Wynter Cyr (Balcarres, Sask.) blasted a slapshot low to the glove side in overtime giving the DCB Lumberjacks a 5-4 win avenging Friday's 2-1 overtime loss to the North Dakota State University Bisons.
NDSU had the first and only goal of the first period when Derek Rasmussen scored his team leading 12th goal half way through the opening frame. The second period started off slow for both teams as checking was tight. The Jacks successfully killed two slashing penalties in the first half of the period and then opened the game up with three straight goals. Peyton Treichel ( Cambridge, Minn) got the Jacks on the board at 11:46. Late in the second the Bisons Zach Braasch took a slashing penalty. one of many stick penalties called in the game. The Jacks would respond on the power-play with Norweigan Daniel Nomerstad netting his second goal of the year. Immediately following the goal the Bison's Jacob Foss would be assessed an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty sending the Jacks to the power-play again. The Jacks would take advantage just 57 seconds later as Bottineau native Austyn Lorenz would pot his first goal of the year putting the Jacks up 3-1. The second period ended with tensions building on both sides as eight stick penalties had already been assessed to this point in the game.
The third period was all Bisons. Lorenz would pick up a slashing penalty just 56 seconds into the period sending the Bisons to the power-play. Riley Fischer would pull the Bisons within one as he converted a Chase Gurniak pass to make the score 3-2 Jacks. Tyrell Pompu (Carrot River, Sask.) would score what would seem like a big insurance goal for DCB with just 7:43 left in the game, putting the Jacks up 4-2. At 12:31 of the period Riley Nemec of the Bisons and Logan Robinson (Minnedosa, Manitoba) of the Jacks got into a scuffle with Robinson coming out of it with an extra minor and a 10 minute misconduct, putting the Bisons on the power-play. The lack of discipline would be costly as the Bison's Gurniak would pull NDSU within one at the 13:42 mark. The Bison's would tie it at 4 just 2:32 seconds later on Rasmussen's 13th of the season. The Jacks lack of discipline, another slashing penalty, would put the Bison's on the PP again with just two minutes left. DCB would successfully kill the pnalty as the horn sounded to send the game to extra time, setting the stage for Cyr's heroics!
With just over three minutes left in overtime Blake Carpenter (Slave Lake, Alberta) would line-up for the face-off in the Bisons end to the right of the NDSU goaltender. A right handed shot his plan was to draw the puck back to the right point where Cyr was waiting. He won the faceoff cleanly. Cyr took a second to set the puck and ripped a low slapshot past the pads of Bison goaltender Jordan Elliot sending the team onto the ice in celebration. It was Cyr's first goal of the season and Carpenter's team leading 6th point.
Elliot and Jacks goaltender Jay Pringle where solid in the pipes with both tenders facing 47 shots. Pringle just stopped one more!
Pringle has been the goalie of choice so far this year for coach Travis Rybchinski, playing all four games so far in the young season. He sports a 2.92 goals aginst average and a solid .930 save percentage. Carpenter is the top point getter so far with 6 while Pompu has found the net the most with 3 goals.
The Jacks will get their biggest challenge of the young season this Friday, November 2nd when they host the University of Mary (17-1) Game time is 7:00pm at the Lumberdome.