OWEN SOUND - A dominant performance by Givani Smith wasn’t quite enough for the Guelph Storm Saturday night.
Smith had a hat trick and was a force all evening for the Storm, but so was the Owen Sound Attack’s Nick Suzuki.
Suzuki’s third goal of the game 3:14 into overtime handed the Storm a 6-5 loss at the Bayshore Community Centre.
A turnover at the
“It’s always disappointing in overtime, regardless of how you got there,” Storm coach Jarrod Skalde said.
“From my perspective, there were times where (
Twice in the third period the Storm battled back to tie the game, once on a Barret Kirwin wrister with 2:04 left in the third, and then after the Attack’s Cordell James put his team ahead, Smith scored off the rush with four seconds on the clock to force overtime.
“Definitely one of my better games of the year,” said Smith. “I don’t normally score goals like that but things were going my way. Right place at the right time.
“It just shows what things will be like when guys get more experience in the league. I think we kind of deserved to win that one,” Smith said.
Nate Schnarr had the other Storm goal.
Garrett McFadden returned to the lineup after serving his eight-game suspension and had two assists.
Anthony Popovich started in net for
That was the enough for Skalde, who put Herbst in to start the third period. The overager played well the rest of the way, including stopping Suzuki on a penalty shot in overtime.
“I didn’t think he was feeling it,” Skalde said of Popovich. “I thought it was the right time to make the change.”
