AAA Stars collapse vs. Blackhawks, fall in OT
The AAA Stars had the game in their hands on Thursday night at home and let it slip away.
Late in the game, they held a 5-3 lead over the Beardy’s Blackhawks and appeared set to snap a four-game slide. But the Blackhawks scored a pair of goals in the final two minutes and then again in extra time to win the game 6-5 in overtime thanks to a goal from Jaxon White.
“We’ve got to be willing to stick to the game plan for 60 minutes and not vary from it if we get up by a couple,” Stars head coach Jean Fauchon said after the loss, the team’s fifth in a row. “[We need to] do the little things, like getting pucks deep. We had a couple of turnovers at our blue-line that resulted in odd man rushes or breakaways and they put them in the net. They buried them. We can’t have that. Pucks have got to get deep.”
The third period was absolutely dominated by the visitors, who outshot the Stars 29-8 and scored three unanswered goals. The game-tying goal was scored with just 3.6 seconds left on the clock by Billy Trarback.