Essex takes third straight game of the season from Dresden
ESSEX - It's only October 1st and the Essex 73's and the Dresden Kings have already played three games on the regular season, and Essex is now a perfect 3-0.
Tuesday night in Essex, the 73's defeated the Kings, 3-1, in front of an announced crowd of 479 at the Essex Centre Sports Complex.
Both goaltenders, Joseph Malinowski of the Kings, and Bennett Horrocks of the 73's, played strong games with the final shots being 41-33 in favour of the 73's.
Noah Matthieson led the way with a pair of goals while linemates Austin Guevremont had a goal and an assist, and Connor Hunt added three assists.
Blake Stevens scored the lone goal for Dresden at the midway point of the opening period on a shorthanded effort.
Essex now moves to 4-2-0-0 on the season while the Dresden Kings fall to 3-3-1-0.
73's come up short on the road, 3-1
BLENHEIM - Stefan Jacobs had a goal and an assist, and goaltender Jack Vancoille turned aside 35-of-36 shots as the hometown Blenheim Blades improved to 3-2 on the season with a 3-1 win over the Essex 73's Sunday night, in Blenheim.
The Blades scored twice in the first period and added an empty netter late in the third to down the 73's, who got one goal on the night off the stick of Luke Sherk.
Nelson DeKoning and Landon Copeland had the other Blenheim goals.
Brock Devlin made 18 stops in the loss, his first of the season.
The 73's will look to get back on track Tuesday nigth when they play host to the Dresden Kings. Puck drop is 7:00pm.
Undiscipline play leads to 7-1 Essex win over Wheatley
ESSEX - The Wheatley Sharks came to town Tuesday night and made things a little harder on themselves than they needed to, giving the Essex 73's an opportunity to work on its powerplay for much of the night.
In the end, the 73's would score on five of their eight powerplay chances en route to an easy 7-1 win in front of 562 at the Essex Centre Sports Complex.
Not only did the Sharks take eight minor penalties, they took them all consecutively.
Marcus levesque scored twice while single goals went to Luke Sherk, Jaxen Fortier-Smith, William Claridge, Austin Guevremont and Connor Hunt.
Austin Fraser had the lone goal for Whealtey with just :38 left in the game to spoil the shutout bid for Brock Devlin.
Essex outshot the visitors, 40-21, and now have a 3-1-0-0 record on the season while the Sharks fell to 2-2-0-0.
Essex takes another win on the road
DRESDEN - The Essex 73's travelled to Dresden Friday night and used third period goals by William Claridge and Joey Gaudet to down the Kings, 4-2.
Other 73's goal scorers were Luke Sherk and Gabe Barrette, while Dresden's goal scorers were Colton Graham and Blake Stevens.
Brock Devlin got his first junior start and turned aside 24-of-26 shots directed his way.
Essex returns home this Tuesday and will host the Wheatley Sharks.
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