North Stars blow late lead; fall in overtime to Bruins
The Battlefords North Stars had a 3-2 lead with five minutes to go in the third period of Saturday’s home game against the Estevan Bruins, but they couldn’t hold on.
Matthew Chekay tipped in a Nolan Ferguson point shot with 4:18 to go in the third to force overtime and Zach Goberis lifted a backhander over Taryn Kotchorek’s glove 1:59 into the extra frame to give the visitors a 4-3 overtime win.
“They took it to us. They outplayed us. Their d-zone was a lot cleaner than ours,” North Stars head coach Brandon Heck said following the team’s first loss of 2017-18. “They wanted to make plays in the d-zone and play in our end. We weren”t willing to sacrifice and we didn’t have enough guys that wanted to be difference makers.”
Heck was upset with the number of turnovers over the course of the game.