The Sudbury Wolves are really struggling to put together a complete 60-minute effort in their first round Eastern Conference quarter-final series with the Kingston Frontenacs.

Not surprisingly, the Woofers now trail the best of seven affair three games to none following a 4-2 loss on home ice on Tuesday.

After suffering a heartbreaking 4-3 double overtime loss Sunday in Kingston, the Wolves actually displayed some resiliency in playing the Fronts even through a scoreless opening frame at home, with the deadlock very indicative of the general flow of play in the opening frame.

The same could not be said for the middle stanza.

Kingston upped the tempo, pressuring the puck in all areas of the ice and Sudbury had little to no reply.

A pair of strikes two and a half minutes apart from Matthew Soto and Cedrick Guindon came after the Frontenacs had the Wolves under siege for minutes on end, an initial sequence that led to a cross-checking penalty to Sudbury blueliner Henry Mews and the Soto powerplay goal that broke the ice.

The Wolves looked to have a chance to make a game of it when a point drive from Donovan McCoy found its way through a heap of traffic and past Kingston netminder Charlie Schenkel, narrowing the deficit to 2-1.

Any momentum the locals might have created, however, was short-lived as Maleek McGowan restored the two-goal advantage less than a minute later.

From that point on (12:18 of period two), this game never appeared to be in doubt.

Kingston added a final marker to close out the second, courtesy of Ben Pickell, with the Wolves adding a late tally from Quentin Musty on a wicked shot at 18:06 of the third with goaltender Nate Krawchuk on the bench in favour of an extra attacker.

Kingston outshot Sudbury 36-27 and will look to close out the sweep on Thursday as the teams meet again at 7:00 p.m. at the Sudbury Arena, the Wolves trying to avoid being eliminated in four straight for a second consecutive year.