QMJHL
Acadie-Bathurst Titan 2 @ Moncton Wildcats 6
D Mark Barberio [11], MCT: 1-0-1, +3, 0 PIM, 1 SOG
Season Totals: 38 GP, 7-25-32, +18, 36 PIM
Barberio (pictured) returned from a one-game suspension for spearing to score his seventh of the year. The goal was scored while shorthanded.
OHL
Sudbury Wolves 0 @ Belleville Bulls 7
W Matias Sointu [12], SBY: Did not play.
Season Totals: 31 GP, 5-9-14, E, 12 PIM
With Sudbury: 10 GP, 2-2-4, -5, 6 PIM
With Ottawa: 21 GP, 3-7-10, +5, 6 PIM
C Richard Panik [13], BEL: 1-1-2, +1, 0 PIM
Season Totals: 36 GP, 11-10-21, +12, 23 PIM
With Bulls: 3 GP, 2-1-3, -3, 4 PIM
With Windsor: 33 GP, 9-9-18, +15, 19 PIM
RW Kyle DeCoste [14], BEL: 0-0-0, E, 0 PIM
Season Totals: 38 GP, 13-8-21, -4, 37 PIM
With Bulls: 25 GP, 11-7-18, -2, 17 PIM
With SSM: 13 GP, 2-1-3, -2, 20 PIM
Sointu has not joined the Wolves since playing for Finland at the World Junior Championships (WJC). Panik scored the game’s final goal. Including the WJC’s, he’s got 10 goals in his last 12 games. Meanwhile, DeCoste hasn’t scored in three games. Anthony Peters (undrafted) got the shutout for Belleville in his Bulls debut. He was acquired this week from Saginaw.
Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors 2 @ Barrie Colts 3 (OT)
LW/C Alex Hutchings [15], BAR: 0-0-0, E, 0 PIM
Season Totals: 40 GP, 26-23-49, +27, 34 PIM
Hutchings failed to register a point in consecutive games for just the fourth time this year. Alex Pietrangelo has yet to join the Colts.
WHL
Medicine Hat Tigers 5 @ Regina Pats 6 (SO)
RW Carter Ashton [16], REG: 1-1-2, +2, 0 PIM, *Third Star*
Season Totals: 39 GP, 17-18-34, -10, 71 PIM
With Regina: 11 GP, 4-5-9, -2, 19 PIM
With Lethbridge: 28 GP, 13-13-26, -8, 52 PIM
Regina won the shootout 3-2. Ashton, who also scored in the shootout, has two goals in his last three games. The Pats remain 10th in the Eastern Conference, seven points behind 8th-place Swift Current pending Saturday’s results.