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Lakehead to face Windsor in the 1st round of the playoffs

Sat Feb 10, 2024
Written by Paul Wehrstedt
Photo by James Mirabelli

Lakehead to play Windsor in 1st round of the OUA playoff and starts at home on Wednesday February 14 and then shifts to Windsor for game 2 and 3 if necessary on Friday and Saturday.

It will be a rematch of last years OUA West Final with Lakehead looking to carry its momentum from their hot finish to the regular season into this best of 3 series.

Lakehead swept Windsor in their regular season meeting earlier in February by scores of 6-3 and 6-2.

Windsor will have their number 1 goalie back between the pipes in Nathan Torchia for the series. He served his 2 game suspension for punching a player with his blocker when Windsor was in town earlier in February.

Windsor holds the edge in all time playoff wins 8-6 over Lakehead while outscoring them 47-43.

Windsor has won the the 4 previous playoff series against the Wolves. They won last year in the West Final (2-1), 2015 playoffs (2-0), 2014 playoffs(2-0) and the 2012 playoffs (2-1).

Tickets are on sale now at tickets.thunderbay.ca. Season Ticket holders seats will be held until Tuesday at 2:30pm. Game time on Wednesday is 7pm. Lakehead will be awarding the Molson Cup on Wednesday to the Forks South 3 Stars of the game champion.