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Mark Visentin made 24 saves for his third shutout of the season as the Niagara IceDogs blanked the Mississauga St. Vernon Davis 49ers Jersey . Michaels Majors 3-0 in Ontario Hockey League action Thursday night. Visentin, who made 11 saves in the third period, had a relatively quiet night as his team played a near perfect game in front of him. The IceDogs improved to 10-9-2. Goaltender JP Anderson made 41 saves for Mississauga (11-7-4) in the loss. Elsewhere in the OHL it was: Peterborough 4 Belleville 1; Plymouth 5 Windsor 4 (OT); Kitchener 3 Sarnia 2; Barrie 5 Sudbury 3; and Saginaw 3 Brampton 2 (SO). At St. Catharines, Ont., Billy Jenkins opened the scoring for Niagara in the final minute of the second period, firing home his second goal of the season from the slot. Dougie Hamilton increased the IceDogs lead to 2-0 just 48 seconds into the third with his tenth goal of the season on a snap shot from the top of the circle on a nice cross-ice feed from David Pacan. Alex Friesen closed out the scoring with 12 seconds left in regulation time, scoring his seventh goal of the season on the power play. Petes 4 Bulls 1 At Peterborough, Ont., Joey West and Stephen Nosad each had a pair of assists as the Petes (12-7-3) beat Belleville (13-8-0). --- Whalers 5 Spitfires 4 (OT) At Windsor, Ont., Austin Levi scored the overtime winner and Matt Mahalak made 27 saves as Plymouth defeated the Spitfires. --- Rangers 3 Sting 2 At Sarnia, Ont., Tobias Rieder had a goal and an assist as Kitchener (13-6-1) edged the Sting (13-4-4). --- Colts 5 Wolves 3 At Barrie, Ont., Josh MacDonalds third-period goal held up as the winner as the Colts (9-8-3) beat Sudbury (9-9-1). --- Spirit 3 Battalion 2 (SO) At Saginaw, Mich., Vincent Trocheck scored in regulation and added the lone shootout goal, helping the Spirit (8-12-2) snap a four-game losing streak with a win over Brampton (12-6-3). Dwight Clark Jersey . It kind of breaks up the week for me and sets the stage for the upcoming week. Chris Borland Jersey . Erik Karlsson and the Ottawa Senators felt good after their 3-1 defeat of the Washington Capitals on Monday, their first back-to-back victory in 51 days and their first three-game winning streak at the Canadian Tire Centre this season.The Vancouver Canucks could be closer to naming a general manager. The team met with Boston Bruins assistant general manager Jim Benning on Wednesday about the vacant role. TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger reports that Benning is considered the frontrunner for the job. Dreger also reports that some believe that Canucks president Trevor Linden is waiting until the end of the second round of the playoffs to make an appointment. Benning, a former Canucks defenceman who spent nine seasons in the league with Vancouver and the Toronto Maple Leafs, has been an assistant with the Bruins since 2006. Bruce Ellington 49ers Jersey. Following his playing career that ended in 1990, he worked as a scout for the Anaheim Ducks and the Buffalo Sabres before a six-year run as the Sabres Director of Amateur Scouting starting in 1998. Benning won the Stanley Cup with the Bruins in 2011. The Canucks parted ways with former general manager Mike Gillis last month. ' ' '