Peterborough Petes Cough Up Four Unanswered Goals In 6-4 Loss to Sudbury Wolves

The Peterborough Petes allowed four unanswered goals from the Sudbury Wolves resulting in a 6-4 loss on Diabetes Night at the Peterborough Memorial Centre on Thursday.

Photo courtesy of Kenneth Andersen Photography and the Peterborough Petes.

Petes’ Tommy Purdeller wasted no time and scored four minutes into the game. The lead lasted for nine seconds as Evan Konyen scored his fifth goal of the season to tie the game at one. Sahil Panwar made it 2-1 to give Peterborough the lead into the second.

David Goyette tied the game up for Sudbury four minutes into the second. Three minutes later, Purdeller scored his second of the game for a 3-2 Petes lead. Connor Lockhart extended the lead and gave Peterborough an insurance goal to make it 4-2. The Wolves quickly countered 31 seconds later to cut into the lead 4-3 with a Nick DeGrazia goal heading into the third.

Konyen scored again, 3:58 into the period to tie the game at 4-4. He scored again, netting the hat trick, giving Sudbury their first lead of the game. Alex Pharand gave the Wolves an insurance goal two minutes later and never looked back for the 6-4 win.

Diabetes Night was a personal initiative brought forth by Petes’ goaltender Michael Simpson (where you can donate online) who has had Type-1 diabetes since he was three. The Petes in partnership with Tandem Diabetes Care raised $7,869 on the night to send local children to Diabetes Canada D-Camps.

The Petes will travel to Oshawa Friday night to take on the rival Generals for the second time in two weeks.

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