes hockey interesting, and I think it’s great for the fans” he said after Sunday’s game. “Would I like to be 20 points up on everybody? Of course. Solar Bears’ Coach (and ex-Maple Leaf) Drake Berehowsky is looking forward to the challenge of closing out the season in a tight race enjoying how the ECHL has significantly improved since his first term as coach in the 2012-13 season. In an unlikely, but still possible scenario, it may come down to whether the Cincinnati Cyclones win their final game of the season, which, per the official schedule, starts exactly 5 minutes later than the Solar Bears’ final game that same night. It’s possible the Solar Bears will not know their post-season fate until the very last game of the season, played on April 8.
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The last five regular season games will be played against two teams the Florida Everblades, who have already clinched the division, and the South Carolina Sting Rays, the team chasing the Solar Bears in the standings.