Wolves fall in double OT

Tyler Harrison got a weird bounce and fired a wrist shot past Kyle Moir 15:31 into double overtime, giving the York Lions a 3-2 win on a night rife with upsets as the OUA men’s hockey playoffs got under way.

The Wolves now trail the best-of-three series 1-0.

Lakehead forced overtime with 18 seconds to go in regulation, when Kris Hogg scored his second of the night, beating Lions goalie Dave Davenport, author of a remarkable 52 saves on the night.

After a scoreless first, York’s Chris Jones fooled Moir in deep, depositing the puck in the corner of the net 3:28 into the second. Hogg knotted the score two minutes later on the power play, but York escaped the period with a 2-1 lead, thanks to defenceman Matt Thomson.
The Wolves will face elimination at Fort William Gardens on Friday night. Game 3, if necessary, will go on Saturday night at the Gardens.

The Wolves weren’t the only top-four team to lose their opener.

At London, Josh Vatri’s power play marker with five minutes to go in the second proved to be the difference as the University of Ontario Institute of Technology Ridgebacks upset the heavily favoured Western Mustangs 2-1.

At Waterloo, the seventh-seeded Windsor Lancers doubled the Waterloo Warriors 4-2, scoring three unanswered goals in the third to take a stranglehold in the series. Thunder Bay’s Kyle Tront scored the winner at 12:28 of the third.