(Windsor) By virtue of Windsor's 5-4 overtime victory against the Saginaw Spirit in Saginaw earlier tonight, the Windsor Spitfires have finished as the fourth seed in the OHL's Western Conference and will have home ice advantage as they take on the Western Conference's fifth ranked Erie Otters in round one of the 2011 OHL Playoffs. Spitfire fans are encouraged to wear red for each Spitfire home game as part of the Spits "Mission 9-10-11" theme for the 2011 OHL Playoffs.Entering tonight's game, Windsor and Erie were tied for fourth in the Western Conference standings at 82 points apiece. Windsor needed to earn at least one point in tonight's game to move out of the #5 seed and past Erie in the standings, and the Spitfires victory catapulted them to the Western Conference's #4 seed.
Windsor will host the first game of the best of seven Western Conference Quarter-Final series against Erie on Thursday, March 24th at 7:05 pm at the WFCU Centre. The full schedule for the first round series is as follows:
#4 Windsor Spitfires vs. #5 Erie Otters - OHL Western Conference Quarter-Final Series (Round One), 2011 OHL Playoffs
Game 1 Thursday, March 24th - Erie at Windsor, 7:05 pm
Game 2 Saturday, March 26th - Windsor at Erie, 7 pm
Game 3 Monday, March 28th - Erie at Windsor, 7:05 pm
Game 4 Wednesday, March 30th - Windsor at Erie, 7 pm
*Game 5 Friday, April 1st - Erie at Windsor, 7:05 pm
*Game 6 Sunday, April 3rd - Windsor at Erie, 4:30 pm
*Game 7 Tuesday, April 5th - Erie at Windsor, 7:05 pm
* If necessary
Catch the action as the Spitfires defend their back to back MasterCard Memorial Cup and Rogers OHL Championships! Tickets for games one and game three of the Spitfires first round series to be hosted at the WFCU Centre are available for sale to the general public and can be purchased in person at the TekSavvy.com Box Office (Gate 2 of the WFCU Centre), by contacting (519) 254-5000 or online at windsorspitfires.com.
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