Petes lose 3-0, slip in standings after back-to-back losses
Nick Robertson returns to Petes lineup in Mississauga
MISSISSAUGA — The Peterborough Petes have hit their first little bump in the road this season.
Just two days after entering the Kia CHL Top 10 rankings at No. 5, the Petes suffered their second loss in as many nights falling 3-0 to the Mississauga Steelheads on Friday at the Paramount Fine Foods Centre. It marks the first time the Petes, now 8-4-0, have suffered back-to-back losses this season.
The Steelheads, who improved to 8-2-1, also slipped past the Petes in points and sit second in the OHL’s Eastern Conference with the Petes sliding from first on Wednesday to third. The Petes, who lost to the
Oshawa Generals
4-1 on Thursday night, will try to get back on track in Oshawa on Sunday starting at 6:05 p.m.
One spot of good news for the Petes on Friday was the return of sophomore forward Nick Robertson. Sidelined for nine games, Robertson was given the green light by the team’s medical staff on Friday morning to return from a wrist injury with a playing cast.
He had a solid scoring chance early in the third period off a Brady Hinz two-onone pass but was denied by Jacob Ingham’s toe save. Ingham made 33 saves for the shutout while Hunter Jones faced 30 shots in the Petes goal.
For the second night in a row the Petes struggled to get their offence on track but this time it was more about finishing than it was creating.
The Petes hit a pair of goal posts in the early stages of the first period with the game scoreless. Semyon Der-Arguchintsev drilled a shot off the post and Chris Paquette ticked one off the iron on a drive past the net.
Peterborough native Owen Tippett opened the scoring on a Steelheads power play in the first period’s lone goal at 7:24. Tippett spun inside the Petes blue-line after retrieving a pass and drilled a high shot over Jones making his 11th start in 12 games.
Tippett, who was returning from a fourgame suspension, has five goals and three assists in five games this season.
Last year he started the season with the Florida Panthers who selected him 10th overall in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft. This year the Panthers returned him before the start of the OHL season.
The Steelheads made it two-for-two on the man-advantage 8:24 into the second period. Cole Schwindt buried a rebound off a point shot for his third goal of the season assisted by Filip Reisnecker and Charlie Callaghan.
Those three players teamed up 31 seconds later to make it 3-0 as Reisnecker fired a shot through traffic.
NOTES: The three stars were 1. Jacob Ingham (M); 2. Owen Tippett (M); 3. Charlie Callaghan (M);…. Hardest working Pete was Liam Kirk.… Petes scratches were Dustin Hutton and Jacob Partridge due to numbers, as the Petes dressed seven defencemen, John ParkerJones (finger) and Zach Gallant (high ankle sprain).… The Petes were zero-forfive on the power play and zero-for-nine their past two games. Mississauga was two-for-three.