Comets advance with game six overtime victory
Taylor Paulovich scored 1:16 into overtime, as the Manning Comets defeated the Grimshaw Huskies 5-4, advancing to the second round of the NPHL playoffs in six games.
It was the Huskies who got on the board first, as Bond Hawryluk beat league MVP Braden Gamble, giving Grimshaw a 1-0 lead after 20 minutes.
The second period saw a lot of back-and-forth early in the frame, as Payton Proskurnak tied it up just 54 seconds into the second. That lead lasted only 25 seconds, as Mark Simpson restored the lead for the Huskies. Matt Boyd made it 2-2 less than two minutes after that, tying the game just 3:12 into the second.
Proskurnak made it 3-2 late in the period with his second of the game, sending the Comets to the room up by one after 40.