Slain Stingers

Stingers give up 4 third-period goals in 5-2 loss to Waterloo Warriors

SportsDavid S. Landsman — Published November 11, 2013

The Stingers tried to avenge the loss from the previous night, but instead wound up squandering their lead and coming up short 5-2.

The penalty kill seemed strong to start the game, killing off three straight minors before left winger Taylor Lambke got his second goal in as many days past Warrior goaltender Justin Leclerc.

A big melee erupted at the beginning of the second period, as Stinger blueliner Sean Blunden took a big hit from Warrior forward Josh Woolley, who was assessed a 10-minute misconduct on the play.

Midway through the period, Waterloo forward Justin Larson tied the game with his first of two that afternoon.

Third-year Marketing student Kyle Armstrong gave Concordia the lead just over two minutes into the third, after he was fed the puck by Ben Dubois.

“I thought we dominated a solid 40-43 minutes of good solid hockey,” said Figsby. “We only allowed five even strength shots. We just played a disappointing third period.”

Waterloo re-tied the game two minutes later and didn’t look back.

From then on, the game was all about the Warriors. Already with a two point afternoon, forward Chris Chappell then added three more, scoring two and assisting on Larson’s second.

A late two-man advantage didn’t seem to create many opportunities for Concordia offense, and the Stingers were left shaking their heads and skating off to the dressing room dropping three games straight.

“It was a really tough weekend, definitely not the way we wanted it to turn out,” said Stingers captain George Lovatsis. “We need to tighten up on the penalty killing, get more shots on the powerplay and bounce back. We have to make the simple plays work, we have to bring our A-game, and tonight we didn’t bring it.”