It’s been quite a week for the Haliburton County Huskies – back-to-back double overtime games Nov. 5 and 8, followed by a huge come-from-behind win on the road Nov. 9.
The team was also sporting three new players after amajor trade with the Cobourg Cougars.
This past Sunday, the Markham Royals stunned the Huskies with three first-period goals: at 12:35, 15 seconds
later at 12:50, then at 15:32 to take a 3-0 advantage.
Alternate captain Isaac Larmard said, “we went into the dressing room after the first period and just regrouped. We
all agreed we had to be better and went out for the second and that’s when we came back and it was 5-4.”
The Royals had made it a 4-0 scoresheet at 7:16 of the second, but it was all Huskies after that.
Declan Bowmaster got the first one back at 8:56 on the powerplay, assisted by newcomer, Jack Cook, and Kieran
Raynor. Chase Del Colombo notched the second Husky goal at 10:37 from newbies, Liam Oravsky and Carson Durnin. Ronen Macfarlane bulged the twine at 12:10 on the man advantage, from Del Colombo and Durnin. Then,
at 13:26, Oravsky tied the game, from Easton Poe. Durnin potted the game-winner at 18:16, assisted by Oravsky and Del Colombo.
The third was scoreless in the improbable 5-4 Huskies win.
Larmand said, “coming back from 4-0 is pretty hard to do.”
Huskies 1 Dukes
The night before, Nov. 8 at home, the Huskies played the Wellington Dukes to a 1-1 tie when no one could score
after double overtime.
Wellington got on the board first, at 11:04 of the second period. But Oravsky tied things up at 9:39 of the third, with
an assist to Daniel Vasic.
That was it for the scoring as the teams recorded a rare tie. Larmand said, “we had lots of chances to win that game; hit some posts, it was very back-and-forth. Taking the tie and not letting Wellington get the extra point helps us in the standings.”
Buffalo 3 Huskies 2
In this one, Julius Da silva got the blue and white on the board first, at just 54 seconds, from Vasic and Mike
Mardula. Then, at 10:10, Carter Petrie gave the Huskies a 2-0 lead on the PP, with assists to Larmand and Macfarlane.
However, the team squandered two late goals, at 16:24 and 18:09 to let the Junior Sabres back into the contest.
There was no scoring again until the Sabres broke the Huskies’ backs at 1:05 of the second OT to take a 3-2 win.
Larmand said, “that game was a very winnable game for us. We took the positives away from it,” including the good
start. However, he said they should not have given up two late first period goals. “Obviously, it didn’t finish the way
we wanted it to.”
Larmand said the three games were “pretty nuts. We just stuck to our system, stayed together as a team.” He felt they were character building games, especially coming back from a 4-0 deficit.
Trade
The Huskies traded Curtis Allen, Connor Hollebek, and Alex Rossi to Cobourg, picking up 20-year-olds Durnan
and Cook, and 19-year-old Oravsky.
“Just bringing in a couple of older guys to add some age to our team and add some experience and hopefully help us
get some wins,” Larmand said.
Next up: Pickering on the road Nov. 14 and St. Michael’s at home Nov. 15. Puck drop 4 p.m.
