Ethan Del Mastro with 3a tonight as his Mississauga team eliminates Barrie to advance to 2nd round of OHL East playoffs...
Final score of the game was was 6-4 ...in the firstc2 periods Del Mastro was very good ...played as LD...for some strange reason his coach put him at RD in 3rd period...when Barrie put a big push on to avoid elimination...after dominating shots on goal and causing Barrie to take lots of penalties in the first 2 periods
Mississauga led 5-1....Barrie caused Mississauga to take some penalties in the 3rd and they scored both on the PP,on 4x4 and and with goalie out and extra man to get within a goal with time running down...but again pulling their goalie a 2nd time,,DelMastro makes an intercept and pases to To James Hardie who fights off a checker,fires,and scores into the empty net to salt the game away .
I wondered why they did not give Del Mastro another assist for getting the puck upto Hardie escaping the zone and then firing in the en goal......but maybe they ruled that Hardie lost possession to his checker for a split second before coming away clean with it again and then scoring?
To me it looked like Del Msstro deserved an assist on the play ...but I guess the official scorer saw it differently .
In any casex3a for Del Mastro in tge win...
My impression is that zdel Mastro is best as a LD notca RD ...butcakk sesson hos coach kept shifting him from LD to RD in the middle to last 3rd of games...I do not know why they just do not leave him at the LD where he defends bestcandvkerpsvpucks in from thevo-bluekineb best ..
So if it were me I would just use hom as a LD. Where he looks more comfortable to my eyes.