FREDERICTON, N.B. — The power play was powerful Saturday for the Summerside D. Alex MacDonald Ford Western Capitals.
The Caps went 4-for-6 with the man advantage to defeat the Fredericton Red Wings 7-3 in Maritime Junior Hockey League action in the New Brunswick capital.
Kallum Muirhead had two goals and two assists to pace the Caps’ attack while Bennett MacArthur had two goal and an assist. Captain Brodie MacArthur had a goal and two assists while Jacob Arsenault had three helpers.
Brodie MacMillan and Marc-Andre LeCouffe also scored in the road win. LeCouffe and Ed McNeill each added an assist in the victory.
Captain Evan White, Brady Patterson and Ethan Stuckless scored for Fredericton.
Alec MacVicar stopped 26 shots in the win while Stratford’s Erik MacInnis made 26 stops in the loss.
Summerside held 3-1 and 5-3 period leads. The Capitals, the seventh-ranked team in the Canadian Junior Hockey League, improve to 22-3-0-1 while the Red Wings are 13-10-1-0. The Red Wings won the last meeting, 5-4 in a shootout on Nov. 30.
Summerside completes the weekend road trip in New Brunswick with a 3 p.m. contest in Edmundston against the Blizzard (15-6-1-2).
