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By Mat Barrett

Mustangs Defeat Bruins

Strong second period propels Mustangs to victory over Bruins

Oct 19, 2019 | 9:02 AM

It didn’t start how they wanted, but the Melfort Mustangs defeated the Estevan Bruins on Friday, Oct. 18 in Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) action as the Mustangs opened their southern road swing.

The bus legs may have gotten to Melfort early on as just 22 seconds in, a Mustang turnover led to Isaiah Thomas notching his fifth of the year. Melfort started to turn it on a bit more in the period, but Estevan got another gift later in the frame off another Mustang turnover when Jayden Davis scored to make it 2-0.

“I thought our defensive gaps, we didn’t turn a lot of pucks over, we kind of gave up the zone easily,” Head Coach Trevor Blevins said. “As indicated in our two goals, we were back in front of the net. Also, our puck management in our own zone was soft, there’s no other way to describe it.

But it was a heck of a response in the second, we were really aggresive, we had the motors going for sure, and I thought we were really physical and hard and did a good job of addressing those two things after the first period.”

It all started for Melfort on a penalty kill surprisingly as Tyson Meyers and Zach Anderson went on a two-on-one break that saw Anderson finish it off to make it 2-1. Two minutes later, a sweet passing play that went from Nolan Kadachuk, to Kenzie Arnold, and finished off by Zack Smith tied the game 2-2 just seven and a half minutes into the period. Ryley Lanthier got in on the offence later in the period to give Melfort the lead, and Tyson Meyers added on a bit later to make it 4-2. Those goals were separated by just 36 seconds.

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Estevan’s C.J. Corrazin made it 4-3 early in the third, then Anderson restored the two goal lead for Melfort. That was followed by a late Tanner Manz goal to make it 5-4, but after that, Melfort locked things down and have now gone 12 straight games without a regulation loss.

The Mustangs will look to continue that streak on Saturday, Oct. 19 in Weyburn.

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