After the Peterborough Lakers, and a busload of fans, entered the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena on Friday evening and took game one of the MSL finals, the Six Nations Chiefs were looking for revenge Sunday, this time in Peterborough’s barn. While Alex Hill would score the opener, John Grant Jr would answer to tie the game. As has been the case all year when these two teams meet, the action was heated from the opening whistle. This included two separate offsetting minor penalties for roughing and a checking in the crease call in the opening period.
Peterborough found themselves in penalty trouble in the second as they took minors literally every two minutes. Colin Doyle and Cody Jamieson converted on the first and second powerplay chances the Chiefs were awarded, but the third would result in a shorthanded goal by Brad Self. With another set of offsetting minors, Jamieson found himself in the box for unsportsmanlike conduct to create a four-on-three advantage for the Lakers. With the skill of Peterborough’s offence, that is simply too much room to run and Jim Purves was able to tie the game at threes. The goal ignited a three goal run in a span of eighty-four seconds, and a four goal streak overall. Steven Keogh would bring Six Nations to within one with sixty-nine seconds to play in the period but the Lakers would score two in the final minute, including one with Tyler Carlson on the bench, to lead 7-4 with twenty minute to play.
The teams traded goals in the opening minute before Alex Hill was sent off for holding. On the powerplay, Grant scored his second of the game to restore Peterborough’s four goal cushion. With two minutes to play, and down by four, Six Nations began pulling Brandon Miller for the extra attacker. It worked for one goal when Roger Vyse wired a shot past Carlson. But the play would backfire in the most incredible way possible as Carlson launched the ball the length of the floor to put the exclamation point on the game.
In addition to the goal, Carlson had an assist and thirty-two saves to pick up the win. Brandon Miller, meanwhile, made fifty-one saves, including twenty in the opening twenty minutes, but his efforts were not enough as he was saddled with the loss. Chiefs’ head coach Rich Kilgour has been using a goaltending platoon of Miller and NLL goaltender of the year, Mike Poulin, throughout the post-season so it will be interesting to see who he goes with in game three.
That game takes place Tuesday night in Six Nations.
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