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Six in a row for Hawks

Six in a row for Hawks   The Brantford Golden Eagles probably still don’t know what hit them. Well, the number of that train is six, because that’s what the Cambridge Winter Hawks winning streak is at after dumping the Golden Eagles 5-3 on Sunday during Pink at the Rink at the Galt Arena Gardens. Cambridge completed a three-game sweep on the weekend, beating Listowel 3-2 in overtime Friday and Owen Sound 7-0 on Saturday. The Winter Hawks wore pink jerseys to raise money and awareness for breast cancer on Sunday, but they had Brantford seeing red after coming back from being down 3-0 in the first with five unanswered goals. It was sweet revenge for the Winter Hawks, who coughed up a 2-0 third period lead to Brantford on Oct. 2, before losing 3-2. That seems like years ago now. “We’re on a little bit of a high now,” said Winter Hawks head coach Peter Crosby, who has seen his team start to look like contenders. “We’ve won six games and in that six-game stretch there’s been some big wins and this is a big win tonight. I go back to what I said before, it’s a 51-game season. There’s going to be some bumps along the way and there’s going to be some obstacles and it’s how well we respond to that.” Crosby admitted that Sunday was an example of that. As the Winter Hawks had a jittery first period, coupled by a rare of night by Lucas Machalski, to go down 3-0 after 20 minutes. “We didn’t have our best effort in the first period tonight,” said. “The guys answered the bell and came back in the second period, and finished them off in the third. “Every single kid in that dressing room is a character guy.” After Mike Riley, Jeff Swift and Ryan Blunt chased Machalski from the game, the Winter Hawks got some solid work from Brendan Gorecki, who extended his shutout streak to 105 minutes, 75 seconds. The comeback started just 47 seconds into the second period on a power play, when Gratton went top corner on a rebound past a diving Bryce O’Hagan. Three minutes later on another power play, Anthony Guido snuck in from the point to take a Tyler Snyder pass at the far side of the crease and bang it past O’Hagan. The Winter Hawks caught a break when Jeff Swift looked to get the puck in the net before it was pushed off by Michael Christou, but the goal was disallowed and there was no penalty on the play. That left the door open for Christian Barnard, who tied the game on a shorthanded breakaway. Christou got the eventual winner at 6:19 of the third, the Winter Hawks fourth straight power-play goal, when a clearing pass bounced off the side of his helmet and he beat the Brantford defence before snapping a shot over O’Hagan’s blocker. After having trouble solving O’Hagan in their last meeting, the Winter Hawks seemed to have his number on Sunday. “I think I can speak for all the boys, I think he looked like a block of Swiss cheese in that net. I’m not going to lie,” Christou said after the game. “But we had a slow start and then in the second and third period we battled back hard, and we deserved that win. Our team beat their talent.” Christou added that the team is starting to play the way they’re capable of. “I think we’re actually believing in the system now and we’re just going, and we’re having fun doing it. “It seems like we’re getting the job done. We’re not a finesse team so we just go out and do what we do night in and night out, and we’ve put together a pretty good streak now. You don’t get lucky winning six in a row.” Scot Mitchell finished off the scoring, taking a pretty drop pass from Gratton before sliding through the skates of O’Hagan. Against Listowel, Ryan Clarke, Christou and Guido scored for the Winter Hawks. Against Owen Sound, Andrew Coupland had two goals, while Clarke, Gratton, Christou, Snyder and Taylor Doering had one each. The Winter Hawks are in Stratford Friday at 7:30 p.m., before hosting Waterloo on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Galt Arena Gardens. Courtesy of the Bill Doucet at the Cambridge Times. See the original article here.

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