ACH Week 1 Recap
The puck dropped on the 2022-23 Allan Cup Hockey league season last week with all four teams in action over the three games that were played.
Opening up the campaign on Thursday night was the Wentworth Gryphins who hosted the reigning ACH champion Dundas Real McCoys at the Harry Howell Arena in Flamborough.
The Gryphins scored their first goal in franchise history just 3:52 into the opening period thanks to Kyle Ventura before Dundas’ Rob Hisey evened the score at one just under eight minutes later. Kevin Harvey would give Wentworth the lead with the only goal of the second frame.
Scoring picked up in the third as the Real McCoys got goals from Justin DaSilva and Brad Bonello in the first 5:37 of the period to take the lead. However, in a 3:27 span at the midway point of the period the Gryphins would get goals from Tyler Vankleef, Anthony Pinelli and Harvey to secure their first ever victory, defeating the McCoys 5-3.
For Dundas, DaSilva was the only player to pick up a pair of points, adding an assist along with his goal. On the other side of the ice Deron Cousens led the Gryphins with three assists. Also picking up multiple points in the win were Harvey (2G), Vankleef (G, A) and Evan McGrath (2A).
Boxscore: http://stats.pointstreak.com/boxscore.html?gameid=3615781
The next night the Gryphins and Real McCoys took to the ice at the J. L. Grightmire Arena.
Wentworth would open the scoring for the second consecutive night with Connor Ventura scoring his first of the contest. 42 seconds after going down by a goal, Trevor Atkinson knotted the game at one for the McCoys.
Dustin Alcock, on the power play, and Christian Polillo would notch goals to give Dundas the lead before Jason Popek scored at 12:02 of the second to get the Gryphons within a goal.
Wentworth would regain the lead as Connor Ventura picked up goals at 4:17 and 6:51 of the stanza to complete the hat trick. The McCoys would even the score though on Cam Fergus’ power play marker with 4:53 remaining in regulations. However, it didn’t stay tied for long as Declan Ride notched his first of the season 42 seconds later and then added an empty netter to secure the Gryphins’ second win of the year.
In the Wentworth win, Venurea (3G) and Ride (2G, 1A) each had three points while Kyle Lewis added a pair of assists. For Dundas, Atkinson (1G, 1A) and Paul Cianfrini (2A) would each pick up a pair of points.
Boxscore: http://stats.pointstreak.com/boxscore.html?gameid=3615783
In the final game of the opening week of competition, the Hamilton Steelers and Brampton Buccaneers took to the ice at the Dave Andreychuk Mountain Arena.
It was all Steelers for the first half of the game as they picked up goals from Kyle McQuade and Jacob Bush in the first period. Chris Leveille and Jamie Williams extended the Hamilton lead to four in the second before Marc-Anthony Simonetta scored the first goal in Brampton’s franchise history at the 17-minute mark of the second period. Less than a minute later Brett Bloor made it a two-goal game again with the Buccaneers second goal.
Hamilton would regain their four-goal lead in the third period on goals by Mike Ruberto and Leveille’s second of the contest. Simonetta added a power play marker with 1:38 but the Steelers would go on to double up Brampton 6-3.
Leveille led the way for Hamilton with three points (2G, 1A). Danny Attridge (2A), Ruberto (1G, 1A), Buch (1G, 1A) and Cam Sault (2A) would all have a pair of pints in the victory. For Brampton, Simonetta had two goals while Nic Giamou collected two assists.
Boxscore: http://stats.pointstreak.com/boxscore.html?gameid=3615782
Upcoming Games
Friday, December 9
Brampton at Dundas – 7:30pm
Wentworth at Hamilton – 7:30pm
Thursday, December 15
Hamilton at Wentworth – 7:30pm
