Mississauga Hounds and Jeff Lewis Start Strong

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The new season is underway and with it, the career of Jeff Lewis of the Mississauga Hounds. The season kicked off with the Hounds facing the Saskatoon Wild in what ended up a pretty close game with the Hounds prevailing 2-0. Both goals were scored in the first two minutes of the game by BK Whopper and after that, nothing would get by either goalie. Jonny Elgar would pick up the shutout stopping all 35 shots he faced.

 

The Hounds second game was against the San Diego Marlins. Mississauga would have a commanding 4-2 lead headed into the third but the marlins has a very strong third period out shooting the Hounds 12-5 and outscoring them 3-0. The final score would be 5-4 for San Diego. Lewis would be held off the scoreboard for the second game in a row.

 

Next up for the Hounds would be back to back games against the Mexico City Kings with the first game going to a shootout with Mexico City winning the game 4-3. The Kings would jump out to a 2-0 lead in the first period with the Hounds tying it up at 2 after two periods. The third saw the Hounds take a 3-2 lead but Mexico City would tie it up just a couple of minutes later. Lewis would score his first goal in this game and earning third star of the game.

In the second game, the Kings would get off to a 2-0 lead again before Mclean Hoover II would score his first goal at 9:29 of the second with an assist going to Jeff Lewis. In the third period the Hounds would add two more goals with Jeff Lewis picking up a second assist and winning the game 3-2.

 

The Hounds currently have a record of 2-1-1 good for 5 points and tied for second with two other teams (Miami Marauders and Philadelphia Reapers) in the early going of the season. Coming up the Hounds have games against the Philadelphia Reapers (2-1-1), Ottawa Lynx (0-4-0) and Saskatoon Wild (1-3-0).

 

While the season is young, it's nice to see the Hounds doing well to start. Also good to see is Jeff Lewis with a goal and two assists in the first four games. He's nervous to start out his career but his team has been very supportive.

 

Jonny Elgar has been outstanding in net. He acknowledges the season is early still but Elgar leads the league in goals against average with a 2.46 and sits in second in the league for save percentage at .921!

 

When asked how he felt so far on his season, Lewis said "The team staff have been fantastic and my teammates are very supportive. We have a younger team and are learning new things everyday so we go out there and give it all we've got". He plans to continue to work hard on his training and plans on focusing on his overall defensive game a little while also working on his shot some more.

 

With this being his first season, Lewis has a lot to learn about the league and other players so there will definitely be an adjustment period but he's learning something new everyday!

 

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