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Game Preview: Guelph Storm vs Saginaw Spirit

February 18, 2022 - Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
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The Storm are back at home as the Saginaw Spirit come to the Sleeman Centre. The puck drops at 7:30pm.

The Storm in their last 5 games are 2-3 with their most recent game being a 4-2 loss to London. With a current record of 21-16-3-1, the Storm stay in 5th overall in the conference standings. The last time these two teams met was a week ago where the Storm came out with a 7-3 win in Saginaw. The season series has the Storm up 3-0-0-0, with 2 wins coming in Saginaw and 1 coming in Guelph.

Saginaw come into tonight's game with their last game played being against the Storm. On the wrong side of the score in a 7-3 loss last week has the Spirits record at 16-26-1-0. They are in 10th place in the conference standings. In their last 5 games Saginaw are 1-4 and will be looking to break a 3-game losing streak tonight.

HEAD TO HEAD

2021-22 Regular Season SAG 0-3-0-0 GUE 3-0-0-0

2019-20 Regular Season SAG 1-2-0-1 GUE 3-0-1-0

Last Five Years SAG 6-10-2-1 GUE 13-4-1-1

Last Five Years At Saginaw Spirit SAG 3-5-1-1 GUE 7-1-1-1

Last Five Years At Guelph Storm SAG 3-5-1-0 GUE 6-3-0-0

TOP SCORERS

LAST 5 GAMES

MATCH UP

Saginaw SpiritGuelph Storm

Season Record 16-26-1-0 21-16-3-1

Last 10 Games 2-8-0-0 3-6-1-0

Streak 0-3-0-0 0-1-0-0

Last Game 7-3 L vs Guelph (2022-02-12) Final 4-2 L @ London (2022-02-16) Final

Home Record 6-15-0-0 9-7-2-1

Away Record 10-11-1-0 12-9-1-0

Goals For 136 153

Goals Against 177 141

Power Plays 21/155 (13.55%) 35/161 (21.74%)

Power Plays - Home 6/85 (7.06%) 14/72 (19.44%)

Power Plays - Away 15/70 (21.43%) 21/89 (23.6%)

Penalty Killing 26/172 (84.88%) 26/151 (82.78%)

Penalty Killing - Home 10/76 (86.84%) 10/70 (85.71%)

Penalty Killing - Away 16/96 (83.33%) 16/81 (80.25%)

Leading Rookie Sapovaliv (11-20-31) Poitras (14-16-30)

Most Penalty Minutes Dalton Duhart Matthew Poitras

Team PIM/GM 11.4/43 9.7/41

Players to Watch:

Guelph Storm - Michael Buchinger

Buchinger has impressed in the first 41 games of his OHL career and was recently just named to the Top Prospects Game. In his 41 games he has scored 2 goals and assisted on 23 for a total of 25 points. He has the share of the lead in assists on the team.

Saginaw Spirit - Josh Bloom

Leading the team in both goals and points has Bloom as a key piece to the Spirits offence. In 43 games played Bloom has scored 20 goals and tallied 19 assists for a total of 39 points. Watch out for him tonight as they come to Guelph to take on the Storm.

Upcoming Games:

The Storm are back at home on Monday for the Family day game against the Owen Sound Attack. The puck drops at 2:00pm.


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