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Paris Titans Hockey Report with George Le

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The Titans came back home last Sunday, having a playoff record, that at best, can be said was less than positive. They were down 2 games to 0 in the best of seven playoff series and have yet to get past the Woodstock goal line as they were shut out 5-0 and 4-0 in the first two games The reality of the situation is, if a team doesn’t score, there is no chance to win.

Sunday night’s game 3 at the Brant Sports Complex, the Paris Titans scored their first goal of the series early in the first period, off the stick of Timothy Mervyn’s stick. Assists went to Aiden Switzer and Tyler Crisostomo Forty-five seconds later, Owen Switzer scores off assists from Christian Campanelli and Paris Wolfpack call up Kohen Kirby. Kirby had quite the cheering section of family and teammates, who enthusiastically cheered him on. The Titans got themselves into a shorthanded situation due to a high sticking penalty, which didn’t bother Seth Kirou who scores a shorthanded goal to make the score Titans 3 Navy Vets 0. Woodstock still had a power play to finish and popped in a power play goal.

Kohen Kirby was called up from the Paris Wolfpack minor hockey association to play with the Paris Titans during a playoff game against the Woodstock Navy Vets last weekend. Kirby collected an assist in his Junior hockey debut.

The first period not complete, Paris continued their offensive push with goals by Brady McLaren, assisted by Ethan Bush, followed by an unassisted goal by Christian Campanelli and his second point of the evening. At the end of the first period the Titans had scored 5 goals and Woodstock 1. The Titans goal production in one period was the best in their short history and so tied for the most goals in one game.

The second period started with an early goal by Woodstock to make the score 5-2, with the Titans having two unsuccessful power plays to add to the score. At the end of the period. a Paris player earns a slashing penalty to be served at the beginning of the third period. The referees are responsible to make sure that the players leave the ice in an orderly manner, by signaling to the bench when to stay and go from the bench to the exit off the rink…… like a “Simon Says” game. Somehow a Paris player got caught in a mixed message and skated off towards the exit door and then ordered back to the bench. I personally don’t like stupid penalties, that can with discretion, can be ignored by the referee.

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