The 1st Place Melville Millionaires pulled another rabbit out of their hat on Tuesday night as they come back from 4-2 down in the latter stages of the 3rd period, to beat the hometown Estevan Bruins 5-4 in the shootout.
The Mils would open the scoring on the power play just 9:54 into the 1st period when Simon Genereux would send a nice pass back door and Eric Meyer would make no mistake for his 6th goal of the season to give the Mils an early 1-0 lead. But just shortly after the Bruins would even it up at 1-1 as Nick Egan's long shot from the point would some how hit the back of the net behind goaltender Isaiah Plett for his 4th of the season to make it even at 1-1 after 1 period of play.
The game would stay tied until the 9:41 mark of the 2nd period as he would take a nice breakaway feed shorthanded from Sam Williams and go forehand, backhand past Matt Gibney for his 9th of the season to give the Mils a 2-1 lead. But the Bruins would come right back just 59 seconds later on the powerplay as David Robertson's one timer would beat Plett for his 5th to even the game back up at 2-2. Then just 6:08 later, the Bruins would get their first lead of the night as Keagan Allison would finish off a mad scramble in front for his 9th of the year to give the Bruins a 3-2 lead after 40 minutes of play.
The Bruins would take a two goal lead just before the halfway mark the 3rd period, as former Millionaire Michael Sagen would go top shelf on Plett for his 14th to make it 4-2 Bruins. The Mils though would start their comeback with 5:27 left in the 3rd as Kelvin Walz would take a nice feed from below the goal line from Colin Mospanchuk and make no mistake for his 19th goal of the season to cut the lead to 4-3. Then with 2:45 remaining, Kilback would get slashed down and the Bruins' would go to the box, and just 40 seconds into that powerplay, Alec Brandrup hard one timer would beat Matt Gibney for his 6th to tie it up at 4-4.
Overtime would solve nothing, but the Bruins did have a powerplay which they couldn't convert on.
Then in the shootout, the first 9 shooter between two teams would all miss until the Colin Mospanchuk ( pictured above ) would end it as he would go five hole on Gibney to give the Mils a 5-4 shootout victory and their 3rd straight win.
The Mils powerplay was very good once again converting on 2 of their 3 chances on the night, while the number 1 ranked Bruins powerplay was 1/7.
Isaiah Plett stopped 44 of 48 shots for the win while Matt Gibney turned aside 40 shots in a losing cause.
The Mils now sit 4 points clear of the Yorkton Terriers for top spot in the Viterra Division and the SJHL and their next action will be on Friday night when they take on the Notre Dame Hounds at 7:30 in a neutral site game in Fort Qu'Appelle before returning home on Saturday night to host the Humboldt Broncos.
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Also in the SJHL,
The Yorkton Terriers won their 3rd straight in big time fashion as they dumped the Flin Flon Bombers 6-1.
Tayler Thompson led the way with 1G 2A, while Foam Lake's Zack Zadarozniak scored a couple of goals. Cortlan Procter, Tyler Giebel and Matthew Cox also scored for the Terriers.
Riley Medves turned aside 19 of 20 shots for the win.
Terriers next action will be Friday when they host the Humboldt Broncos at the FAA. Pregame 7:20, pxp at 7:30 on Gx94.