Bruins Hammer Hounds 9-2

The Estevan Bruins continued their recent dominance over the Notre Dame Hounds as they hammered them 9-2.

The Bruins did have a sluggish start with Ben Morgan opening up the scoring 4:01 into the opening period to give the Hounds an early lead.

The Bruins fortunate turned around thanks to the line of Matthew Dochylo, Josh Jelinski and Derek Whitehill, the trio's hard work paid off at the 13:05 when Dochylo scored his third of the season to tie the game at 1-1. 35 seconds later, the Bruins would take the lead with Derek Whitehill deflecting Austin Yano's point shot to give the Bruins the 2-1 lead. Before the end of the period Cole Olson scored his 5th of the season to give the Bruins a 3-1 edge after 20 minutes.

The Bruins took command in the second period scoring four times, Eric Baldwin who moved up to forward with an injury to Matt Brykaliuk buried a shot inside of the blueline to give the Bruins and gave the Bruins a 4-1 lead. Calder Neufeld then went to work as he scored a pair of goals back to back to extend the Bruins lead to 6-1, Taylor Reich added his 7th of the season to give the Bruins a 7-1 lead after 40 minutes.

In the third period, Neufeld completed the hat trick as he scored his 18th of the season to give the Bruins a 8-1 lead. Notre Dame would reply with Brandon Millin scoring to cut the lead at 8-2 and with 9 seconds Austin scored on a rebound after Ben Johnstone was denied on a breakaway to make the final 9-2.

Steven Glass had a solid game with the comfortable lead making 33 saves in the game. Despite scoring 9 goals, only one came on the extra advantage as the Bruins went 1 for 4.

After the game I spoke with Eric Baldwin who started the game on the blueline, but had to play forward with the injury to Brykaliuk. Baldwin also went into the dressing room after taking a puck in the ankle, but managed to come back and finish the game.

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Just to refresh your memory about Baldwin and the Terriers, last game Baldwin took a hit from Brenden Poncelet and suffered an injury to the head. There was no penalty on the play but Josh Jelinski would drop the mitts with Poncelet later in that game. I'm not expecting any kind of head hunting or anything along those lines, but I do expect Baldwin and a lot of other guys to use that as motivation tomorrow night.

Like I said with Baldwin, the Dochylo-Whitehill-Jelinski line really got the Bruins out of the funk in the first with a pair of goals. The three did a great job in the entire first period of getting the puck inside of the Hounds end and controlling the play which gave the Bruins a boost after a slow start in their end.

Calder Neufeld his on a roll as he scored his second hat trick in the last three games to give him 18 on the season. Neufeld is rebounding after slowed down by a groin injury and it looks like he's back to 100%.



It didn't go on the scoresheet, but somehow the ref missed Ryan Ostertag setting up Neufeld with his second goal of the night. Normally I wouldn't give that much notice to that, but it was really clear that Ostertag gave Neufeld the pass which he deflected in. Hopefully the league officials will change the scoring because it was an obvious assist for #8.

The Bruins are back at it tomorrow night with a home game against Yorkton, catch it on the webcast once again opening faceoff is 7:30.