OHL Windsor Spitfires

The Kass and Pass Show

Published on December 5, 2010 under Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Windsor Spitfires News Release


When Zack Kassian was traded to Windsor from Peterborough last season, he went on to play a key role in helping the team to its second straight Memorial Cup title.

And tonight, in a return visit to face his former team, he reminded Petes fans what they're missing.

Kassian had two goals and two assists, as the Spits thumped the Petes for the second time in six days, in a 7-1 win.

Troy Passingham was outstanding for Windsor (16-11-0-1), making 37 saves to win his seventh game in nine decisions.

QUIET FIRST

Passingham was the story of the opening period, making 11 stops - several of them eye-poppers, including a save-of-the-year candidate on a lunging effort to rob Lino Martschini.

The veteran goaltender kept the game scoreless, as the Spits weren't sharp in the opening 20 minutes.

QUICK STRIKE KASS

With the game still 0-0, late in the second, it was Kassian that got the Spits going with a pair of quick goals.

Barreling down the right wing, on a 2-on-1 rush with Eric Locke, Kassian beat Bryce O'Hagan with a quick, hard shot to the low glove side to make it 1-0 Windsor.

During his next shift, Kassian struck again on a magnificent play to make it 2-0. The big winger picked up a loose puck in his own zone and blew through the entire Peterborough team, before racing in on the left wing and shovelling home his 14th of the season.

The Spits took their two-goal lead to the third.

ANOTHER BIG FINISH

Alan Quine briefly cut the lead to 2-1, with his 12th of the season, just 53 seconds into the third period.

But it was all Windsor from there, as the Spits scored five times in a 15-minute span.

And again, Kassian was the catalyst.

On the power play, number-19 found a streaking Alexander Khokhlachev for a tip-in goal to make it 3-1 Windsor, at 4:39. About a minute later, and still on the power play, Kassian fed Zack MacQueen, who found Nick Ebert cross-crease to make it 4-1.

Stephen Johnston put the game out of reach at the 6:53 mark, scoring his sixth of the year off a nifty give-and-go between Ryan Ellis and Eric Locke.

Michael MacIntyre and Brendan McCann added late goals to round out the scoring.

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