The Brantford Bulldogs scored a knockout in Round 1 of its Rivalry Week Series against the Brampton Steelheads.<\/p>\n
Playing on the road on Friday, the Bulldogs (10-2-0-1) battered Brampton (1-8-1-1) 8-2. Game 2 goes Saturday at the TD Civic Centre at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
In a game featuring the Eastern Conference\u2019s best team against its bottom team, Brantford\u2019s Kaden McGregor and Jason Musa put on a show with the former scoring four goals and the latter notching four assists.<\/p>\n
Abe Barnett (1G, 1A), Camden McCuaig (2A) and David Buchman (2A) got a pair of points each while Sam Roberts, Cullen McCrate and Owen DeGraff rounded out the scoring.<\/p>\n
George Komadoski, Jeremy Freeman, Xavier Lieb, Adam Nemec, Jack Good, Matthew Hlacar and Philip Govedaris got an assist each.<\/p>\n
Goaltender Chase Petrova made 31 saves to earn the win.<\/p>\n
Geno Carcone and MacGregor Richmond scored for Brampton. Oskari Ahmajabi allowed six goals in net for the Steelheads with Neilan Johnson giving up the other two.<\/p>\n
Jason Musa left Friday\u2019s game after taking a big hit. His status for Saturday was unknown.<\/p>\n
Aiden Kelly, Brayden Lappalainen and Jet Kwajah were all out of the lineup with illness. They are questionable for Saturday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
Nathan Hauad remains week to week with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n
DOG BITES . . . Brantford made another trade on Friday, sending Jack Torr to the Erie Otters for second-round (North Bay, 2028) and fourth-round (Erie, 2030) OHL Priority Selections. Torr, a forward, had four goals and three assists in seven games this season . . . The Bulldogs moved up one spot in the weekly OHL Power Rankings, now sitting fifth despite being tied with Sault Ste. Marie for the league\u2019s best record . . . For the second time this season, Vilmer Salen-Forsberg was named the OHL\u2019s goalie of the week. In two games, he was 2-0 with a 1.00 goals against average, .971 save percentage and one shutout . . . The Canadian Hockey League announced this week that the QMJHL\u2019s Quebec Remparts will host the 2028 Memorial Cup. The 2027 Memorial Cup is being hosted by the Guelph Storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brantford Bulldogs scored a knockout in Round 1 of its Rivalry Week Series against the Brampton Steelheads.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[323278,51759,316537,49,48,316538,307753,158032],"class_list":["post-944245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-323278","tag-brampton","tag-brantford-expositor","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-category-brantford-bulldogs","tag-category-hockey","tag-category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}