GAME NIGHT. February 26, :00 PM. 15th Anniversary Season

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1 GAME NIGHT February 26, :00 PM VS 15th Anniversary Season

2 Saginaw Spirit vs. Flint Firebirds Game Notes February 26, :00 PM EST, Dow Event Center, Saginaw, MI Saginaw Spirit (53 pts) L2 Flint Firebirds (63 pts) L1 Team Game: (Home) Team Game: (Home) Home Game: (Road) Road Game: (Road) PP: 16.4% (17th) / PK: 77.7% (19th) OT: (0-7) SO: (2-2) GF / GA: 179 / 223 PP: 13.9% (18th) / PK: 81.0% (9th) OT: (6-1) SO: (2-4) GF / GA: 194 / 202 # Goaltender (NHL or Draft) GP W L OTL GAA SV% 20 Brendan Bonello Evan Cormier (NJ) # Goaltender (NHL or Draft) GP W L OTL GAA SV% 33 Garrett Forrest Connor Hicks # P Player (NHL or Draft) GP G A PTS +/- PIM # P Player (NHL or Draft) GP G A PTS +/- PIM 5 D Marcus Crawford D Alex Peters (OA) LW Kyle Bollers D Hakon Nilsen C Brady Gilmour D Jalen Smereck (FA - ARZ C Kris Bennett (OA) ) 14 RW D.J. Busdeker D Samuel Duchesne C Matthew Kreis LW Maurizio Colella C Max Grondin D Hayden Davis LW Jack Phibbs E 4 24 D Brock Hill LW Nicholas Caamano RW (DAL) 16 Hayden Hodgson (OA) D C.J. Garcia (OA) RW Cole Coskey D Keaton Middleton (TOR) D Markus Niemelainen (EDM) D Filip Hronek (DET) LW Jesse Barwell LW Gianluca Fuoco LW Mike Davies C Damien Giroux D Dennis Busby RW Jake Durham D Fedor Gordeev E D Michal Steinocher C Everett Clark (OA) RW C.J. Clarke D Mathieu Henderson (OA) LW Ryan Littlejohn C Ryan Moore LW Luke Kirwan C Ty Dellandrea LW Jacob Collins RW Kole Sherwood (FA CBJ 15) C Hunter Holmes General Manager Head Coach Associate Coach Assistant Coach / Assistant GM Eqip. Manager/Athletic Therapist Pronunciation Guide # Name Pronunciation 5 Marcus Crawford Craw-ferd 7 Kyle Bollers Bowl-lurs 9 Brady Gilmour Gill-more 11 Kris Bennett Ben-nitt 14 D.J. Busdeker Bus-DECKER 15 Matthew Kreis KRICE 18 Maxim Grodin Grawn-den 20 Brandan Bonello Buh-NELL-ph 21 Hayden Davis Day-vis 24 Brock Hill Hill 29 Hayden Hodgson Hodge-son 35 Evan Cormier Core-ME-eh 42 C.J Garcia Gar-see-uh Tonight s Officials Referees Dave Drinkill (2nd season) Spencer Carbery (1st season) Chris Lazary John Kisil Jared Martlock, Jeremy Spencer # Name Pronunciation 49 Cole Coskey Koss-Key 55 Keaton Middleton Midd-al-tin 56 Markus Niemelainen NEE-mel-LINE-nin 71 Filip Hronek Roe-nick 77 Jesse Barwell Bar-well 91 Gianluca Fuoco Foo-OH-koh 93 Mike Davies Day-vees 96 Damien Giroux Jurr-roo General Manager Head Coach Assoiciate Coach Assistant Coach / Video Coach Eqip. Manager/Athletic Therapist Pronunciation Guide # Name Pronunciation 2 Alex Peters Pete-urs 4 Hakon Nilsen Nill-sen 5 Jalen Smereck Sm-air-ick 6 Samuel Duchesne Doo-shane 7 Maurizio Colella Cole-el-uh 9 Jack Phibbs Fibbs 10 Nick Caamamo Cuh-man-oh 11 Dennis Busby Bus-bee 12 Jake Durham Dur-ham 15 Fedor Gordeev Gore-deev 16 Michal Steinocher St-eye-nah-kerr 17 Everett Clark Clark 18 C.J. Clarke Clark 24 Mathieu Henderson Hen-dur-son Linesmen George Burnett Ryan Oulahen Eric Wellwood Scott MacDonald Mike Hildenbrand, Alex Covers # Name Pronunciation 26 Ryan Littlejohn Little-john 40 Ryan Moore Moore 44 Luke Kirwan Kerr-win 53 Ty Dellandrea Dell-an-dree-uh 73 Jacob Collins Coll-ins 92 Kole Sherwood Shure-wood 93 Hunter Holmes Holmes Today s OHL Schedule (All times are EST) Guelph 2:00 Kingston 2:00 Mississauga 2:00 Ottawa 2:00 Owen Sound 2:00 Windsor 2:05 North Sault Ste. Marie 2:07 Saginaw 4:00 Oshawa 6:05

3 Saginaw Spirit: Media Notes Sunday, February 26th: OHL Regular Season Game Saginaw Spirit ( ), 53 pts., 9th Western Conference vs. Flint Firebirds ( ), 63 pts., 7th Western Conference 4:00 PM - Dow Event Center, Saginaw, MI Broadcast Info: TV: OHL Action Pak (Province Wide) Radio: FM Talk & Sports WSGW FM (Saginaw), Sports Xtra WTRX 1330 AM (Flint) Mobile: OHL Live, FM Talk App, TuneIn Radio Web Stream: OHL Live Press Box Wifi: Spirit GDO Password: Zf3!6BcL Last Time Out vs. Flint February 17, Dow Event Center: The Saginaw Spirit faced off against the Flint Firebirds to continue the Coors Light I-75 Divide Cup series. After a strong start with three goals in the opening period, the Spirit held on for the rest of the game for a 4-1 victory. It only took three minutes for the Spirit to strike first. D.J. Busdeker scored his fifth goal of the season on a tip of a Filip Hronek shot. Brady Gilmour gathered the puck at the left circle, and made a pass to Hronek who stood at the blue line. Hronek took a wrist shot, which deflected off of Busdeker s stick in front of the crease for the goal. At 10:42 the Firebirds struck back. A turnover in the Flint zone began the rush as Maurizio Colella found Ryan Moore in the neutral zone. Moore pushed the puck into the Saginaw zone as Kole Sherwood streaked towards the net. Moore made a nifty pass through two defenders to Sherwood, who scored his 28 th goal after a quick move on Evan Cormier. Exactly four minutes later, the Spirit took back the lead when Filip Hronek collected his 10 th goal of the year. Kris Bennett accrued the puck behind the Flint net and skated towards the blue line. Once he got there he dropped the puck off for Hronek, who took a wrist shot from the left point. Flint goaltender Garrett Forrest was screened by two players, and could not locate the puck until it was in the net. 30 seconds later, Saginaw added its third goal of the period to give them a 3-1 lead. Keaton Middleton shot the puck into the Flint zone. Hayden Hodgson chased it down to the right board, made a slick move past a defender. The puck followed him to the trapezoid area where he made a no-look pass to a streaking Kris Bennett who tallied his 19 th goal of the season. Saginaw led Flint in shots on goal, No goals were scored in the second period, but there were plenty of power plays to go around. Five penalties were committed, but three went against the Spirit. However, the Spirit held their own and left the Firebirds scoreless in each man-advantage. Unfortunately, the Firebirds also held the Spirit scoreless keeping the score 3-1 heading into the final period. Flint led Saginaw in shots on goal, Only one goal was scored in the third period, and it belonged to the Spirit. With less than three minutes to go in the game, the Firebirds pulled their goalie for an extra man. Just 18 seconds later, at 17:41 D.J. Busdeker added his second goal of the game with the empty-netter to give the Spirit the 4-1 victory. Saginaw led Flint in shots on goal, and took the game by a final of 4-1. With the victory, the Spirit are now seven points back of the Flint Firebirds for the eighth and final playoff spot. Season Series: Tonight the Spirit and the Flint Firebirds faceoff for the seventh of eight meetings in the Coors Light I-75 Divide Cup Series. Flint has won four out of the six meetings this season and can clinch the cup with a win tonight. SPIRIT NHL ALUMNI NAME POS DRAFT YR NHL Team Chris Thorburn RW 2001 Buffalo Sabres 2nd round, 50th overall Paul Bissonnette LW 2003 Pittsburgh Penguins 4th round, 121th overall T.J. Brodie D 2008 Calgary Flames 4th round, 114th overall Dalton Prout D 2010 Columbus Blue Jackets 6th round, 154th overall Jamie Oleksiak D 2011 Dallas Stars 1st round, 14th overall Jordan Szwarz RW 2009 Arizona Coyotes 4th round, 97th overall Brandon Saad LW 2011 Chicago Blackhawks 2nd round, 43rd overall Vincent Trocheck C 2011 Florida Panthers 3rd round, 64th overall Ben Chiarot D 2009 Atlanta/Winnipeg 4th round, 120th overall Michael Sgarbossa C Undrafted Anaheim (NHL) / San Diego (AHL) Cody Bass C 2005 Ottawa Senators 4th round, 95th overall Tom Pyatt C 2005 New York Rangers 4th round, 107th overall Matt Corrente D 2006 New Jersey Devils 1st round, 30th overall Jan Mursak C 2006 Detroit Red Wings 6th round overall, 182th overall Ryan O Marra RW 2005 New York Islanders 1st round, 15th overall Chris Breen D Undrafted Calgary Flames ( ) Geoff Platt LW Undrafted Columbus Blue Jackets ( ) John McFarland RW 2010 Florida Panthers (2015)

4 Home Schedule DATE OPPONENT TIME/RESULT Sat. Sep 24 Vs Guelph 2-1 L Sat Oct 1 Vs Ottawa 6-3 L Sat Oct 15 Vs Mississauga 3-2 OTL Sat Oct 22 Vs Kingston 3-2 W Sat Nov 5 Vs Barrie 4-2 W Sat Nov 12 Vs Peterborough 7-4 W Wed Nov 16 Vs Sault Ste Marie 5-3 L Fri Nov 18 Vs Erie 8-3 W Sat Nov 19 Vs Owen Sound 4-2 W Sat Nov 26 Vs Kitchener 4-1 L Sun Nov 27 Vs Guelph 4-2 W Sat Dec 3 Vs Niagara 5-1 W Sun Dec 4 Vs Windsor 3-2 OTL Thu Dec 8 Vs Sarnia 3-0 W Wed Dec 14 Vs Flint 3-1 W Sat Dec 17 Vs Sarnia 6-0 L Wed Dec 28 Vs Windsor 4-3 OTL Thu Dec 29 Vs Sault Ste. Marie 4-3 L Fri Jan 6 Vs Sarnia 3-2 SO W Sat Jan 7 Vs Erie 4-2 W Tue Jan 10 Vs Flint 11-2 L Sat Jan 14 Vs London 4-3 L Thu Jan 26 Vs Hamilton 6-5 W Sat Jan 28 Vs Windsor 3-2 W Wed Feb 1 Vs Sault Ste Marie 5-2 L Sat Feb 4 Vs London 4-1 W Fri Feb 17 Vs Flint 4-1 W Sat Feb 18 Vs Kitchener 5-4 OTL Sat Feb 25 Vs North Bay 3-2 L Sun Feb 26 Vs Flint Fri Mar 3 Vs Oshawa Sat Mar 4 Vs Sudbury Wed Mar 15 Vs Sault Ste Marie Sat Mar 18 Vs Windsor EASTERN CONFERENCE STANDINGS TEAM GP W L OTL SOL PTS W% GF GA PIM X Peterborough Mississauga X Oshawa Hamilton Kingston Sudbury Ottawa North Bay Niagara Barrie WESTERN CONFERENCE TEAM GP W L OTL SOL PTS W% GF GA PIM X- Erie X- Sault Ste. Marie X-London X- Owen Sound X- Windsor Kitchener Flint Sarnia Saginaw Guelph X = Clinched Playoff Spot

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