Hard fought game sees Stars fall in extra time

Just inside the offensive blue line, Urbanski pulled up to throw a pass to his right, onto the stick of a blazing Sinclair. Upon receiving the pass, the crafty veteran, Sinclair, then proceeded to sting a pass to a streaking Gil driving the far-side post, hitting the Torrance, California native just at the perfect moment for a deflection up and over the goaltender’s pad, and into the back of the net.

Eleven seconds was all it took, and just like that, the score was 1-0 North Stars. For Gil, the tally marked his fifth goal of the season and third in his last two games.

With Kindersley eager to try and get their fans back engaged and some Richter-scale hits being doled out on both ends, the physicality and chippy nature of the night’s contest would come to a head not quite six minutes into the first.

Finally, after vigorous, and quite animated discussion between the two benches, all the animosity would boil over in the form of a fight. In the left corner, it was Saskatoon’s Kaden Boser, weighing in at 6-foot-1, 193 pounds; and in the right, Okotoks, Alberta’s own, Tyson Laduke standing at 5’11, 165.

After getting his fill of right hand punches to the side of the face, served with a smile courtesy of Boser, Laduke was escorted to the locker room, as was his willing combatant, leaving their respective teams short a man, but energized from the tilt.

The score would remain a one-goal contest until, with just under four minutes left in the first period, the home-side would answer back with a Klipper goal, courtesy of Josh Fletcher.

Fletcher’s marker came after Kindersley captain, Cameron Sharrock found the forward lurking in the weeds out front of the North Stars’ net, feeding him for the bang-bang play, leaving no chance for the Stars’ goaltender.

The first period would end 1-1.

After a scoreless second period, the North Stars would once again be the ones to pull ahead in the third, when Matthias Urbanski would find Stars’ defenseman Cody Spagrud as the high-man on a 3-on-1 rush, with the captain capitalizing to notch his third goal of the season.

With the seconds winding down on the clock and time about to expire in regulation, the home side made one last-ditch effort with the goalie out to tie. With the crowd behind them and with the perfect storm on a jam play in tight, Tyler Traptow was the man to play hero, tying the game up with just 17.5 seconds to go.

After five minutes of 3-on-3 overtime solved nothing, the two sides went to the shootout to decide things.

In the penalty-shot relay it was Caden Benson scoring early and eventually Austin Nault to seal it late on the game winner that solidified the game’s outcome; ultimately going down as a 3-2 shootout win for the Klippers.

For the North Stars, goaltender Adam Dmyterko made 44 saves on the 46 shots he faced in only his second SJHL start.

The North Stars will now shift their focus to this weekend, hoping to get back on the winning track at home against another division-rival in Notre Dame on Friday. Pregame on the action will start at 7:15 p.m. with puck drop to follow at 7:30 p.m. on 1050 CJNB.

Scoring summary

First period:

0:11 BAT Ryan Gil (5) ASST: MacGregor Sinclair (14), Matthias Urbanski (10)

16:20 KIN Josh Fletcher (6) ASST: Cameron Shorrock (2)

Second period:

No scoring.

Third period:

4:14 BAT Cody Spagrud (3) ASST: Matthias Urbanski (11)

19;43 KIN Tyler Traptow (6) ASST: None

Overtime:

No scoring.

Shootout:

A. Becker BAT – No goal

Caden Benson KIN – Goal

Brett Gammer – No goal

Blake Kleiner – No goal

MacGregor Sinclair – Goal

Austin Nault – Goal (GWG)**

Martin.Martinson@jpbg.ca

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by Martin Martinson

Hard fought game sees Stars fall in extra time

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