Holy Mackinaw! The Thunderwolves tied a team record on Friday night against the Guelph Gryphons when they put up seven goals in the 1st period of the game.
Ben Badalamenti would open the scoring just past the one minute mark finishing off a pass from Kevin Stiles.
Spencer Blackwell would add to the lead scoring a pair of goals on Gryphon netminder Brendan Cregan in a span of :21. The Gryphons would call a timeout after the 3rd Wolves goal and pull Cregan and send out Nate MacDonald to try and slow the scoring down.
It did not go as planned for the Gryphons as Joe Mack would convert on the powerplay with Colin Van Den Hurk and Olivier Pouliot picking up assists.
Ben Badalamenti would be sprung shorthanded by Greg Smith and have no problem beating Macdonald to up the lead to 5-0.
Keghan Gerrie would get in on the action after the penalty expired burying a Stephen Fox pass past Macdonald.
Spencer Blackwell would get the hats flying when he would strike for the hat trick on the powerplay taking a beauty pass from Griffen Fox and depositing it into the back of the net to finish the scoring in the period and put the Wolves up 7-0.
The Game would get very testy in the 2nd period with Guelph showing fustration being down by a large margin. Brendan Cregan would also return the the net for Guelph at the start of the period.
But they would press on and get on the board when Zach Poirier would find the net after picking up a lose puck in the neutral zone and beating Christian Cicigoi.
Lakehead would reply when Griffen Fox would join the scoring parade sliding a Josh Van Unen pass past Cregan to restore the 7 goal lead.
Guelph would add one near the end of the period on the powerplay by Jaxon Camp to cut the deficit to 6.
The third would see Keghan Gerrie notch his second of the night and Guelph's Jacob Winterton and Ted McGeen would round out the scoring.
Christian Cicigoi would stop 25 of 29 shoyts in the win.
The Molson 5 Forks 3 Stars of the Game:
- Spencer Blackwell - Lakehead
- Ben Badalamenti - Lakehead
- Griffen Fox - Lakehead.
Lakehead will host the Laurier Golden Hawks Saturday night at 7pm.