Hugg’s hat trick leads Kitchener to win over Owen Sound
Posted Feb 2, 2019 03:07:00 AM.
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Oh captain, my captain!
The Kitchener Rangers have themselves quite the dynamic duo.
Rickard Hugg and Riley Damiani continued to fill the scoresheet Friday night at The Aud, leading the way in a 6-1 win over the Owen Sound Attack.
The new captain, Hugg, nabbed a hat-trick and his sixth multi-point game in seven outings.
Damiani, not to be out done, registered his second straight four-point night, including the opening goal with just 33 seconds gone in the contest.
Isaac Langdon went top cheese with a wrister from the top of the slot on the power play with just over six minutes gone.
And to finish off the opening frame, it was Hugg tapping home a pass in front from Ryan Stepien with under two minutes to go.
The top line was at it again early in the second period.
With about three minutes gone, Damiani won a face off to the left of goaltender Andrew MacLean, passed it over to Hugg crashing the net and the captain snatched his second of the game.
Fast forward to six minutes gone in the third, and Damiani was stopped on a penalty shot opportunity, trying to squeeze a backhand between MacLean’s five-hole.
Off the following faceoff, the puck was won right to the point for Joe Garreffa.
He threw a wrist shot towards the goal and it beat MacLean through that same five-hole to make it 5-0 home side.
Hugg finished off the three-goal game — his second such effort of the season, the first was in Sarnia back on October 6 — on a shorthanded effort, finishing off a two-on-one with Damiani with under two minutes left in regulation.
Adam McMaster snapped Kitchener goalie Luke Richardson’s shutout bid with 1:55 left, but that rounded out the scoring.
Kitchener has now won three in a row, and will play in London Saturday night.
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