Six Nations came into town and made a statement early. They scored the first three goals of the period in 3:01 thanks to Ben McIntosh, Liam Leclair, and Larson Sundown.
It took the powerplay to get Peterborough on the board as Eli McLaughlin scored his team-leading 13th goal of the playoffs to make it a 3-1 game.
The teams kept trading goals until the end of the period including Taite Cattoni’s fifth of the playoffs for the Lakers as Peterborough found themselves trailing 5-2 after the first.
The second period saw even scoring from both sides with Six Nations striking first with a pair of goals from Brendan Bomberry on the power play and Eric Fannell.
Peterborough scored a pair of goals as Kiel Matisz tried to turn the momentum with a shorthanded goal. Cattoni got his second goal of the game and the lead margin remained the same with three at the end of the period, 7-4.
The Lakers were first to strike in the third period as Thomas Hoggarth opened things up less than five minutes into the frame. Six Nations kept matching goals with Peterborough and easily kept up.
The period’s first four goals were alternated between teams. However, after Six Nations scored their second goal of the period, they ran away with the game, scoring another pair of goals including a power play goal from league MVP Lyle Thompson.
The Chiefs walked out of Peterborough with an 11-6 win and extend their series lead 2-0 in a best-of-seven. This is a familiar position the Lakers have found themselves in at the 2019 MSL finals and last year’s Mann Cup championship.
“Nobody wants to see us win a fifth Mann Cup,” said Cattoni. “This is a veteran group. We’ve won four Mann Cups. We were down 2-0 in the Mann Cup last year. We have complete belief that we can get back again.”
The Lakers are going to try and avoid a three-game series deficit as they head to the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena for Game Three on Monday.
