The Kingston Frontenacs evened their Ontario Hockey League Eastern Conference semi-final at two games apiece with a 9-4 win over the Barrie Colts in Game 4 at Slush Puppie Place Thursday night.
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The home team soundly outplayed the Colts, outshooting Barrie 44-20.
The teams will meet again in Game 5 Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Barrie. They’re looking at a brutal turnaround with Game 6 on Sunday at 7 p.m. in Kingston. Game 7, if necessary, would be in Barrie on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
If the Frontenacs can put it together on the weekend, there’s every reason to think they can move on to the conference final.
“I thought we played well enough to win the first two game (in Barrie),” Kingston coach Troy Mann said. “But in our games at home we really played to our identity and played to our structure.”
Left winger Tuomas Uronen led the way for the Frontenacs with three goals and as assist and his centre Cedrick Guindon picked up a goal, his team-leading ninth of the post-season, and added an assist.
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Kingston captain Quinton Burns picked up a goal and two assists. His goal was a memorable and unlikely one for the defenceman — a breakaway coming out of the penalty box.
Though the score was lopsided at the finish, the first 20 minutes of action were tense. Barrie opening the scoring midway through the first period on a goal by Finnish import Emil Hemming, a first-round draft pick of the Dallas Stars. Kingston had dominated early play in the first three games, and this was the first time in the series that the Colts, the second seed in the conference, had opened the scoring.
After Uronen tied the score with three minutes before the first intermission, the Frontenacs settled into their game.
Burns’s breakaway put the Frontenacs ahead to stay and the Frontenacs played with next-level confidence the rest of the way.
Uronen scored his second of the night just 32 seconds later to make it 3-1 and the rout was on. Joey Willis scored less than two minutes after that and the Colts pulled their starting goalie Sam Hillebrandt and brought in back-up Ben Hrebik, who’d give up three goals in relief. For Barrie, Colts coach Marty Williamson is facing a tough decision with no good answers about who between them to go with in Game 5.
Uronen finished off his hat trick midway through the second to make it 5-1. Several dozen fans among the 5,399 in attendance chose at that point to leave their lids on the ice in tribute to Uronen, he came over to the team in an off-season trade with the Ottawa 67’s.
“I loved our first our 40 minutes, (in Game 4),” Mann said. “We pushed the pace. And I thought our second period was fantastic. And I thought Tuomas was fantastic tonight as well.”
The teams traded goals the rest of the way. For Barrie, Dalyn Wakely scored twice and Beau Jelsma added another, while Guindon, Gage Heyes, Cal Uens and Matthew Soto picked up goals, Uens’s and Soto’s into an empty Barrie net with the Colts pulling Hrebik in a much-too-late bid to make a game of it.
Kingston is undefeated in four starts at Slush Puppie Place in the post-season. The Frontenacs set a franchise record with 15 consecutive wins at home this year, a streak that ended with a loss to Brantford in their final regular-season game at home.
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