In their final regular season meeting, the Waxers got a scare from the hard working Pickering Panthers before a two goal third period powered Markahm to a 5-3 victory.  Ryan Olidis recorded his first ever Junior A hat trick on the evening and Anthony Guadagnolo picked up his 15th victory this season stopping 18 shots.

Pickering opened the scoring just over 7 minutes in to the game and Olidis would tie the game almost 6 minutes later to send the teams to the first intermission tied 1-1.  Albert Ferrante put the puck on net from the blueline and after corralling the puck, the Panthers goalie passed it right to Olidis who one-timed it back in to the net before the goalie could recover. 

The Waxers tried to blow the game open as they took an early 3-1 lead scoring twice on a five minute major penalty in the first 3:06 of the middle period.  Olidis bagged his second of the night finishing off a nice three way passing play from Mark Menonte and Tony Rossi to make it 2-1.  Then, just 31 seconds later, Kevin Cribari fed Pat Porretta at the Pickering blue line and he snapped a low hard shot past the goalie's blocker from the tops of the circles for his 37th of the year.  Pickering scored twice in the final 5 minutes of the period to tie the game heading in to the third period.

Olidis and Rossi combined to score the game winning goal just 4:15 in to the final period and then worked with Menonte to seal the victory in the final minutes.  First, on the game winning goal, Olidis dropped the puck to Rossi on a 2-on-2 rush and then screened the goalie as Rossi shot once, gathered his own rebound, and backhanded the puck in to the net for his 14th goal of the season.  Then, with under two minutes remaining, Menonte and Rossi brought the puck out of the Waxers zone and fed Olidis who streaked around the Panther defense and deked the goalie for his hat trick goal, ended the scoring for the evening.

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