Falcons confident going into Game 2

Three-minute breakdown contributes to loss

Frank Girhiny felt good going into Good Friday action in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League

Yes, the Caledonia Corvairs beat his St. Catharines Falcons in the opening game of the Golden Horseshoe Conference finals and, yes, they did so decisively, by a 6-0 margin.

However, the junior B team’s general manager and coach took away more positives than negatives from the first game in the best-of-seven series. The final score, he said, was not indicative of how the seconded-seed Falcons played the No. 1 seed for much of Wednesday night’s game in Caledonia.

“All in all, we played a really good first two periods,” Girhiny said. “We played real well, we had a number of chances where we missed one.”

The Corvairs took a two-goal lead into the third period in Wednesday night’s game after “we made two bad mistakes with the puck.

“It’s not like they did something to beat us.”

A three-minute breakdown on the part of the Falcons resulted in three Caledonia goals and a 1-0 deficit heading in Game 2 last night at Jack Gatecliff Arena in St. Catharines.

“The end result? We wanted to have a good effort,” Girhiny said. “We did that for two periods, and we had a little bit of a meltdown in the third.

“But I expect us to bounce right back on Friday.” FALCONS continues // C6