Captain Liam Greentree took leadership to a new level on Monday.

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Windsor Spitfires captain Liam Greentree took leadership to the next level on Monday.

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The 19-year-old Greenree scored a club-record five playoff goals and added assists to take the Spitfires on a 6-3 road to beat the Kitchener Rangers before being in the 6,436 crowd at the Memorial Auditorium.

“In a game like this, there’s a lot of emotions in my mind,” Greentree said, breaking Ernie Golden’s 1981 mark of the four-man club in Brantford.

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“No, I definitely don’t have a game like this, but playing with my brothers is a family that makes it even more special.”

To win, Spitfires led 3-0 in the seventh Western Conference semi-final series. Windsor can win the second session final for four years on Wednesday in Game 4 at Kitchener.

“We’re not going to be ahead of ourselves,” said Spitfires defensive player Anthony Cristoforo. “We know this (Kitchner) team is very skilled and we can’t see a shift.” Excited Wednesday. ”

Spitfires beat the Rangers 16-5 in three games, not one second behind in the first three games.

“It’s the honor we prepare,” Cristotle Foro said. “We have a system where everyone knows, everyone who wears Jersey knows who we are, and everyone is incredible.”

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New faces continue to appear in the Windsor roster that has been battling injuries throughout the playoffs. Defensive Grady Spicer spent the entire season in the Ontario Junior Hockey League with Brockville, who played in his second playoff game with forward Max Brocklehurst, who spent most of the season with LaSalle Vipers.

“It’s great to watch these guys play,” said Spitfires head coach Greg Walters.

But while the young man’s face helped fill some gaps, the Wanderer has no answer to Windsor’s top green, Ilia and Noah Morneau, which has produced

The series had 11 goals and 23 points.

“I think it’s probably the best line I’ve ever played,” Greentree said. “Quality has hockey,” A genius IQ strengthens it with Noah Morneau, and we rely on him. ”

As injuries piled up, Walters planned to move Morneau to another line in Game 3, but eventually chose to put the three together.

“I’m going to go,” Walters admitted. “Thank God, I don’t.”

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Greenree and Protas are now sharing OHL playoff scores with 24 points. Greentree has seven goals and nine points in three games against the Rangers. Protas scored his first goal on Monday, but also scored nine in three games. Morneau And the five points in this series. Morneau may have a goal on Monday but hesitated while waiting for Greentree to relax and feed his open-net goal.

“The game there spoke to our team,” Walters said.

Although the big line is indeed big, goalkeeper Joey Costanzo made 28 saves on Monday, with the third-stage goalkeeper Joey Costanzo also saying 28 times, when Windsor generally won 13-6 and 31-25.

“I think Joey Costanzo has always been the best player in our playoffs,” Greentree said.

Costanzo is now leading 1.83 goals in the playoffs, with an average score of 0.923.

“It’s so nice to start Joey,” Walters said. “Kichinner did a great job at the beginning and he made two big savings.”

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Greentree, in a two-way power play, and then in another goal, Windsor rose 2-0 after 20 minutes.

Kitchener was able to make it a single goal match twice, but Windsor responded each time. Luke Ellinas scored 2-1, but Greentree responded after 93 seconds. After Cameron Mercer scored 3-2, Protas responded to Windsor’s two-goal lead after 40 minutes.

Greentree added his second strong goal in the third stage, which was Windsor’s sixth place in three games. Tanner Lam brought the Rangers back two goals before Greentree scored to the empty net.

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Game Summary

Monday’s results

Spitfires 6 Rangers 3

Windsor 2 2 2 – 6

Kitchener 0 2 1 – 3

Issue 1: 1. Windsor, Greenentree 10 (Cristoforo, Abraham) 13:37, 2. Punishment: Nesbitt W (Fight), Mercer K (Agitator, Fight, Misconduct) 9:26, Protas W (Hook) 9:49, Garden W (Rough), Andonovski K (Holding, Holding, Roughing) 11:38, Grisolla K (Grisolla K (Delayed Game) 12:15.

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Phase 2: 3. Kitchener, Elinas 1 (Swedish, Samurai) 3:24, 4. Windsor, Grinterry 12 (Protas, cristoforo) 4:47, 5. Kitchener, Mercer 1 (Mercer 1 (Arquette, Lam) 5:52, 6. Windsor, Windsor, Windsor, Pretas 4 (Greentree, McNamara, Greenree, McNamara) 13:51. punish: Mercer K (cut) 15:14.

Stage 3: 7. Windsor, GreenTree 13 (Mornau, Pultoas) 1:32 (pp), 8. Kitchener, Lin 4 (Reed) 5:02, 9. Punishment: Pridham K (cross check): 58, Andonovski K (rough) 11:26, Garden W (misconduct), Gaymes W (misconduct), Hicks W (misconduct), Spicer W (misconduct), dirracolo K (misconduct) 19:58.

Game Statistics – SOG – Windsor 7 12 6 – 25 Kitchener 6 12 13 – 31 Target (lens) – Windsor: Costanzo (W, 7-0-1) (31-28). Kitchener: Parsons (L, 4-4-0) (24-19). Powerful match (goal chance) – Windsor 2-6. Kitchener 0-1. referee: Darcy Burchell and Drew Jackson. Informer: Brian Birkhoff and Dan Kovachik. arrive. : Kitchener Memorial Hall 6,436.

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