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The Nelson Leafs bounced back from Friday’s loss with a 5-2 victory over the Grand Forks Border Bruins Saturday night.
The win came after a tragic overtime loss to the Princeton Posse.
“We showed a lot of grit coming back and a lot of teamwork… in that way we look at it in a positive light and said hey guys, it wasn’t a bad game, we fought hard it was just a bad bounce at one end and we came out tonight to get revenge, get the two points and put us back up in the standings,” said Leafs’ defenseman Jonathon Petrash.
The Leafs opened the game dominating the Border Bruins and maintained possession for the greater part of the period.
In the latter half of the first period, the Leafs’ hard work paid off putting their first up on the boards at the seven minute mark from just inside the blue line from the stick of Eric Spring.
Cameron Dobransky added one of his own to the scoreboard after receiving a centering pass from Carson Willians just minutes later.
The Border Bruins started the second period trying to force a goal, but were unable to get set up in the Leafs zone until they received a brief break from the Nelson defense during a powerplay at the 10:47 mark for Mitchell Nishimura to tip one in and put Grand Forks back in the game.
Grand Forks began to pull their game together after their goal, but that wasn’t enough to keep Dallon Stoddart from adding yet another point to the Leafs’ collection for a 3-1 lead going into the third period.
The Leafs looked to put the nail in the coffin at the beginning of the final period with JJ Beitel firing another goal unassisted on a breakaway just 30 seconds into the period.
Grand Forks fired on all cylinders attempting to even the score, but Leafs goalkeeper Patrick Defoe was solid making a huge sprawled out save in the last few minutes of the game.
Finally, with Grand Forks on a power play, Austin Lee received a pass off of a faceoff and put the last goal up on the boards for Grand Forks making the final score 5-3 for the Leafs.
The Leafs battle the Fernie Ghostriders next Saturday at the Nelson Community Complex.
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