By Tony Saxon, Guelph Mercury - Forget the Highway 7 rivalry.

Guelph Storm versus Kitchener Rangers games used to be 60 minutes of lots of passion, plenty of sweat and a little bit of blood. Not anymore.

Monday at the Sleeman Centre the Rangers won for the sixth time in six meetings this season, this one a 6-1 cakewalk before a sellout crowd at the Sleeman Centre.

Kitchener has outscored the Storm 30-13 over those six games, only one of which was decided by less than two goals.

“There’s no rivalry. There should be, but there’s not,” Storm coach Scott Walker said.

“It takes two teams to be a rivalry and Kitchener is holding up their end, but we sure as heck aren’t holding up our end.”

Monday’s debacle by the Storm was surprising in that it came on the heels of a huge 9-1 win over the Plymouth Whalers Saturday night in Plymouth.

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Kitchener Rangers 6 at Guelph Storm 1 - Status: Final
Monday, February 20, 2012 - Sleeman Centre

Kitchener 3 2 1 - 6
Guelph 0 0 1 - 1

1st Period-1, Kitchener, Rieder 35 (Catenacci, Thomson), 4:29. 2, Kitchener, Catenacci 22 (Rieder , Thomson), 8:54. 3, Kitchener, Thomson 10 (Rieder , Catenacci), 17:44. Penalties-Iafrate Kit (tripping), 6:07; Genovese Kit (roughing), 11:40; Thomson Kit (roughing), 11:40; Gaskin Gue (roughing), 11:40; Horvat Gue (charging, roughing), 11:40; Harpur Gue (slashing), 15:12.

2nd Period-4, Kitchener, Catenacci 23 (Murphy , Crescenzi), 4:06 (PP). 5, Kitchener, Crescenzi 21 (Rieder , Sol), 19:46. Penalties-Pedan Gue (high sticking), 3:32; Fanelli Kit (hooking), 7:04; Thomson Kit (roughing, roughing), 16:20; Dickinson Gue (roughing), 16:20; Iafrate Kit (10-min. misc.), 20:00; Watling Gue (10-min. misc.), 20:00.

3rd Period-6, Guelph, Dickinson 8   6:21. 7, Kitchener, Ming 9 (Faksa, Gilbert), 9:53. Penalties-served by Francisco Kit (too many men), 2:16; Sol Kit (fighting), 7:40; Turcotte Gue (fighting), 7:40; Sterk Kit (holding), 16:00; Bertuzzi Gue (slashing, 10-min. misc.), 17:14; Palazzese Kit (interference), 18:20.

Shots on Goal-Kitchener 15-5-10-30. Guelph 12-18-14-44.
Power Play Opportunities-Kitchener 1 / 4; Guelph 0 / 6.
Goalies-Kitchener, Palazzese 19-10-1-1 (44 shots-43 saves). Guelph, Sparks 20-21-1-2 (17 shots-13 saves); Foote 3-6-1-1 (13 shots-11 saves).
A-4,906
Referees-Jason Faist (5), Mike Pryde (33).
Linesmen-Darryl Wolfe (53), Jesse Wilmot (72).