Peterborough Lakers Complete the Comeback With Overtime Hat-Trick Goal Over Brampton Excelsiors

The Peterborough Lakers, thanks to Joe Resetarits’s hat-trick goal, got a walk-off score in overtime for the comeback win against the Brampton Excelsiors, 10-9, at the Brampton Memorial Arena on Thursday night.

Photo courtesy of Anna Taylor and the Peterborough Lakers.

The Lakers were in a 3-0 deficit, allowing three powerplay goals to open the period. Carter Page was the only goal-scorer for the Lakers, late in the period for a 3-1 game after the first.

After allowing the first goal of the second, the Lakers went on a three-goal run with Brad McCulley, Matt Gilray and Dustyn Birkhof scoring for Peterborough to tie the game at four. Brampton had a three-goal run to restore their three-goal lead. Austin Hasen scored a last-minute goal to make it 7-5 going into the final frame.

For the third-straight time, the Excelsiors opened the period’s scoring. The Lakers had another three-goal run with Taite Cattoni and Resetarits getting their first and Hasen tacking on his second of the game to tie things up. Brampton pulled away again, scoring halfway through the period but Resetarits responded with his second goal on the powerplay for a tie game as it went into overtime.

The Lakers were on the overtime’s only powerplay thanks to a holding call and Resetarits capitalized. The Lakers cycled the ball before Resetarits rifled the ball through, far side, while in the high slot, right of the goaltender, for the hat trick and walk-off win. “We’ve all been in these games before; we just had to gut it out. They played a great game again,” Resetarits said, referencing the Lakers’ slim 6-5 win over Brampton two weeks ago in Peterborough.

“(Riley) Hutchcraft played another great game,” said Resetarits. “They’re fast, they put the pressure on us and they capitalized on their power (play). We kept our composure as much as we could for those first two periods, lot of veteran players been in these situations in NLL, summer, so the experience took over.”

The Lakers return to action for a rematch with the Oakville Rock on the road this Monday.      

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