Greyhounds Walk Over Ottawa

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In their first home game of the New Year, the Greyhounds welcomed Ottawa to the Essar Centre.
 
The Greyhounds came out with quite a bit of pressure to start the first period off with a number of scoring chances in the first half of the period by Goetz and Salinitri.
 
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Rod Aubertin:
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Ottawa, however, would get on the scoreboard first with a power play goal by Salituro who put a rifle shot behind Raaymakers.  The Soo would bounce back with Moore turning on the jets to get behind the defence and tie the game at 1. 
 
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Rod Aubertin:
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With a number of Greyhounds buzzing around the net Senyshyn would give the Greyhounds the lead and at the end of the first period the score was 2-1 in favor of the Soo Greyhounds.
 
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Rod Aubertin:
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The second period seen the Greyhounds add 3 more goals to their tally with the first being from David Miller.  Ottawa and the Soo would trade good scoring chances but Jean Dupuy would weave around to get a scoring chance on the 67’s netminder Semiao and on the rebound Goetz would increase the Hounds lead by 3. 
 
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Rod Aubertin:
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Charley Graaskamp would add another goal before the end of the second period to close the period with Greyhounds leading the 67’s 5 to 1.
 
Kyle Jenkins would score a power play goal early in the third period but Ottawa would come back with a pair by Nathan Todd and Connor Graham in the middle of the period to pull within 3 goals. 
 
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Rod Aubertin:
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Gabe Guertler would score a power play goal late in the period to give the Soo Greyhounds a final score of 7 to 3 over the Ottawa 67s.
 
The Greyhounds will face off against the Oshawa Generals at 2:07 Sunday. 
 
The Generals are the league leaders with a 29-5-1-0 record for 59 points while the Greyhounds are third overall with a 27-8-0-2 record with 56 points and will prove to be a very interesting match-up.