Bedard Late Goals Makes Providence A Winner

Brett Beard (Providence College)

Brett Berard sent his Providence Friars off onto their holiday break when he scored with just 39 seconds remaining in regulation to give the Friars a 3-2 win over the Princeton Tigers. The Friars who trailed for most of the game scored twice off a major penalty to first tie then take the lead in the game's last 1:45.

Berard deflects a point shot past Princeton's goalie for his team-leading 12th goal. It was part of Berard's five shots for the game along with a roughing minor for the sophomore. 

Providence's leading scorer Berard ends his first half 12-12-24 which are career highs and is tied for sixth in the NCAA scoring race. Of Berards 12 goals, four have been game-winners which is second best in the NCAAs.

Now Berard heads off to join Team USA's World Under-20 selection camp as well as the 2022 World Under-20 Championship. He will be looking to win his second straight Under-20 gold medal.

Ryder Korczak broke a six-game goalless streak with an empty-net goal to clinch a 4-2 win for his Moose Jaw Warriors over the visiting Swift Current Broncos. Scoring just his second goal in his last 14 games, the Warriors center fired a puck from the right face-off circle in his own defensive zone into the empty net as the Warriors bounce back to the 5oo mark at 13-13-1-1.

Korczak also had a secondary assist to give himself a 1-1-2 evening along with a +1 on one shot while going a very good 19-6 on his faceoffs. The young center improved his season totals to 8-20-28 in 28 games.

Brody Lamb ended a ten-game goalless streak with his fourth goal of the season as his Green Bay Gamblers defeated the Madison Capitols 6-2. Lamb scored the Gambler's fifth goal of the game at 15:04 of the third scoring the "dagger "goal after Madison had scored to make it 4-2.     

       

We don't get to hear much about the Rangers 2021 fourth-round pick but he was the Gambler's third line right wing and he was credited with four shots and a +1. Lamb is 4-6-10 in 21 games for the Gamblers and we know that next year he is heading to play for the Minnesota Golden Gophers at the NCAA level. 

The game's second star Brennan Othmann recorded his team best 19th goal of the season but it wasn't enough to prevent the Owen Sound Attack from beating Othmann's Flint Firebirds 4-3. In Othmann's last 10 games he has recorded 9-11-20 and he has goals in his last three games. 

One does not need a description for how Othmann scored as it is pretty much the same thing, Othmann attacks the net, teammate hit him with a pass in the slot area and Othmann finishes the play. Maybe the best way to describe a Brennan Othmann goal is to say think Adam Grave in his 50 goal season. 

Othman now has goals in three straight games, he is 19-17-36 in 23 games, a pace that has him scoring 56 goals if he maintains this pace. He is 8th in OHL scoring, fifth in goals and second in shots on goal.

6'8 Matthew Rempe and his Seattle Thunderbirds took on 6'7.5 Talyn Boyko's Kelowna Rockets and it was an interesting matchup to say the least. Rempe who got into a fight with 6'1 Mark Liwiski with the game barely two minutes old. 

Boyko got the start for Kelowna but even after a good first period, he looked really tired and didn't have a lot in the tank. He stopped all 10 shots that he faced in the first period but gave up two goals in the second on 12 shots. 

The first goal Boyko gave up was on the power play as Seattle crashed the net and put in a rebound. The second was at even strength and Boyko was beaten on his glove side, he was slow getting over.

In the third, Boyko never had a chance on Seattle's third goal as two Seattle and one Kelowna player screened Boyko. Kelowna would score twice and on their fourth goal, Kelowna got help from Rempe who totally screened out his own goalie to allow Kelowna to regain the lead at 4-3. 

The lead was very short-lived as 17 seconds after Kelowna scored, Seattle would respond tying the score at 4-4 as once again Boyko was the victim of a really good screen set up by Seattle. Seattle then used a "2-on-1" breakaway to score as Boyko was beaten on his glove side by Mekai Sanders for the game winner. 

That is a goal that Boyko should have had stopped as he finished 31 out of 36 as his record falls to 6-10-0-1 with a 3.48 goals against and a 0.902 save percentage. Boyko is winless in his last three starts 0-2-0-1. 

As for Rempe, he didn't score but in many ways he showed what he and his bid body can do. Besides fighting, Rempe took five shots on goal, he was active and attacking the net even carrying the puck. Toss in that Rempe screened both his own goalie and Boyko on goals and that wide body if developed could become a factor. Rempe also to his credit will go down to block shots. 

Jayden Grubbe and his Red Deer Rebels lost to the Medicine Hat Tigers 4-3 via the shootout. Call this one embarrassing as Medicine Hat got to end a 16-game winless streak as they last one on October 22nd. 

Grubbe had a secondary assist to end a scoring drought of eight games but he has a goal scoring drought of 13 games with his last goal coming on November 5th. He has been dropped to the third line center spot going 10-7 on faceoffs and taking only one shot. 

For the season Grubbe is 5-8-13.

Evan Vierling was scoreless on five shots with a -1 and was 10-9 on faceoffs as his Barrie Colts earned a 3-2 shootout win over the North Bay Battalion. Vierling is 7-9-16 on the season.

Simon Kjellberg was scoreless with a -2 on just one shot as his Rensselaer Engineers got shutout by the Alaska Nanooks 4-0. Another one that someone call embarrassing as this was just the second win of the season for Alaska who improved to 2-12 while Rensselaer enters their holiday break 8-9-2.