Frustration got the best of the Windsor Spitfires.

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Jim Parker  •  Windsor Star

Printed Mar 03, 2024  •  Final up to date 5 hours in the past  •  4 minute learn

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It was solely a matter of time earlier than frustration acquired the perfect of the Windsor Spitfires.

Because the prospects of a playoff spot proceed to dwindle every recreation, the frustration for the Spitfires continues to construct.

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Sunday’s 6-1 loss to the Mississauga Steelheads earlier than a crowd of 4,994 on the WFCU Centres was Windsor fourth-straight defeat. Coupled with back-to-back loss to Flint, which holds down the ultimate playoff spot. As hopes dwindle with the Spitfires sitting 13-points again of Flint with 9 video games left within the season, frustration bubbled over within the third interval of Sunday’s recreation

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“You’d be mendacity should you thought there wasn’t a bit little bit of that (frustration),” Spitfires’ interim head coach Casey Torres mentioned. “I believe we felt a bit bit sorry for ourselves as a result of I believe in Flint, for a big portion of each these two video games, I assumed we outplayed them and you then look and you end up in a recreation or down and generally that’s laborious to grasp while you assume you’re outplaying (them) otherwise you assume you’re taking part in nicely and so they’re discovering methods to get targets.”

After Spitfires’ overage defenceman Djibril Toure and Mississauga’s Gabriel Chiarot exited the penalty field after serving coincidental roughing minors, the 2 locked up in a bout. Earlier than that was settled, Windsor defenceman Josef Eichler acquired pulled right into a battle with Mississauga’s Luke Dragusica, which may value each gamers a two-game suspension for a second battle throughout the identical stoppage of play. In the meantime, defenceman Anthony Cristoforo ended up with a roughing minor together with Mississauga’s Angus MacDonell, who was extra the rougher than the roughee.

“We’re extremely aggressive, it’s form of pure for everybody to form of be a bit aggressive and present some frustration like that,” Cristoforo mentioned.

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“It’s a recreation, for us, we want we may win, however sticking up for one another and being within the battle is what we’re on the lookout for.”

However this recreation acquired away from the Spitfires early with the Steelheads leaping to a 2-0 lead after 20 minutes on targets by Luke Misa and MacGregor Richmond.

“First interval, we didn’t appear to have legs,” Torres mentioned.

Windsor coughed up the puck in entrance of its personal internet and Adam Zidlicky pushed Mississauga’s result in 3-0 lower than three minutes into the second interval.

A.J. Spellacy scored on a two-man energy play to get Windsor on the board, however, as has occurred so typically this season, the membership gave up a aim within the dying seconds of the interval. 

“It’s been a difficulty, to be trustworthy, all yr the place we’ve targets within the first minute or targets within the final minute,” Cristoforo mentioned. “It’s one thing we’ve to tighten up.”

Zidlicky went in alone to make it 4-1 for Mississauga with eight seconds left within the interval.

“We got here again, fought laborious after which we let it slip away on the finish of the second interval,” Spellacy mentioned. “That’s on us gamers. We’ve acquired to handle the sport higher on the finish. We will’t hand over targets like that on the finish.”

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The Spitfires additionally misplaced rookie Cole Davis within the interval as he went off holding his left shoulder after crashing into the boards after being tripped by Mississauga’s Finn Harding.

“It doesn’t look good, however we’ll see what doc says after (Monday),” Torres mentioned of Davis, who’s fifth in OHL rooking scoring with 20 targets and 39 factors in 58 video games.

Mississauga’s Porter Martone, with a power-play after the road scuffle, and Jack Van Volsen, with 10 seconds to performs, closed the scoring within the third interval. 

“We need to maintain combating after that aim, and we’re going to do all the pieces to attempt to win, however when it goes from 3-1 to 4-1it’s an enormous leap going into the third interval,” Spellacy mentioned. “We had momentum and it acquired taken away once they acquired that fourth aim.”

Issues don’t get any simpler for the Spitfires, who start a three-game street journey on Thursday in North Bay with a Friday match in Sudbury and a Saturday match towards Sault Ste. Marie.

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Sport Abstract

Sunday Consequence

Steelheads 6 Spitfires 1

Mississauga 2 2 2 – 6

Windsor 0 1 0 – 1

First interval: 1. Mississauga, Mia 24 (Fibigr, Zidlicky) 5:46, 2. Mississauga, MacGregor 2 (Chiarot, Sharpe) 11:41. Penalties: MacDonell M (roughing) 7:10, Fibigr M (tripping) 18:47, Davis W (holding) 19:42.

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Second interval: 3. Mississauga, Zidlicky 7 (unassisted) 2:42, 4. Windsor, Spellacy 16 (Abraham, Morneau) 9:02 (pp), 5. Mississauga, Zidlicky 8 (Sharpe) 19:52. Penalties: Dragusica M (tripping) 3:26, Leskovar M (holding) 7:25, Harding M (tripping) 8:02, Walton W (holding) 12:05, Harding M (tripping) 14:42.

Third interval: 6. Mississauga, Martone 32 (Zidlicky, Harding) 11:37 (pp), 7. Mississauga, Van Volsen 17 (unassisted) 19:50. Penalties: Toure W (roughing) 3:46, Chiarot M (roughing), Toure W (roughing) 8:00, Chiarot M (combating), Dragusica M (combating, recreation misconduct), MacDonell M (roughing), Toure W (slashing, combating, misconduct), Eichler W (combating, recreation misconduct), Cristoforo W (roughing) 10:05, Nesbitt W (excessive sticking) 19:53. 

Sport stats – SOG – Mississauga 14 7 14 – 35 Windsor 12 10 9 – 31 Aim (shots-saves) – Mississauga: Ivankovic (W,10-4-4-0) (31-30). Windsor: Donoso (L,13-18-2-1) (35-29). Energy play (goals-chances) – Mississauga 1-5. Windsor 1-6. Referees: Chad Ingalls (12) and Joe Monette (25). Linesmen: Kurtis Pare (70) and Geoff Rutherford (62). Att.: 4,994 on the WFCU Centre.

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