It’s now a best-of-three.
Brady O’Brien scored two goals, including the game-winner in double overtime, to lift the Quality Foods Oceanside Generals to a crucial 3-2 win against the Comox Valley Glacier Kings in Game 4 of their opening-round Vancouver Island Junior Hockey league playoff series Tuesday in Comox. The best-of-seven series is tied at 2-2.
The Generals got off to a flying start when team leading scorer and VIJHL top forward Carter Johnson scored just 30 seconds into the opening frame.
Oceanside extended their lead to 2-0 when O’Brien scored just past the midway mark in the second. The Glacier Kings cut the gap in half as Caileb Berge got one past Generals goalie Ashton Sadauskas.
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The Glacier Kings tied it up in the third with a quick goal 26 seconds into the period with Berge scoring his second marker of the night. The game remained tied at 2-2 at the end of regulation. The first overtime was scoreless but in the second OT, O’Brien scored the winner at the 1:07 mark.
Sadauskas was named player of the game for the Gens, as he turned away 27 shots to get the win in goal.
Game 5 moves back to Oceanside Place tonight at 7 p.m.
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