Prince George Cougars' remarkable season ends in double overtime

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Josh Davies scores series winner, Portland Winterhawks advance to WHL final

Josh Davies ended the Cats’ terrific season 5:40 into double overtime with a gut-wrenching shot from 40 feet out, sending the Portland Winterhawks to the WHL championship series with a 2-1 victory in Game 6 of the Western Conference championship Monday at CN Centre.

The Winterhawks will now await the winner of the Saskatoon Blades-Moose Jaw Warriors series to determine who they will be playing in the next round. The Cougar coaching staff was already heading into the locker room when video goal judge Lance Van Helvoirt confirmed Danielson’s shot had indeed crossed the goal line. He got on the phone with referee Bobby Jo Love to tell him it was a good goal, giving the Hawks a 1-0 lead to take into the second intermission.

“I know there was some games where there was a spread on the score and it looked like one team was maybe winning it easier, but I don’t think through the whole series there was more than a one-goal difference between the teams,” said Johnston. “Both teams played outstanding in the series. Both teams have a core of really good players and both play a style that up-tempo and fast as you saw tonight.

If that is the case, Cougar overagers Funk, Thornton and Pauls won’t be there to see it, having now played their last junior hockey game. “That’s what’s so disappointing, and the guys really feel it, we didn’t think we were going to lose,” said Cougars head coach and general manager Mark Lamb. “It was a really good year when you get by the disappointment, which I can’t get by right now, yet. When I look back in a couple days and reflect on it, it will be a lot better but it really hurts right now.

Led by Danielson, the WHL’s player of the week, who came into Monday’s game with a goal and nine assists in the series, the ‘Hawks forced the Cougar goalie to make three saves in the opening minute.

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