First off thank you to the Dochylo's for the birthday cake. In case you're wondering it's a chocolate coffee style and was very delicious.
After the Bruins only registered 10 shots in their loss to Yorkton, the Bruins turned around and piled 59 shots on the Klipper's Justin McDonald in a 3-2 shootout win.
Calder Neufeld opened the scoring for the Bruins, but Austin McDonald would tie the game a few minutes later.
In the third period, the Klippers would get the lead as Justin Lund deflected a shot past the Bruins Tyler Ross with just over 6 minutes left. With the McDonald standing on his head for the Klippers, you couldn't blame the Bruins if they were starting to get frustrated and wonder if they were ever going to beat McDonald.
But at the 2:40 mark, Tanner Froese stole a pass from McDonald and snuck it past him to tie the game up.
In the shootout, Kindersley had a 1-0 edge before Froese would tie the shootout up with a deke to his backhand. After a Kindersley miss, Neufeld pulled off the same move he used in Battlefords last Friday, he skated straight ahead with plenty of speed, stopped at hash marks and buried top shelf past McDonald.
The Bruins faithful would go home happy as Ross would stop the Klippers Colby Daniels in the final round of the shootout, afterwards Ross celebrated the win by Tebowing.
It was a nice turnaround for the Bruins after a pair of losses, the Neufeld-Smith-Olson had so many chances to score last night. After being split apart for the most part these last few weeks it seems like the three are hitting their strides once again as we head to the playoffs after playing the full game together.
The line of Ben Johnstone-Tanner Froese-Dayton Picard had a really strong game for Estevan. Picard didn't look out of place in his second game with the Bruins (first one was Nov.15 in Notre Dame) Johnstone was hitting everything in a blue jersey last night and Froese scoring two clutch goals. The Bruins are going to need some secondary scoring from players like Froese and Johnstone if they are going to make any kind of playoff run and last night it was that line who stepped up for the Bruins. Plenty of local talent on that line as well with Carlyle (Johnstone) Stoughton (Picard) Estevan (Froese) represented.
Austin Yano left the game in the first period with an upper body, his status is up in the air as of right now.
The Bruins are back at it tonight when they meet the Humboldt Broncos, if the Bruins would get a win tonight, they would win the season series with the RBC Cup hosts. You can catch the game on CJ1280 and discoverestevan.com beginning at 7:20.
Just below I'm posting the final four shooters from last night's shootout.
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