In a tight contest where the TS&M bantam AA Bruins traded goals with their opponent for much of the evening, a late score in the final minute of the third period wasn’t enough to propel the Bruins to victory.
Hosting the Saskatoon Outlaws at Affinity Place on Saturday evening, the Bruins were unable to close the deficit and finished the game on the losing end of the 5-4 score.
The Bruins are now .500 through 12 games and sit in fifth place in the South Division of the Saskatchewan Bantam AA Hockey League.
The Bruins got behind early in the game when the Outlaws’ Brodie Girod got the road team up less than three minutes into the opening frame. Jagger Prosofsky stretched that lead to two goals with a power play tally near the end of the first.
In the second period, the Bruins didn’t waste time turning their fortunes around when just 24 seconds in, Colton Schell cut the lead in half with a goal assisted by Mason Strutt. Dawson Schaff then tied the game at two with an unassisted marker near the midway point of the game.
Before the period ended, the Bruins fell back into a deficit when Tristan Shewchuk got the lead back for Saskatoon before heading into the third period up a goal.
Early in the final period the Bruins’ Cole Fonstad went off for a high-sticking penalty, and on the ensuing power play the Outlaws got their two-goal lead back. Layne Schroeder potted the power play marker less than three minutes into the period.
Fonstad had a moment of redemption just four minutes later when he brought the Bruins back to within one. Assists went to Ryder Pierson and Daymon Wanner.
Again the Outlaws recorded an insurance marker, when a goal by Christian Albertson gave them a two-goal cushion with less than seven minutes to play.
Battling back in the dying seconds, Hayden Cutler scored a goal assisted by Fonstad and Pierson, but with the remaining 53 seconds on the clock the black and gold were unable to tie the game.
Final shots were 31-17 favouring the Bruins, and Callum Spearing was in goal for the loss.
The TS&M Bruins’ next action is on Saturday at Affinity Place. They host the Battlefords Barons at 5:15 p.m.
