Rangers go south in the North

It was a disappointing road trip for the Kitchener Rangers.

The Sudbury Wolves wrapped the Rangers 4-2 Sunday, sinking Kitchener to 0-3 on the weekend.

“We’re nowhere near where some of our players thought we were a week ago,” said Rangers head coach Jay McKee.

The winning goal for Sudbury took a bad bounce off a door in the Rangers end off a Logan Stanley clearing attempt, but the other two came while the Rangers were on the man-advantage.

“Our power play let us down. That comes down to our top players. You can’t give up two breakaways when we’re on the power play,” said McKee. “Sometimes when your front guys aren’t doing it, you need your goalie to step up; it’s not on them, it’s on the team.”

Maybe the lone bright spot for the Rangers was Richard Hugg scored his first goal in the league.

“It was nice to finally get it,” said Hugg, while sporting some stitches in his upper lip from the weekend. “Really felt good to get my first goal. I would have liked to have the win and me going without the goal.”

The loss to the Wolves paired with Thursday’s loss to the North Bay Battalion means Kitchener lost twice – split by an 8-2 drubbing at the hands of the Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds Friday – to the last place team at the time in the Eastern Conference of the Ontario Hockey League.

The Rangers hope to end road woes Wednesday when they travel to Owen Sound to start a home-and-home against the Attack.

“If guys need to come out of the lineup due of their play, we’ll have to break down video and look at that,” said McKee.