Huskies men survive late scare to claim shootout win
Giving up a late equalizer can be hard to overcome but the Saskatchewan Huskies men’s hockey team did just that on Friday night in Winnipeg with a 4-3 shootout victory over the Manitoba Bisons.
The Huskies were in line for a regulation win but a goal by Bisons rookie Skyler Bruce with just 2.1 seconds left extended the game, and after a fairly quiet overtime period, Winnipeg product Vince Loschiavo scored the deciding goal in the third round of the shootout.
“The resiliency is great. We just can’t let our foot off the gas ever, that’s a good lesson for us to learn. But overall, we found a way to get it done,” head coach Brandin Cote said.
Saskatchewan came out flying in the first period, swarming the offensive zone and peppering Braden Holt with nine shots in the opening five minutes. But the Bisons goaltender held firm and gave his team a chance to get into the flow of the action, and Manitoba would finish a scoreless period with a 12-11 edge in the shot department.