By Chris Lucas
In Play Magazine
The Windsor Spitfires force a game six in Kitchener as they defeated the Rangers 3-0 tonight.
Taylor Hall scored the first one in this game as it would eventually go to be the game winner.
Adam Henrique added two goals in the second and third periods to send Windsor and Kitchener to a game 6.
Windsor played an excellent game tonight. They had stellar goal tending, a good penalty kill, they had the offense they needed and they threw their weight around. If Windsor plays like this in the next game, they are going to make it hard for the Rangers to finish off Windsor.
Head Coach of the Kitchener Rangers Steve Spott explains to In Play! how he wasn't too impressed with his teams performance tonight.
“Early in the game we set the tone with Gabriel's big hit. I was feeling pretty good at that point. We were a minute and a half away from a zero zero tie after the first and unfortunately gave them a late goal in the first period which i think sparked them a little bit. I didn't think we were very sharp tonight. Fortunately when you get to this time of year, you have to have a killer instinct and other than the gentleman to my right (Dan Kelly), who I thought was the best player for both teams. We didn't have enough guys step up and play with passion to be a good hockey club.”
Tonight's In Play Magazine player of the game goes to Philipp Grubauer for his impressive performance in between the pipes tonight. Making 28 saves and getting the shut-out but a lot of those shots were tough saves.
Grubauer tells In Play! his thoughts on his performance tonight.
“It was a pretty good game. I didn't care about the shut-out I'm just glad we won.”
Tomorrow night the Spits travel to Kitchener for game six. The puck will drop at 7:30 p.m.
