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Colts Win Via Shootout

December 11, 2021 - Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
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BARRIE, Ont. - Jacob Frasca scored the only goal in a four-round shootout to give the Barrie Colts a 3-2 victory Saturday night over the North Bay Battalion in the opener of an Ontario Hockey League home-and-home series.

Tai York and Anthony Tabak scored first-period goals for Barrie, which moved its won-lost-extended record to 12-7-2 for 26 points, third in the Central Division. Goaltender Mack Guzda made 32 saves through overtime as the Colts posted a fourth straight win before 2,728 at the Sadlon Arena.

Matvey Petrov scored both North Bay goals, also in the first frame, while goaltender Joe Vrbetic faced 27 shots through overtime.

The Battalion, 16-7-3 for 35 points, is first in the division and tied with the Kingston Frontenacs atop the Eastern Conference. The Troops lost for the first time in four games.

The teams complete the home-and-home set at 2 p.m. Sunday on Indigenous Youth Day at Memorial Gardens.

The Colts hadn't played since a 3-2 overtime win Dec. 2 over the visiting Hamilton Bulldogs. A home-and-home series with the Sudbury Wolves over the next two nights was postponed after at least 12 Wolves tested positive for covid-19.

Barrie, shooting first in the penalty-shot competition, saw Ethan Cardwell, Oskar Olausson and Brandt Clarke denied by Vrbetic before Frasca connected. Battalion shooters were Petrov, Michael Podolioukh, Mitchell Russell and Brandon Coe, who lost control of the puck without a shot on a sweeping approach.

Coe, the OHL's leading scorer with 48 points from 15 goals and a league-high 33 assists, had 14-game points and assists streaks ended. He came close to scoring in overtime, as Guzda froze in an upright stance to keep the puck on top of the net for a faceoff after Coe crashed the crease at 3:19.

Coe hit the post in the first minute of the third period, and Vrbetic robbed Olausson at the lip of the crease in the sixth. Coe worked into the front past Connor Punnett and forced Guzda to cover up on a backhander at 15:50.

York struck first at 6:43 of the opening period, capitalizing from the top of the left-wing circle after Chris Grisolia forced a turnover on the right boards, but Petrov responded 1:03 later when he took an Avery Winslow pass and beat a screened Guzda off the rush.

Petrov scored his team-leading 19th goal of the season, assisted by Ty Nelson and Russell, at 15:15 off a two-on-one rush, beating Guzda high to the stick side, before Tabak tied it 1:05 later, emerging from the right corner and snapping the puck home on the short side.

The Battalion, which failed to score on the period's only power play, forged a 13-8 edge in shots in the frame.

Early in the second period, Russell, fresh from the penalty box, staged a two-man breakaway with Owen Van Steensel but was foiled by Guzda before Barrie's Cooper Matthews hit the right post on a point-blank chance in the fifth minute. Cardwell rang the puck off the same post three minutes later.

Coe and Petrov raced away on an odd-man rush in the 16th minute, but Guzda robbed Petrov off a goalmouth feed from Coe.

BATTALION BULLETS: Indigenous Youth Day is to feature a pregame ceremony with Chief Scott McLeod of Nipissing First Nation, an information booth and prizes, including a Battalion sweater signed by Dalyn Wakely ... Coe had nine goals and 23 assists for 32 points in his points streak, and the 14-game assists streak ranks as the OHL's longest this season ... Petrov has a 12-game points streak in which he has nine goals and 17 assists for 26 points. An official scoring change in a 5-1 road win Dec. 4 over the Niagara IceDogs has seen Liam Arnsby credited with North Bay's fourth goal, on a two-man advantage at 12:16 of the third period, with Nelson, formerly the scorer, and Coe drawing assists and a Petrov assist removed ... The Battalion went 0-for-2 on the power play. Barrie was 0-for-4 ... The Troops were without Tnias Mathurin, Kyle Jackson and Rodion Tatarenko, who was recalled from the junior A Powassan Voodoos and skated in the warmup ... Chase MacQueen-Spence, up from Powassan, played a second game ... Among Barrie's missing were Hunter Haight, Nicholas Porco and Artur Cholach ... Overager Guzda, a Knoxville, Tenn., resident acquired Nov. 19 from the Owen Sound Attack for two OHL Priority Selection picks, has played five games with Barrie, going 4-1-0 with a 2.68 goals-against average and a .907 save percentage. He was a second-round pick in 2017 from the Detroit HoneyBaked 16U squad.

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