The Brooklin Redmen entered tonight’s game at the Powerade Centre fighting for their playoff lives and left wondering what might have been. The Excelsiors handed the Redmen a 13-2 loss and with a fourth straight win took the semi final series 4-2. Aaron Bold did his part as his team was outshot 58-32; the Brampton defence stifled Williams, Hopcroft and Co., as offence was hard to come by in this entire series for the Redmen.
The Redmen actually had the lead as Caleb Wiles scored with 11 minutes off the clock in the first, Cam Holding made it 2-1 late in the first as he cut across the front of the crease and deposited the ball in the top corner. The Redmen would not illuminate the red lamp behind Anthony Cosmo for the rest of the night.
The Excelsiors scored 12 goals unanswered to take the win. Wayne Colley sent his captain Derek Suddons out to request an equipment check on Cosmo with five minutes to go but that only resulted in a delay of game for the Redmen, as everything seemed in order.
Chris Williams and Dale Sett called three minors to the Excelsiors and eight to the Redmen, Brampton scored twice on the man advantage.
The Excelsiors will wait for the winner of the Lakers/Chiefs series (game 7 is Monday night in Peterborough) for the right to play in the Eastern Canadian Championship final series.
The Redmen will take solace in the fact that they finished second this year with a 13-7 record, vast improvement over last year. Some positives this year, solid goaltending thanks to Bold ably backed-up by John Chesebrough, the Redmen welcomed back Shawn Williams who took home hardware as league MVP and scoring champ with 120 points, second overall was Derek Hopcroft. Defence got tougher and another year of experience for some of the younger players can only help. Fans will now look forward to the 2012 season.
Scoring
Brooklin – Wiles (1), Holman (0,1), Brownell (0,1), Campbell (0,1), Holding (1)
Brampton – J Resetarits (3), Rubisch (0,1), Chapman (0,1), Dawson (1,3), Burton (2), Walters (1,4), Z Greer (2,1), Davis (0,3), Neufeld (0,1), B Greer (1), F Resetarits (1,4), Ross (0,1) Hominuk (2,3)
