North Stars one loss away from elimination after falling to Bruins 5-2
The Battlefords North Stars’ quest to stay alive in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League playoffs just got a lot more strenuous.
Already facing an uphill battle entering Monday’s action down 2-0 in their semifinal series to the Estevan Bruins, they then lost 5-2 in game three, and now face as tall a task any sports team has ever faced: the dreaded 3-0 series hole.
The toughest part? They played quite well on Monday, but still came away empty-handed.
“I thought we played our best game of the series,” North Stars head coach Brandon Heck said in the post-game interview on CJNB/CJNS. “We had a seven or eight minute lapse in the first period and then the start of the second we didn’t come out very well, but after that I thought the rest we were in control of the game.