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Pens-Blazers go to OT for a 3rd time
The East Hants Penguins and Sackville Blazers continued their fierce rivalry in Lantz Friday night and for the third consecutive time this season, the Pens won in sudden-death overtime. This time it was a 4-3 win after earlier 5-4 and 6-5 wins. Hayden Tamm for the second time in three games between the teams scored the overtime winner, this one coming with 1:35 left. Lawson Cook started the game’s scoring with a first period goal for the Blazers. It stayed 1-0 until Morgan Lake tied it at 1-1 for the Penguins in the second. The teams exchanged power-play goals before the middle frame ended as Justin Hardie connected for the Blazers and Noah Comeau for East Hants. Only 58 seconds had exited in the third period when Davis Cooper put the Penguins up 3-2 but Degen Noble came back to tie it for the Blazers to send the game into extra time resulting in Tamm’s overtime winner. Marcus Pettipas and Ben Etsell both were very impressive in nets for their respective teams as Pettipas blocked 38 of 41 shots for East Hants and Etsell 37 of 41 for the Blazers. The Penguins improved to 12-3-0 for 24 points and continued to stay in front of the Colts and Blazers in the Fox Division. Sackville is now 7-3-3 for 17 points.
Port Hawkesbury 12 Valley Maple Leafs 4
The Strait won for the eleventh time this season against six losses as they easily rolled over the Valley Maple Leafs 12-4 on home ice. Somewhat disappointing result for the Leafs who had really started to show some improvement in recent games, losing their last few by a single goal including one in overtime against Pictou. The teams were tied 1-1 after twenty minutes Friday but the rest was history as the Strait scored five times in the second and six more in the third. Cadyn Power and Danny Gillis both had hat-tricks for the Strait, Gillis also added an assist. Callum McClellan scored a pair with Landon Macintosh scoring once and adding three assists and Matthew Ellis scoring once and adding two assists. Drew MacDonald and Zach Binotto rounded out the scoring for the Strait. Luke Baldwin collected a trio of assists for the Pirates. For the Maple Leafs, Jacob Gerhardt, Braden Aucoin, Nick Oickle and Jackson Welsh all scored as the Leafs fell to 3-8-1. Port Hawkesbury outshot the Valley 50-30.