OHL TEAMS BATTLE TONIGHT

GAME DAY

2011 MasterCard Memorial Cup – Preliminary Round

Owen Sound Attack vs Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors

Tonight, May 25, 2011 at 8:00 pm

Hershey Centre

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Two Ontario Hockey League teams battle this evening at the 2011 MasterCard Memorial Cup to close out the tournament’s round-robin action.

The host Mississauga St. Michael’s Majors and Owen Sound Attack meet in a rematch of the OHL championship series. The Attack won the series in seven games with the decisive victory coming in overtime at the Hershey Centre.

Tonight will be the first time the two have met since Game Seven of that series. There will be a lot on the line tonight as well with the winner advancing directly to the semifinal and the loser having to play in tomorrow's tie-breaker game against the Western Hockey League’s Kootenay Ice.

The winner of the tie-breaker game will then play in the semifinal game. The winner of the semifinal match will take on the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League’s Saint John Sea Dogs in Sunday’s championship affair.

The Attack won their first game 5-0 over the Ice on Saturday. They then fell 3-2 in overtime against Saint John on Monday, a loss that put the Sea Dogs directly into the final.

Owen Sound will once again be without forward Joey Hishon. Hishon was injured in the Attack’s first game against Kootenay after taking a Brayden McNabb elbow to the head. He has not played since.

The Majors are also 1-1 after dropping their first match 4-3 to Saint John on Friday and then downed the Ice 2-1 on Sunday.

At the Hershey Centre, the Majors were 25-8-0-1 in the regular season and 9-2-0-0 in the playoffs.

Game time is 8:00 pm and can be seen on Rogers Sportsnet and RDS.