Music: {allcanada} SHUGG SCORES ONLY GOAL OF SHOOTOUT AS MAJORS DOWN BATTALION

Monday, October 11, 2010

{allcanada} SHUGG SCORES ONLY GOAL OF SHOOTOUT AS MAJORS DOWN BATTALION

Justin Shugg buried a chance early, and then another one very late for the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors on Monday afternoon.

Shugg opened the scoring in the first and then scored the only goal of a shootout as Mississauga edged the Brampton Battalion 5-4 in Ontario Hockey League play.

Shugg's goal 58 seconds into the game set the tone as the Majors scored in the opening minute in each of the three periods.

The Battalion took a 2-1 lead into the first intermission on Barclay Goodrow's first goal of the afternoon and a Stephon Thorne power-play marker.

Rob Flick tied the game 14 seconds into the middle frame and Jordan Mayer put the Majors ahead at 4:58 courtesy the man advantage.

Goodrow's second goal of the game at 7:58 tied the game 3-3.

Elsewhere in the OHL it was: Kitchener 4, Erie 3 (OT); Ottawa 4, Oshawa 3; and Windsor 5, Sarnia 3.

At Brampton, Ont., Ian Watters gave the Battalion a 4-3 lead at 9:14 of the second, a lead they held until 48 seconds into the third period, when Casey Cizikas tied the game 4-4.

J.P. Anderson stopped 28 of 32 shots for Mississauga and Jacob Riley steered aside 29 of the 33 shots sent his way.

Rangers 4, Otters 3 (OT)

At Kitchener, Ont., Gabriel Landeskog's power-play goal at 3:54 of overtime propelled the Rangers past Erie.

Erie's Greg McKegg's second of the game tied the score 3-3 with 19 seconds left in regulation to force extra time.

Ryan Murphy and Matthew Tipoff had a goal and assist each for Kitchener (6-1-0), while Tobias Rieder also scored. Jamie Doornbosch and Matia Marcantuoni each had two assists.

Adam Pelech, who took the interference penalty in overtime that led to the winner, had the other goal for the Otters (3-4-1). Shawn Szydlowski added two assists.

67's 4, Generals 3

At Oshawa, Ont., Cody Lindsay and Ryan Martindale had a goal and an assist each as Ottawa dealt the Generals their first regulation loss of the season.

Tyler Toffoli and Thomas Nesbitt scored the first two goals for the 67's (4-2-0), who jumped out to a 3-0 lead through one period.

Alain Berger scored twice in a span of 3:28 in the second period for the Generals (4-1-0), narrowing the gap to 4-3 before a scoreless third period.

Christian Thomas assisted on all three Oshawa goals, including one from Boone Jenner.

Spitfires 5, Sting 3

At Windsor, Ont., Zack Kassian scored a goal and added three assists to lead the Spitfires over Sarnia.

The offensive outburst by Kassian was his second four-point game in four games since the 2009 first round pick of the Buffalo Sabres returned from their training camp last weekend.

Eric Locke, with the first goal of his OHL career, and Ryan Ellis staked Windsor a two-goal lead before Sania's Alex Galchenyuk, the first player selected in last summer's OHL draft, scored his sixth goal of the season before the end of the first period.

Windsor's Zack MacQueen and Sarnia's Nick Latta exchanged second period goals before the Spitfires' Tom Kuhnackl and Kasian and the Sting's Joe Rogalski scored in the game's final frame.