Kingston Frontenacs GameDay October 7, 2018
The Official GameDay Magazine of the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League. Home game 3 of the 2018-19 OHL Regular Season, Barrie Colts vs. Kingston Frontenacs.
The Official GameDay Magazine of the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League. Home game 3 of the 2018-19 OHL Regular Season, Barrie Colts vs. Kingston Frontenacs.
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trailing 1-0 going into the third period. In his 3-1<br />
loss to Niagara last Friday, <strong>Kingston</strong> was again down<br />
by just one goal heading into the last period.<br />
During the <strong>Frontenacs</strong> opening night 5-2 win<br />
over Oshawa on September 21, Bonello shutout the<br />
Generals in the first period.<br />
The only slow start he’s had so far this season was<br />
his last game in Mississauga against the Steelheads<br />
on Sunday, where two of the three he allowed were<br />
first period goals in a 4-1 loss.<br />
Despite Bonello’s one win and three loss record<br />
so far this season he sports a goals against average<br />
of 3.03. and a save percentage of .915, good for<br />
10th in the league.<br />
“I think it’s been a good start so far on a personal<br />
level,” Bonello said after practice on Wednesday.<br />
“The team success is going to come later on, I think<br />
we haven’t played to the standard we wanted to but<br />
I think it’s all a learning curve right now and I think<br />
soon enough it will come and we’ll be hitting our<br />
stride.”<br />
Last season with the <strong>Frontenacs</strong> Bonello, 19,<br />
from Mississauga, only got into parts of 11 games<br />
behind starter Jeremy Helvig.<br />
He had come to <strong>Kingston</strong> last season after a<br />
trade from Saginaw.<br />
Bonello said he worked hard over the summer<br />
reducing his body fat and adding muscle while<br />
maintaining the same weight as last year knowing<br />
he’d probably get most of the playing time this<br />
season.<br />
He also refined his game over the summer<br />
months.<br />
“I worked with our <strong>Kingston</strong> goalie coaches<br />
[David and Marco Franco] in Toronto all summer<br />
long and I think that helped.”<br />
<strong>Frontenacs</strong> coach Kurtis Foster said both goalies<br />
have been playing great so far this season.<br />
“Brendan Bonello has come in and shown us<br />
he’s a capable guy in this league,” he said. “I think<br />
the last couple of years for him were trying and he<br />
didn’t get the opportunity he was looking for and this<br />
year he’s earned everything he’s got.”<br />
Foster called Dugas’ shutout “an amazing<br />
achievement.”<br />
“We played a solid game in front of him and<br />
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sometimes when you have a younger kid going in<br />
everybody wants to see him get the win so everybody<br />
worked a little harder that night.”<br />
Foster said the coaching staff hasn’t decided who<br />
will play this weekend or if the duties will be shared.<br />
“We’ll see what gives us the best chance to<br />
win this weekend but I think at the end of the day<br />
probably both deserve to get a chance.”<br />
Foster also can’t say yet how the playing time will<br />
be divided up this season.<br />
“Right now as you can see from the way it’s been<br />
that Brandon’s got the bulk of the work so far and<br />
mostly because he’s earned it and he’s been able to<br />
play strong games which has helped us and Ryan<br />
is going to get his chance and if he continues to<br />
play that way he’s going to make the decision hard<br />
on me.”<br />
Dugas was selected in the fourth round of the<br />
2017 OHL Priority Selection and spent last season<br />
close to his Hamilton home with the Ancaster<br />
Avalanche in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey<br />
League where he put up good numbers including<br />
a 2.01 goals against average in the regular season<br />
and a 1.50 average in nine playoff games.<br />
Dugas said playing on a junior team close to<br />
home as a 16-year-old was a good transition to<br />
playing for the <strong>Frontenacs</strong> this year.<br />
“The main thing playing junior last year and<br />
getting sent down was getting adjusted to playing<br />
with older guys, playing 20 minute periods, having<br />
intermissions between every period, having the<br />
warmup before every game and coming back in the<br />
dressing room.<br />
“It’s a big difference from minor hockey as<br />
especially being a goalie I have a lot of things I have<br />
to do and there’s a whole new routine.”<br />
Dugas said his parents were in the stands in Erie<br />
to see his shutout.<br />
“My mom was crying, my dad was almost crying.”<br />
They were really proud of me and really happy.”<br />
“It was definitely something I’ll never forget.”<br />
For full coverage of the <strong>Kingston</strong> <strong>Frontenacs</strong> read The <strong>Kingston</strong><br />
Whig-Standard’s home edition or read it online at www.thewhig.com<br />
© <strong>2018</strong> The <strong>Kingston</strong> Whig-Standard. This article was originally<br />
published in The <strong>Kingston</strong> Whig-Standard. Reprinted with permission.<br />
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