Mustangs, Hawks suffer game-three road losses
The Melfort Mustangs trail their Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League quarter-final series two games to one after a 4-1 Broncos win in Humboldt Tuesday.
After a split of the first two games in Melfort on the weekend, the best-of-seven series shifted to the Elgar Petersen Arena for games three and four. The opening period was scoreless, but the Broncos took the lead early in the second period. Mustangs’ defenseman Tyler Heidt scored with 30 seconds left in the second, tying the game at 1-1.
Humboldt scored three times in the third period, including an empty-netter with 31 seconds remaining to cap off the scoring. Heidt said the third period wasn’t the whole issue for the team.
“I think we had a tough start tonight, and it carried on from there,” he told northeastNOW after the loss. “We didn’t bring our game from puck drop, and that can’t happen in a playoff game.”