Peterborough Petes Extend Losing Streak On the Road to Ottawa 67's in 6-2 Loss

The Peterborough Petes extend their losing streak to three, losing to the Ottawa 67’s, ironically the last team they defeated, in a 6-2 loss at the TD Place Arena on Sunday.

Tucker Robertson (middle) was the only goal-scorer for the Peterborough Petes against the Ottawa 67’s with two on Sunday. Photo courtesy of the Peterborough Petes.

The Petes allowed the first four scores in the first half of the game, coughing up goals to Vinzenz Rohrer, Luca Pinelli, Henry Mews and Brady Stonehouse respectively.

Tucker Robertson eventually broke the shutout for Peterborough. He beat 67’s goalie Collin MacKenzie’s five-hole on the powerplay to make it 4-1 into the third period.

The Petes could not build any momentum as they allowed another two goals from Ottawa’s Matthew Mayich and Cooper Foster. Ottawa had six different goal-scorers contribute to their offense. Robertson was able to score his second of the game in the final two minutes to make it 6-2 but it was all for naught.

Peterborough suffered penalty woes throughout the game as they committed 11 minors, two majors and three game misconducts.

As both teams were given coincidental roughing minor penalties with 12 seconds left in the game, Liam Sztuska and MacKenzie got into a rare goaltender fight that ignited the crowd.

The Petes next game is Big Brothers Big Sisters night on Thursday against the Kitchener Rangers as Peterborough will attempt to snap their three-game losing streak.

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Peterborough Petes Defenceman Named OHL Academic Player of the Month

Peterborough Petes defenceman James Guo has been named the OHL East Division Academic Player of the Month for November announced on Friday.

Guo is in his second season with the Peterborough Petes. During his rookie season with the Petes, he had one goal and three assists in 52 games. Photo courtesy of the Peterborough Petes.

The Woodbridge-born defenseman has an 87 per cent average in grade 12 university-level Advanced Functions, Interdisciplinary Studies and Nutrition and Health at Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School.

“James is a dedicated athlete and student,” said Petes academic advisor Shannon Fife. “He balances his academics with a busy on and off-ice schedule. James is a leader and presents himself as such in the school.”

Guo has played 18 games this season with one goal for the Petes. He was selected in the fourth round, 74th overall by Peterborough in the 2021 OHL Priority Selection. He will be eligible for the 2023 NHL Entry Draft.

The following is a list of all recipients for the honour for the year:

Central Division:
November – Finn Harding (Mississauga Steelheads)
October – Kieron Walton (Sudbury Wolves)

Midwest Division:
November – Braedyn Rogers (Owen Sound Attack)
October – Denver Barkey (London Knights)

West Division:
November – Bronson Ride (Windsor Spitfires)
October – Alex Kostov (Soo Greyhounds)

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Peterborough Petes Collect 1,097 Teddy Bears In 7-4 Loss to Flint Firebirds

The Peterborough Petes may have lost 7-4 to the Flint Firebirds but were able to collect 1,097 teddy bears for their annual ‘Teddy Bear Toss’ for the Salvation Army’s Annual Christmas Appeal at the Peterborough Memorial Centre on Thursday night.

The teddy 1,097 teddy bears were tossed after Jack Van Volsen’s goal in the final minute of the first period. The first intermission took place after the toss and resumed the final minute of the first period afterwards. Photo courtesy of the PEterborough Petes.

The Petes had a rough start despite peppering Firebirds’s (and Peterborough native) Will Cranley with 19 shots in the first period. They allowed the first three goals from Amadeus Lombardi, Gavin Hayes and Dmitry Kuzmin (short-handed) to give the visitors a 3-0 lead.

The teddy bears finally got to rain down in the final minute of the period as Jack Van Volsen buried a rebound on there powerplay to send the teddy bears flying and make the game 3-1.

Van Volsen continued where he left off in scoring his second of the game to cut Flint’s lead to 3-2. The Firebirds quickly restored their two-goal lead when Ethan Hay beat Petes goaltender Michael Simpson to make it 4-2.

Just three minutes late Lomardi got his second goal of the game for a 5-2 lead. Sahil Panwar scored just over three minutes later to make it 5-3, cutting the lead down to two. Flint retaliated quickly 13 seconds later to retake the three-goal lead. The play was reviewed to determine if there the puck was kicked in but the play stood. Former Firebird Brennan Othmann was able to score on his former squad to make it 6-4 into the third.

Both teams struggled to find the back of the net in the third as the Firebirds scored the only period’s goal as an empty net goal to win 7-4.

The Petes next game is Hockey for All – Neurodiversity/Sensory Awareness night at the PMC on Saturday against the North Bay Battalion.

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U13 Hockey Team Raises $1,300 For Needing Families on Giving Tuesday

The U13 Central Ontario AAA Wolves put their generous spirit on display raising nearly $1,350 to purchase gifts on ‘Giving Tuesday’ for needing families for in Peterborough.

Photo courtesy of Chad Birkhof.

“It’s something that we’ve done with other teams we’ve coached,” said Chad Birkhof, Wolves head coach. “For us, it was a bit of a team-building function. Those kids raised that money on their own and they had the opportunity to buy for those families and children. It’s the gift of giving at Christmas.”

All photos courtesy of Chad Birkhof.

The team consisted of players from Peterborough, Omemee, Bobcaygeon and Lindsay. They shopped for gifts at Walmart on Chemong Road with their coaches and determined what would be suitable for the respective families they were helping.

The Wolves had sponsored a family of four and gave gifts to them as well as two other teenagers (one boy and one girl).

“We are so proud of this group of boys and so grateful that the Wolves are able to spread some Christmas cheer and support those who need it the most,” said Courtney Bribeau, Central Ontario Wolves ice scheduler. “Thanks to the coaches and mothers who helped pull all of this together.”

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Electric City Football Club Launches Reserve Teams Partnership With FC Durham

The Electric City Football Club (ECFC) has launched their League 1 Ontario men’s and women’s 2023 reserve teams, in partnership with FC Durham Academy announced on Thursday.

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Durham and ECFC are eager to further invest in the affiliation formed during ECFC’s inaugural 2022 season and continue cultivating high-quality opportunities for players in the East region according to a press release.

Amongst this past season’s FC Durham Academy talent, were Caylan Lawrence and Rylee Traicoff, both scoring goals for ECFC’s Men’s and Women’s Teams respectively.

FC Durham Academy co-owners Tom Croft and Rich Hirst are bringing a combined 70 years of coaching experience.

“We are excited to expand our partnership with ECFC in 2023,” said Croft. “This will allow FC Durham to enhance our role in the High-Performance Pathway in Ontario, providing consistent challenges and opportunity for our players in our Post-Formation Phase U17 and older.”

Nick Kassermelli and Hirst are head coaches with the ECFC League 1 Men U21 and Women’s Reserve Teams respectively. Hirst will also assume the role of Assistant Coach with the ECFC League 1 Women’s Premier Team.

“We are thrilled to continue our partnership with FC Durham for the 2023 season. FC Durham is a constant in developing youth players that we have seen move onto post-secondary institutions and to even higher levels year after year,” said Randy Riberio, ECFC head coach. “We were very pleased with the quality of players that we were able to bring into first team training last season and even had some standout performances in quite a few L1 Premier matches on both our Men’s and Women’s teams in 2022. We look forward to fielding ECFC’s first ever Reserve Men’s and Women’s teams in partnership with FC Durham next season.”

ECFC is hosting their Men’s Open Tryouts on Monday at Wet ‘n’ Wild Dome in Brampton. Further details about women’s tryouts will be announced.

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Peterborough Petes Celebrating Local Hockey Moms For 14th Annual Pink In The Rink Campaign

The Peterborough Petes 14th-annual Pink in the Rink game celebrates and honours hockey moms afflicted by cancer and will be played on Feb. 4 against the Oshawa Generals announced at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) on Wednesday.

Members of PRHC and the Peterborough Petes players and staff outside the PRHC on a rainy morning. Last year raised $76,952.18 for the Canadian Cancer Society. Photo by David Tuan Bui.

The goal for this year’s campaign is $50,000. Proceeds go toward cancer care at (PRHC). Lesley Heighway, PRHC Foundation president and CEO says that with cancer volumes on the rise, donors are essential to the hospital’s ability to serve more patients, support earlier diagnosis and ensure safer, more effective treatments, close to home.

“The number of patients from Peterborough and the surrounding area who rely on PRHC to support their cancer journey continues to climb,” she said. “It’s events like Pink in the Rink and organizations like the Peterborough Petes – along with the people and businesses who support them –  that fund the tools our experts need to save and improve lives.”

Leading up to the game, the Petes are accepting nominations of local hockey moms to be honoured leading up to and during the game. 

This is a spin on prior years as annual chairs were selected to spearhead the campaign.

“With the honourary chair model that we used to use, it would be a little bit burdensome on those people,” said Burton Lee, Petes executive director of business operations. “They had lives, they were trying to manage day-to-day, probably still dealing with their cancer journey and on top of that, we were saying 'raise a bunch of money for us, would you?'“

The Petes are accepting orders to purchase a name (up to 200) to be printed on one of their Pink in the Rink game-worn jersey for $20. The Petes will unveil a special jersey with the purchased names at a future date.

Fans can also buy a special edition custom Pink in the Rink t-shirt with any name on the back and donate tickets to cancer survivors or volunteers to attend the game. A live auction will take place after the game to bid on game-worn jerseys.

The Pets have raised $900,000 over the past 13 years as they are closing in on their $1 million milestone. 

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Peterborough Petes Cough Up Four Unanswered Goals In 6-4 Loss to Sudbury Wolves

The Peterborough Petes allowed four unanswered goals from the Sudbury Wolves resulting in a 6-4 loss on Diabetes Night at the Peterborough Memorial Centre on Thursday.

Photo courtesy of Kenneth Andersen Photography and the Peterborough Petes.

Petes’ Tommy Purdeller wasted no time and scored four minutes into the game. The lead lasted for nine seconds as Evan Konyen scored his fifth goal of the season to tie the game at one. Sahil Panwar made it 2-1 to give Peterborough the lead into the second.

David Goyette tied the game up for Sudbury four minutes into the second. Three minutes later, Purdeller scored his second of the game for a 3-2 Petes lead. Connor Lockhart extended the lead and gave Peterborough an insurance goal to make it 4-2. The Wolves quickly countered 31 seconds later to cut into the lead 4-3 with a Nick DeGrazia goal heading into the third.

Konyen scored again, 3:58 into the period to tie the game at 4-4. He scored again, netting the hat trick, giving Sudbury their first lead of the game. Alex Pharand gave the Wolves an insurance goal two minutes later and never looked back for the 6-4 win.

Diabetes Night was a personal initiative brought forth by Petes’ goaltender Michael Simpson (where you can donate online) who has had Type-1 diabetes since he was three. The Petes in partnership with Tandem Diabetes Care raised $7,869 on the night to send local children to Diabetes Canada D-Camps.

The Petes will travel to Oshawa Friday night to take on the rival Generals for the second time in two weeks.

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Curve Lake's Sierra Jacobs Selected to 2022 Wickenheiser Female World Hockey Festival

Curve Lake’s Sierra Jacobs is headed to Calgary for the 2022 Wickenheiser Female World Hockey Festival, representing team ‘Little NHL’ in the U15 platinum division.

Photo courtesy of the Peterborough Ice Kats.

Jacobs’s team is comprised of all First Nation female hockey players in a four-day tournament.

She is also a member of the PGHA GP Wealth Management U15 Peterborough IceKats. Her teammate Cece-Lyn Beaulne of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation is also joining her as part of the Little NHL team.

The team’s schedule is as follows:

• Friday vs Surrey Falcons at 11:45 a.m.

• Friday vs San Jose Jr. Sharks at 7 p.m.

• Saturday vs. Winnipeg Titans at 5:30 p.m.

• Sunday vs. North Central Impact at 10 a.m.

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Peterborough Tigers U13 To Receive Several Honours At Awards Ceremony In Trenton

The Peterborough Baseball Association’s U13 Tigers are being recognized for several awards at the Eastern Ontario Baseball Association (EOBA) Annual General Meeting at the Ramada Inn in Trenton on Saturday.

Photo courtesy of Peterborough Tigers.

The U13 Tigers became the first PBA team to earn a berth in the Baseball Canada National Championships in August.

The Tigers are being recognized as 2022 Team of the Year.

Two individual awards are being handed out to the team as Brett Crowley will be named EOBA pitcher of the year and Blake Bowers as the EOBA representative player of the year.

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Peterborough Petes' Michael Simpson Named OHL Goaltender of the Week

Peterborough Petes’ Michael Simpson is named OHL Goaltender of the Week after posting a 2-0 record last week including his second shutout of the season announced on Monday.

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Simpson posted a 1.50 goals against average (GAA) and a 0.950 save percentage (SV%) during that span.

The London product earned a 4-0 shutout win over the rival Oshawa Generals with 26 saves on Thursday night. He won on back-to-back nights, stopping 31 of 24 shots in a 7-3 win over the Mississauga Steelheads.

“It’s an honour,” said Simpson. “Lots of goalies had good weekends so to be noticed for the award is definitely awesome. The team made my job easy this weekend.”

This is Simpson’s second time earning the honour and last had it during the week of Nov. 1. Simpson currently leads the league in GAA (2.28), SV% (.925), and shutouts (two) in 16 games.

Simpson has spearheaded Diabetes Night this Thursday against the Sudbury Wolves at the Peterborough Memorial Centre. The night is to raise awareness and money in support of Diabetes Canada.

Fans are encouraged to wear blue on game night — as it’s the official colour of Diabetes Month — where the arena will be lit in the same colour in honour of the cause.

The goaltender was diagnosed with Type-1 Diabetes when he was three years old.

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