Whalers Depth The Difference In 8-0 Win Over Saginaw
December 15, 2009 - Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Plymouth Whalers News Release
One mark of a good team is to receive positive contributions from everyone and find a way to win. The Plymouth Whalers are proof in an 8-0 victory over the Saginaw Spirit in an Ontario Hockey League game played Saturday night before 2,216 at Compuware Arena.
The Whalers improve to 19-14-0-1, good for 39 points and a share of fourth place in the tight Western Conference race. Saginaw is now 16-13-3-0.
Plymouth played the game without center Tyler Seguin (third in the OHL scoring race with 26 goals and 25 assists for 51 points in 29 games) and goaltender Matt Hackett (2.57 goals against average and.926 save percentage), who are both away at Canada's National Junior selection camp in Regina, SK. But the Whalers depth proved to be too much for Saginaw as Plymouth led, 4-0 after one period and 5-0 after forty minutes of play.
With Hackett away, Whalers rookie goaltender Scott Wedgewood stopped 35 Saginaw shots en route to his first OHL shutout. Wedgewood - who has won in shootouts on the road in Windsor and Sudbury this season - lowered his goals against average to 3.51 and raised his save percentage to.909.
Offensively, Plymouth captain AJ Jenks and rookie Garrett Meurs led the Whalers attack with a goal and three assists apiece. Jamie Devane scored twice (second and third), while Tyler J. Brown (fourth), Ryan Hayes (fifth), Michal Jordan (eighth and fifth in five straight games) and Robbie Czarnik (third) all scored single goals for the Whalers.
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