ERIE – A struggling power play hurt the Guelph Storm Saturday night in a 4-1 road loss to the Erie Otters.
The Storm went scoreless on six power plays on the night.
Matt Spence opened the scoring with a breakaway goal for the Otters. After a scoreless second, the home side made it 2-0 on a power play goal with 12:41 left in the period.
Jake Karabela made things interesting with a goal late in the third, but the Otters scored on the power play with just over three minutes remaining then added an empty netter to seal the victory.
Kyle Downey started in net for Guelph against his former team. Downey is on emergency loan to the Storm and he played very well.
Guelph was also missing four regular defencemen, three due to injury and Michael Buchinger who is off to the Team Canada selection camp Sunday.
The Storm hosts the league-leading Kitchener Rangers Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m.
