Plymouth Continues to Roll in 7-1 Victory Over Belleville

Published on February 23, 2007 under Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Plymouth Whalers News Release


PLYMOUTH - The Plymouth Whalers used excellent special teams and depth en route to a 7-1 victory over the Belleville Bulls in an Ontario Hockey League game played Friday night at the Compuware Sports Arena.

The Whalers won their third straight game and remain in first place in the OHL West Division and second overall in the league with a record of 42-14-1-2, good for 87 points. Belleville is 34-19-0-5.

Plymouth's league-leading penalty killing unit (87.4 percent) went 11-for-11 in the game and four-for-four in the first period when the Bulls were at their most dangerous. The Whalers scored on their second power play of the game on a goal by Evan Brophey at 17:10 of the first period and took a 2-0 lead 26 seconds later on Jared Boll's goal on a deflection at 17:36.

In all, Brophey led the Whalers' attack with two goals and two assists as the game's first star. Brophey now has 30 goals on the season. Second star Chris Terry added a goal (17 on the season) and two assists, while third star Daniel Ryder also had a goal (35) and two assists and now has 300 points in his OHL career (122 goals and 178 assists). Jared Boll (24), Dan Collins (25) and Andrew Fournier (15) added single goals for Plymouth.

Bryan Cameron scored the lone Belleville goal, his 23rd of the season, in the second period.

The Whalers broke the game open with five goals in the second period to lead 7-1 after forty minutes on goals by Brophey (finishing sustained pressure in the Belleville zone at 2:35), Collins (hard shot the slot under the bar at 3:56), Fournier (tap of a rebound at 7:53), Terry (Boll wide right wing in the Belleville zone, to Brophey at the right hash mark to Terry on the left at 14:12) and Ryder (rebound at 15:31).

Plymouth outshot Belleville, 53-37. Whalers goaltender Michal Neuvirth stopped 36-of-37 Belleville shots to run his record to 22-8-1-1

Plymouth is home on Saturday against Oshawa. Start time for is 7:05 p.m. Tickets are available by calling the Compuware Sports Arena at (734) 453-8400 at by going to Ticketmaster at www.ticketmaster.com.

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