Majors and Attack - bad blood continues

Here's hoping Owen Sound and Mississauga meet one more time.

The Majors beat the Attack last night 3-1, forcing Owen Sound to have to play a tie-breaker game tonight against the Kootenay Ice while the Majors will face the winner on Friday in the semi-final.

The bad blood between the Majors and the Attack that came out during the 7 game OHL final is once again on display.

The Attack have lost captain Garrett Wilson for the rest of the Memorial Cup after he suffered concussion like symptoms after taking a 1st period hit from Chris DeSousa of the Majors last night.

Owen Sound will go into an elimination game without their captain and Joey Hishon who was injured earlier in the tournament.

"He put his elbow right into his back, and his head bounces off the glass," said Owen Sound coach Mark Reeds. "Obviously it's a hit from behind. There's different rules and we just want to know how to play. If someone can fill me in that would be great."

"He was in a vulnerable spot," said Attack GM Dale DeGray.

There was no penalty on the play.

The Majors not surprisingly don't see it that way.

"There's hitting allowed in this game," said DeSousa. "It was kind of a freak accident. I think he hit his head on the glass. There can't be a suspension every time someone is hurt."

Majors caoch Dave Cameron said, "You go back to the playoffs, take my comments that I was fined $2,500 for, take the part out about the referees and I stated what I thought about that team. I'm not going to repeat it. When you win say little. When you lose say less."

After his team won game 5 of the OHL final, Cameron was critical of Owen Sound and accused them of diving.

For the Majors and Attack to meet for a 9th time in the last few weeks, Owen Sound will have to beat the Ice. Kootenay will have Brayden McNabb in the lineup and that doesn't sit well with the Attack.

It was McNabb's hit that knocked out Joey Hishon the first time these two teams met.

"Tonight he's going to run the power play, and our best power play guy will watch from his hotel room," said DeGray. "I'm not so sure that's fair."

The odds are against the Attack tonight but you just never know with this team - a team that has been counted out time and time again this season.

"We have a lot of fight in that dressing room," said DeGray.