The Sarnia Sting’s effort was there, but the result wasn’t.

After taking an early lead on a Beckham Edwards goal, the Sting were shut out for nearly 59 minutes Friday in a 3-1 loss to the Oshawa Generals before 3,480 at Progressive Auto Sales Arena.

“Every guy in that dressing room can look in the mirror and say, ‘I left everything I had on the ice,’” Sting head coach Alan Letang said. “We just came up short tonight.”

Goalies Evan Maillet of Sarnia and Jaden Cholette of Oshawa traded highlight-reel saves in the third period before Brooks Rogowski scored the Generals’ power-play winner with 5:22 to go.

The Sting had their own power play soon after, but couldn’t draw even.

“The third period, we had 14 scoring chances,” Letang said. “We missed the net on a few, but he (Cholette) made som

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