Deni Goure scored with eight seconds left in overtime and Landen Hookey had a three-point night, as the Owen Sound Attack clipped the Erie Otters 4-3 in Ontario Hockey League action Saturday night at Erie Insurance Arena.
Hookey scored twice for the Attack (27-27-5-3), and Sam McCue also had a goal.
Owen Sound snapped a four-game losing streak, and picked up their first road win since Jan. 21. The two points moved them into a three-way tie with the Guelph Storm (28-27-5-1) and Erie Otters (28-27-5-1) for fifth in the OHL’s Western Conference.
Dylan Edwards, Ondrej Molnar and Sam Alfano scored for the Otters, which had a three-game winning streak end.
Erie led 2-1 after the first period on goals from Edwards and Molnar, while Hookey tallied for the Attack.
It was a good position for the Otters, who were 15-0 when leading after one this season.
But the Attack would take the lead in the second. Hookey scored his second of the game at 17:39, depositing a rebound after a Ben Cormier rush to the net. And then it was Hookey again, this time as the setup man on the go-ahead goal with 33 seconds left in the second. He had the puck on the right-wing in the offensive zone and zipped a pass out front. McCue chipped it past Ethan Fraser to make it 3-2.
The Otters tied it with 5:41 to go in the third. After a couple of saves by Carter George and a blocked shot by Madden Steen, Alfano picked up a rebound and backhanded it in to tie the game 3-3.
Erie had a couple of chances to win it in overtime. Edwards sizzled a high shot that George knocked away with his glove. The Attack goaltender also turned aside a Martin Misiak breakaway.
Then it was the Attack overage forward connecting to end the game with eight seconds left. Burroughs had the puck at the right side of the zone and zipped a backdoor pass to Goure at the side of the goal, and he potted the puck to lift his team to a 4-3 win.
George made 35 saves in the win, while Fraser stopped 37 taking the loss. The Attack outshot the Otters 41-38 while going 0 for 3 on the power play; Erie finished 0 for 1.
The Attack will try to sweep the back-to-back in Erie Sunday afternoon. Game time is 4 p.m. You can hear all the action live on Terry’s Trailer Service-Kia of Owen Sound Bear Radio on 560 CFOS, beginning with the Joe Tomato’s pregame show at 3:30 p.m.
Owen Sound hasn’t sweep a weekend back-to-back in Erie since the 2012-13 season, when they beat Erie 6-3 and 6-1 Nov. 2-3, 2012.
THE BIG ROAD WIN
The Attack ended a six-game losing streak on the road with Saturday’s win. It had been a month-and-a-half since their last away victory, 6-5 in Ottawa on Jan. 21. The Attack’s last regulation win on the road was two days earlier, Jan. 19 against Kingston.
PLAYOFF RACE TIGHTENS
Here’s how things shake out after Saturday’s games: the Attack, Storm and Otters are all tied now with 62 points. Owen Sound will technically be fifth, as they hold the regulation-or-overtime wins tiebreaker. Guelph and Erie each have a game in hand on Owen Sound. And the eighth-place Flint Firebirds are just two points back of the Midwest trio, after a 2-1 overtime win over the Kingston Frontenacs.