Peterborough Petes's Regular Season Home Finale Is An Overtime Win Over the Barrie Colts

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The Petes’s regular-season home game finale sent the sold-out crowd home happy as they defeated the Barrie Colts, 5-4, in overtime at the Peterborough Memorial Centre on Thursday night.

The Petes are third in the East Division with a 38-24-1-3 record. Photo courtesy of Kenneth Andersen and the Peterborough Petes.

The visitors struck first as Teague Vader just exited the penalty box from a holding call. He immediately got a pass and scored on the breakaway for the period’s only goal.

Peterborough tied the game while on the power play as Braydon McCallum as at the doorstep but was stopped at point-blank range. He got his own rebound and buried it for a 1-1 tie less than two minutes into the period. Barrie responded 68 seconds later to regain their lead but Peterborough hung in with a goal of their own. Aidan Young tried to corral a pass from Brennan Faulker but could not get a handle on it. However, the puck tipped off Young’s stick and into the net for a 2-2 tie game. Peterborough was a man short and Barrie capitalized with a Carter Lowe goal to regain the lead. This was the fourth goal scored within the first 5:30 of the period.

Late in the frame, Peterborough not only scored once but twice. Young scored his second goal with a tip-in on the power play as James Petrovski had his point shot unimpeded and it was a 4-3 Petes lead, their first of the game.

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Only one goal occurred in the third period and it was thanks to Eamon Edgar who scored with 3:41 left in regulation and overtime was needed to settle the game.

Keiron Walton took a shot from a high-danger area but was stopped. There was a mad scramble for the puck and Petrovski won that battle with three defenders and the goaltender surrounding him. He fed the puck back to Walton, who capitalized on an out-of-position goalie and scored the walk-off game-winner for a 5-4 Petes overtime win.

The Petes travel to Kingston for one final time this regular season to take on the Frontenacs at the Slush Puppie Place on Friday night.

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