With third in the West still a possibility albeit slim, the Wings host playoff-aspirants- the Capitals of Brampton at the Dave Monday night in one of four on the card. Hamilton trails the third-place Raiders by six in the West but have five games remaining to Georgetown's three. Injuries might still loom large for the home side so it will need a strong team effort to setback the Caps.
Although James Woodcroft has 40 goals in his last season, 15 in 19 games as a Capital the true success stories this season for Brampton have been Josh Ocampo, 27 goals and 62 points and Adam Scuglia with 19 goals and 50 points. Add in Petr Ranieri, 20 points in 22 games since coming from Milton with Woodcroft and Blake Lovell 39 points in as many games, Chase Nieuwendyk's 44 points and Chad Bennett's 38 plus Luke Laidlaw's 14 goals and you have to wonder why the Caps are not doing better than they are. The answer might seem to be in this statistic- goals scored 183, goals conceded 211..that's almost five a game against.
The Capitals are in a dogfight with Orangeville and Aurora for the last two playoff spaces in the North/West, they trail the Tigers by just two, same number of games played, and the Flyers by five with two in hand so the matchup with the Red Wings is a big one for them. Their chances do not look too bad on paper as they play Milton twice, and Buffalo and Mississauga once. All three of these clubs are out of the playoff picture. Tough-guy Josh Ruys is eligible to suit up following a seven-game suspension.
The Red Wings will hope to have some of their sidelined players back for this one. Zach Hyman is now just three short of the forty goal mark while Matt Carey needs two to reach 25 and Christian Powers two to attain 35. Andrew Radjenovic's next will be his twentieth on the season. The Red Wings have had solid contributors on the blueline with three players with thirty points or more..Conor McLoughlin had nine goals and 35 points, Dominik Crnogorac, who scored the late overtime winner in Milton, has 33 points and Jonathan Gibson, probably the most improved defender over the season, has six goals and 30 points.
Anthony Kimlin and Jake Patterson represent two strong goalies in a position which becomes even more important from here on.
Should be a good 'un. Recently the puck has been dropping right at 7.30 so don't be late!
In the other contests Kingston will face a tough battle in Cobourg in an Eastern matchup while Vaughan hopes to extend its lead in the South at the expense of Upper Canada and the Burlington Cougars, champs of the West, journey to Buffalo.
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wy is hamilton getting so ow goals against brampton i mean 7-3 come on thats a little low.
hamilton is better then that .
i predict hamilton to win 6-5 and move brampton one step closer to elmination. and big win by burlington really helped the wings out now were 6 back wit 5 games left hamilton can still take 3rd
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why is hamilton getting so low goals i mean come on hamilton is better then that. i see hamilton actually beating brampton 6-5 to push brampton to brink of elimination.
big win by burlington that will help hamilton alot now teyre 6 points behind with 5 games left 4 at ome ad one on the road tey can still end up in 3rd.
this is a better post then the last one
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jonathan gibson has been a very nice addition to the team, i think probally the best dman in his own end. DC has also been a good trade on the back end. CM has played better this year then last but would like to see his game improve in his own backend. the offence is still the strength of this team by far. goaltending is still an unknown. noticed that fielding is not seeing the ice in markham like he did in hamilton. don't know what is going on there.
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Gibson and McLoughlin have been Hamilton's best D-Men ALL SEASON...Rarely do they turn it over, or get caught..Both also talk a lot to help their mates with positions, man on, etc...Connor has really upped his game since last year, and has deserved all the playing time he's received thus far.
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There are few games left, so it will look good on his Resume that he led the League in scoring in his last year. might as go all the way in the promotion.
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