Despite being out-shot 24-8 after two periods, the Wayway Wolverines were in a 2-2 tie with the OCN Blizzard, before OCN's Mike Collins notched an early third period PP goal which stood up to be the winner, as the Blizzard took the Monday nighter 3-2.
Shane Goodrunning scored his 27th of the year for the Wolverines, while Dave Williams gave Wayway a 2-1 lead early in the second, but it only stood for 45 seconds.
The two teams do it all over again Tuesday night, as the Wolverines hope to salvage a split, and they need all the points they can get as they try to track down Neepawa in the Sherwood Division standings.
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Team West lost 2-1 to Team Atlantic, and finish 6th at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge.
Landon Peel will not play for Swan Valley in Tuesday's game in Portage (7:30 on GX94), after playing 6 games in 7 days with Team West.
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How good was Team Canada on Monday night??
They ran the Americans right out of the rink, en route to a 4-1 win, punching their tickets to the Gold Medal Game.
I always thought they could match the States' talent, but the question was if their goalie could make a save... and Marc Visentin was calm, and rock-solid. When only 2 goalies from all of Major Junior Hockey make team Canada, you know these guys are good... they (Visentin/Roy) just hadn't put a consistent effort together yet, until the Semis.
Jack Campbell was also phenomenal in the American crease... it could have been 7-1 easily.
Three Western Leaguers scored Canada's first three goals... Curtis Hamilton (Saskatoon), Quinton Howden (Moose Jaw) & Ryan Johansen (Portland). Windsor's Zach Kassian put the icing on the cake.
It's Canada/Russia for Gold on Wednesday night. The Russians were nearly into the relegation round, before beating the Czechs in their round robin finale, came from behind to beat the Finns in overtime in the QF's, and forced OT late again against Sweden in the semis, winning in a shootout.
I'm actually hoping for USA to beat Sweden for Bronze, just because the Swedes have been cocky since before it started, and acted like they won the Gold after beating Canada in the RR. If Canada's half as good against Russia as they were vs the States, it could be over quick.
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