Sunday, February 27, 2022

Berard's OT Winner Beats The Black Bears

Brett Berard (Providence Friars)
Saturday night had two thrilling standout performances from the eight New York Ranger prospects who saw action. It was hard to pick which one was the better of the two but in the end seeing a Brett Berard carry his team to an overtime win won out.

Brett Berard had a two goal effort including a breakaway overtime game-winner as his Providence Friars finished their Hockey East regular season with a come-from-behind 3-2 overtime win over the Maine Black Bears.

With the Friars down 2-0, Berard got them on the board with his 16th goal of the season at 5:30 of the second period. The Friars would tie the game in the third period to force overtime. 

And in the overtime period, this might be the best game-winning goal of the season by a Rangers prospect. Berard goals coast-to-coast and flips a backhanded shot into the net for his 17th and a 3-2 Providence win.

Berard finishes the regular season as Providence's leading goal scorer and overall scorer with a 17-20-37 mark. The Friars now have to wait to see who they will face in the first round of the Hockey East playoffs. 

The Friars can finish no worse than seventh which means they will host an opening round contest. This year the Hockey East is having a single-elimination playoff format and Providence's only hope of a NCAA tournament invite will require them to win the Hockey East tournament.

You might forgive the Sarnia Sting if they don't want to face Brennan Othmann anymore this season. Facing Othmann for the third time in six days, Othmann save his best for last as he had a career best 1-4-5 night as his Flint Firebirds spanked the Sting 8-3. 

Over the last three games Othmann is 2-6-8 as the Firebirds extended their point streak to 11 games (9-0-1-1) with the win. Othmann got his night going with a secondary assist on the Firebirds third goal of the game at 12:10 of the second period.

After Sarnia had tied the score at 3-3, Othmann earned his second point of the night when he set up linemate Riley Piercy for the eventual game winning goal. Now on the following clip it is the second goal scored and you have to look carefully to see Othmann make a nice drop pass setting up Piercy.

That goal at 7:01 of the third period made it a 4-3 game and Othmann's third point of the night would come 51 seconds later at 8:00 when he would be credited with a secondary assist on the Firebirds fifth goal of the game.

Point number four would come on linemate Piercy's hat trick goal, a secondary assist for Othmann at 14:28 and a 6-3 Firebirds lead. Finally Othmann would cap his night with his fifth point when he scored his 35th goal of the season on a one-timer from the left of the right face-off circleat 16:45 for the Firebirds eight goal of the game.

At 35-38-73, Othmann is seventh in the OHL for points and second for goals. 

Riley Hughes and his Northeastern Huskies spotted the UConn Huskies a 2-0 lead before scoring five unanswered goals to earn a 5-2 win in Hockey East action. Hughes set up his kid brother for the game-tying goal in the third period. 

For Hughes, the assist was his 10th on the season to improve his season numbers to 2-10-12 for the junior forward. With the win, Northeastern has a chance to win the Hockey East regular season championship as they have three games left in their schedule. 

Jayden Grubbe and his Red Deer Rebels played host to the Regina Pats on Saturday looking to hold off Ryder Korczak and the Moose Jaw Warriors for third place in the WHL's Eastern Conference. The Rebels were able to comeback in the third period to earn a 6-4 win. 

Grubbe who struggled badly on his faceoffs on Friday bounced back with a 13-6 effort to go along with a secondary assist on one shot. For Grubbe the assist improved his totals to 8-14-22 as the Rebels won their fourth straight.

Talyn Boyko and his Kelowna Rockets saw three different winning streaks come to an end on Saturday after a 6-2 loss to the Kamloops Blazers. The Blazers were able to end a seven-game losing streak against the Rockets as well as a six-game losing streak to Boyko this season. 

Boyko lost for the first time in his last five starts as he gave up six goals on 38 shots as he played well in spurts but eventually Kamloops got the better of him. But Boyko did make a highlight reel worthy save in the first period.

Boyko saw his numbers drop to 21-13-2-1 with a goals against of 3.03 and a save percentage of 0.910. 

Brody Lamb was scoreless on one shot as his Green Bay Gamblers bounced back from a 11-3 beating at the hands of Team USA NTDP to earn a 3-2 shoot-out win. It was a badly needed win for the Gamblers as they try to hold on to the sixth and final playoff spot in the USHL's Eastern Conference. 

Simon Kjellberg and his Rensselaer Engineers ended their regular season with a 5-1 loss to the Harvard Crimson. Kjellberg was scoreless on two shots with a -1 as he finished his junior season with a career-best 5-17-22.

Next up for Kjellberg and his teammates is the first round of the ECAC playoffs. Rensselaer finished sixth in the ECAC and will host Dartmouth next weekend.

Did Not Play

Hugo Ollas was the backup goalie for his Merrimack Warriors in their game against New Hampshire.

Evan Vierling and his Barrie Colts saw their game against the Peterborough Petes postponed due to Covid issues with the Petes. No make-up game has been announced.

Matthew Rempe sat out the second game of his three-game suspension for his Seattle Thunderbirds. 

Dylan Garand missed his fifth game for his Kamloops Blazers as they hosted the Kelowna Rockets.

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