Bandits take ninth straight, win in Canmore 9-5
CANMORE, AB – In a high-scoring return from the Christmas break, the Brooks Bandits (33-3) won their ninth consecutive game on Friday night, beating the Canmore Eagles 9-5 on the road.
The Bandits got their nine goals from eight different goal scorers, with only captain Nathan Plessis (Salmon Arm, B.C.) scoring twice in the game.
The first period featured a whopping seven goals with a back-and-forth start to the game. Plessis scored the opener on a breakaway just 1:44 into the game, but Alex Young tied it for Canmore eight seconds later on a wrist shot from the right circle. Bobby Harrison (Waterdown, ON) jammed home a rebound goal at the 3:34 mark to make it 2-1, but Canmore tied it again on a Quinton Ong goal at 9:13.
Brooks then scored three times consecutively; the first a Jakob Lee (Owen Sound, ON) marker at 11:08, then Plessis’ second of the game on the rebound of a Nick Hale (Raleigh, NC) point shot at 13:55, then Hale himself wristed home a top shelf shot at 15:49 on a setup by Simon Gravel (Boucherville, QC) to make it 5-2 heading into the first intermission.