The Sarnia Sting were drubbed 9-3 by the Saginaw Spirit Friday night before a crowd of 2,446 at Progressive Auto Sales Arena.
D.J. Busdecker and Blade Jenkins opened the scoring for the Spirit in the first period before Calvin Martin made it 2-1 at the 19:14 mark.
Calvin Martin of the Sarnia Sting (Photo courtesy of Metcalfe Photography)
Then Saginaw scored four unanswered goals in the second period off the sticks of Damien Giroux, Cole Coskey, Giroux again and Ilya Solovyov.
In the third Colton Kammerer and Anthony Tabak scored for the Sting while Nicholas Porco, Mitchell Smith and Mason Millman replied for the Spirit.
Sarnia's Ethan Langevin stopped 24 of 33 shots. Tristan Lennox turned aside 20 shots for Saginaw.
The Spirit were three for five on the power play..
The Sting's Tabak said they have to do better.
"There's a lot of young guys on this team so it's not the result we want," said Tabak. "They're new to this league, it's faster paced. Some of the vets, too, have got to execute on specialty teams, power play and penalty kill, just bear down all around."
Sarnia was scoreless on three power play chances.
Tabak said the team has to learn to play smart.
"Well I think you saw it tonight. A lot of the guys are all working hard but it's about working smart, too. It's not all about getting in there with your head down and just pile driving everyone. It's about layering and picking up loose pucks as well."
Sarnia visits Flint Sunday afternoon starting at 1:40 on 103.9 FM - 1070 AM CHOK.
