Posts About "OHL Playoffs"
2018 OHL Playoffs: Conference Finals Predictions
April 19th, 2018 We're down to four teams. The OHL playoffs are halfway done and, with four teams left, we have entered the Conference Finals portion of our program. In the Western Conference, the top-ranked Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds squeezed out a 4-3 series win over the high-octane Owen Sound Attack. Even Game 7 was close as the Hounds...
OHL Western Conference Playoffs: 2nd-Round Predictions
April 5th, 2018 As the calendar turns to April, the OHL turns to the second-round of the 2018 playoffs. The Road to Regina and the 2018 Mastercard Memorial Cup has already seen some impressive matchups as two first-round series in the Western Conference went to six games. The Sarnia Sting just got by the defending Memorial Cup champion Windsor...
Underdog Windsor Spitfires Face Game 6 Elimination
April 1st, 2018 Being the underdog is familiar territory for the Windsor Spitfires. Last season, they were the underdogs in the first round against the London Knights. They were also the underdogs in the 2017 Memorial Cup, which they won in a sweep. This season, they’ve been the underdogs since the trade deadline, as they sold off their...
Can Spitfires Tie Series with Sting?
March 29th, 2018 It's tough to call Game 4 "do-or-die" when the series is 2-1, but that might be what the Windsor Spitfires are facing Thurs night. After a heartbreaking loss in Game 3 Tuesday night, in which the Sarnia Sting scored three goals during a four-minute span in the third period, the Spitfires face a fork in the road. They could go left and...
Spitfires Split Opening Pair Against Sting
March 26th, 2018 On paper, this was supposed to be a piece of cake for the Sarnia Sting. On the ice, the Windsor Spitfires have other plans. The Spitfires and Sting started up their first-round 2018 OHL Playoffs series this weekend with a pair of games in Sarnia. The third-ranked Sting are built for power and longevity now, while the sixth-ranked...
OHL Western Conference Playoffs: First-Round Predictions
March 22nd, 2018 The Road to Regina has officially begun as the OHL playoffs start their opening round this week. Six months of traveling, hard work and dedication have come down to this. Now, 16 teams will compete for a chance to hoist the J. Ross Robertson Cup as champions and hit the Trans-Canada Highway en route to the Canadian Prairies and the 2018...
OHL's Conference Finals Will Deliver
April 20th, 2017 After a thrilling Game 7 overtime win on Tuesday, the Erie Otters moved on to join the Peterborough Petes, Mississauga Steelheads and Owen Sound Attack in the OHL’s conference finals. Thanks to two playoff rounds in which there were almost no upsets, the conference finals will see arguably the top two teams in each conference face...
Knights in Unusual, Unfriendly Territory as Underdogs
April 8th, 2017 Fresh off their thrilling Game 7 win against the Windsor Spitfires on Tuesday, the London Knights are back in action already, facing down the top-seeded Erie Otters in their Ontario Hockey League (OHL) Western Conference Semifinal. Beating the Otters will be a tall task, as my colleague Andrew Forbes points out. Led by captain Dylan...
OHL Playoff Preview: London Knights vs. Erie Otters
April 7th, 2017 If you thought the London Knights had a tough time in their opening round against the bigger Windsor Spitfires, their second round matchup isn’t going to be much easier. Last year’s Memorial Cup winners are set to take on the top team in their conference as they head to Erie to play Alex DeBrincat and the Otters. The Otters...
Fixing the OHL's First Round
April 6th, 2017 After a pair of tight Game 7 victories, the fourth-seeded Kingston Frontenacs and London Knights have advanced to the second round of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) playoffs. And because the other six higher-seeded teams all advanced, this marks the first time in the 19-year history of the 20-team OHL that the higher-seeded team won all...
Knights Facing Elimination in OHL Playoffs
March 31st, 2017 The Windsor Spitfires are on the brink of doing something no CHL team could do in 2015-16 – eliminating the London Knights from the postseason. Spitfires forward Graham Knott scored at 5:58 of overtime in Game 4 to give Windsor a 3-1 series lead over the Knights in the OHL’s Western Conference Quarter Final series. Knott took a...
Jeremiah Addison: Signed, Scored and Suspended
March 28th, 2017 Spirits were high for Windsor Spitfires’ forward Jeremiah Addison when the Ontario Hockey League playoffs started. The 20-year-old signed his first entry-level contract with the Montreal Canadiens on Friday ahead of Game 1 against the London Knights. Things were looking good. But for Addison - and his Spitfires teammates - that...
Knights' Lack of Discipline Proving Costly
March 26th, 2017 There were shades of their 2009 playoff run when the London Knights opened their defence of the OHL’s J. Ross Robertson Cup heading into overtime against the Windsor Spitfires. The Knights led the game one two separate occasions, but seemed to lose track of the puck in their own end during the second and third periods allowing the...
