Matteo Danis scored the game-winning goal at 1:22 of overtime in Game 3 on Tuesday night, as the Prince George Cougars beat Kelowna 4-3.
put in a game effort on Tuesday night. Yet it wasn’t enough, and now they’re down to their last strike.
Prince George now leads the best-of-seven series 3-0 and can eliminate the Rockets with a victory in Game 4 on Wednesday night in Kelowna.“You work so hard and it’s a game of inches. You take a half-a-second off on the backcheck and it’s in the back of your net. It’s tough because our guys competed, they played.”
The Rockets were outclassed by the Cougars in games 1 and 2 in Prince George, with the nation’s No. 1 team winning 4-0 and 5-0.However, the Rockets went 0-for-5 on the power play, while the Cougars were 2-for-4 – a telling sign of separation.“We had chances, we had 18 shots on net in the first period. We had opportunities that they were blocking and sacrificing.“It was a lot different than what it was up in Prince George, where our power play couldn’t gain any traction.
Ethan Neutens, Michael Cicek and captain Gabriel Szturc, who made it 3-3 at 14:08 of the third, replied for Kelowna, which hit two posts in the final five minutes. Joshua Ravensbergen made 32 saves for the Cougars, with Jari Kykkanen stopping 29 shots for the Rockets.“It was a roller-coaster of a game,” Danis said on the team’s website. “Really close, just back-and-forth. Our special teams were huge tonight, scoring two.“It just came down to . It was a playoff game and we were lucky we got out of it on top.”“We did a lot of really good things today, our compete, our sacrifice,” Mallette said.“We have to take that same mindset into tomorrow.
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