Milestone-Filled Home Opener For Peterborough Petes Gets 5-4 Shootout Win Over Erie
/Several milestones came with the Peterborough Petes’s home opener, as they defeated the visiting Erie Otters 5-4 in a shootout at the Peterborough Memorial Centre (PMC) on Thursday night.
Photo courtesy of the Peterborough Petes.
Petes head coach Rob Wilson got his 100th career Ontario Hockey League (OHL) win and Seattle Kraken prospect, Tucker Robertson, scored his 50th career OHL goal and 100th career point.
Connor Lockhart Led Peterborough with three assists, Nick Lardis tacked a pair of goals, Tucker Robertson had a goal and an assist, Donovan McCoy had two assists and Michael Simpson stopped stopped 32 shots for the first win.
Erie started hot with two goals in the first six minutes from Christian Kyrou and Bruce McDonald. Robertson responded with a goal of his own to have the Petes in a one-goal deficit going into the second.
Lardis scored his first of the season to tie the game at 2-2 early in the second. Erie’s Brett Bressette put the Otters up 3-2 heading into the second intermission.
The Otters continued the pressure with another goal in the first minute of the third from Casey Terrance. Justin DeZoete scored for Peterborough just under four minutes later and Nick Lardis would score late in the period to send the game to overtime and the eventual shootout.
Shootout results:
Petes – Tucker Robertson (Goal)
Otters – Brett Bressette (No goal)
Petes – Nick Lardis (No goal)
Otters – Christian Kyrou (No goal)
Petes – Connor Lockhart (No goal)
Otters – Casey Lawrence (No goal)
