Nathan Torchia stopped 56 of 58 shots and Jake Durham scored the overtime winner, leading Windsor to a 3-2 Game 1 win to open their best-of-three first-round series on the road against Lakehead.
After watching his team win only four times in the first 21 games of the OHL season, Windsor Spitfires general manager Bill Bowler pulled the plug on Jerrod Smith’s short tenure as head coach Monday.
Windsor Spitfires assistant coach Andy Delmore returned to the bench last weekend after he suffered a medical emergency on the ice during a practice in early December.