73's-Devlin, shutout Amherstburg. 3-0
AMHERSTBURG - Brock Devlin picked up his first junior career shutout and the Essex 73's defeated the Amherstburg Admirals, 3-0, Saturday night at the Libro Centre in Amhersburg.
Devlin stopped all 16 shots he faced as the 73's improved to 10-3-1-0 on the season.
Connor Hunt, Jack Lewis and Jaxen Fortier-Smith had the Essex goals.
73's put up 9 goals against Dresden
ESSEX - Marcus Levesque had a hat trick and Carter Dembinski recorded a career-high 5 assists as the Essex 73's defeated the visiting Dresden Kings, 9-3 Tuesday night at the Essex Centre Sports Complex.
Dresden was never really in this game, and if not for the three late-game goals, the result would have looked even worse for the struggling Kings who are now 5-7-1-0 on the season and sit in 6th place in the Stobbs Division. They have now dropped four of their last five games with their only win over last place Walpole Island.
For Essex (9-3-1-0) the win was just what the doctor ordered after losing their last two games in which they only scored a total of three goals.
Birk Cassels got the win in goal stopping 24-of-27 shots.
Aside from Levesque's hat trick, Connor Hunt added a pair of goals and Gabe Barrettte, Luke Sherk, Andrew baker and newly aquired, Jack Lewis, had the others.
Dresden got goals from the Graham brothers, Cameron and Colton, and another by Nathan Reidhead.
Essex finding difficulty scoring goals early in the season
BLENHEIM - It's early in the season but thus far, the Essex 73's have had some troubles finding the back of the net. This was true Sunday night when the Blenheim Blades knocked off the 73's, in overtime, 2-1.
Essex (8-3-1-0) is averaging 3.4 goals scored per game on the season, and sit in second place in the Stobbs Division, so there is certainly no need to panic at this point. But over their last four games alone, their record is 2-1-1-0 and they have scored less than two goals in three-of-the last four contests.
They'll look to get things back on track Tuesday night when they host the Dresden Kings.
Blenheim (7-3-0-0) got a goal in overtime last night off the stick of Stefan Jacobs, his 4th of the season, and another early in the first period by Andrew Goulet, while the 73's lone goal was scored by Connor Hunt.
It should be said, it's not like the 73's are not getting their chances. They outshot the Blades, 42-24. They are just not converting on their opportunities - yet.
Sharks take big bite out of 73's
WHEATLEY - The Essex 73's, coming off a big home-ice win the night before, skated into the Wheatley Area Arena looking to extend their win streak to six games, but the Wheatley Sharks would have no part of that plan.
Wheatley played catchup for the first two periods, falling behind to the 73's 1-0, and 2-1, but would take advantage of a powerplay opportunity part-way through the third period to break a 2-2 tie, and later they would add an empty net goal to defeat the 73's, 4-2.
William Claridge and Matthew Cole scored the Essex goals, while Xander Zanier, Josh Chauvin, Gavin Wasylyk and Brendan Gouin had the Sharks goals.
Brock Devlin took the loss in goal for Essex despite stopping 32-of-34 shots he faced.
