MUSKEGON \u2014 Reeths-Puffer and Canton were so closely matched but someone had to win, and Canton won in a very long shootout, 3-2, at the Stan Konrad Hockey Showcase Jan. 10.<\/p>\n
The game took place at the Lakeside Sports Centre and after regulation and an overtime period, they went into a shootout, which became a classic.<\/p>\n
It was in the shootout where Canton finally broke through with the winning goal.<\/p>\n
Afterward, Rockets\u2019 Head Coach Bill Zalba said, \u201cBoth teams played a quick turnaround game, played hard.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt came down to a shootout,\u201d Zalba said. \u201cIt was fun to watch it; they don\u2019t get to do that too often so I\u2019m glad they get to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re a good team over there, well coached, worked hard and we just came out on the short end of the shootout,\u201d Zalba said.<\/p>\n
Zalba also said that this is the first time he has ever been in his coaching career, saying that shootout went almost as long as a normal overtime.<\/p>\n
But it was the Rockets who got the scoring started in the first period when Tyler Cuti scored at 16:03.<\/p>\n
Dominic Switzer and Hayden Taylor drew the assists.<\/p>\n
Taylor would also draw the two penalties on the Rockets in the first period, an elbowing two-minute minor at 11:44 and a two-minute minor for hooking, at 0:57.<\/p>\n
Canton\u2019s Cameron James drew a two-minute minor for interference at 14:21.<\/p>\n
The Rockets extended their lead in the second period to 2-1 when Tyler Cuti scored at the 8:01 mark.<\/p>\n
But Canton got on the scoreboard at 8:01 when Will Schley scored an unassisted goal.<\/p>\n
There were no penalties in the period.<\/p>\n
Late in the third period, Dylan Parrish of Canton tied the game, 2-2, with assists given to<\/p>\n
Sam Spirl and Gavin Simmons drew the assists.<\/p>\n
The period was penalty-filled for both teams.<\/p>\n
For the Rockets, Eli Cuti was penalized for two minutes for holding at 9:58; Connor Anderson was given a two-minute slashing call at 7:59 along with Canton\u2019s Simmons, also two minutes for slashing.<\/p>\n
And at 0:13, Jordan Benkert of the Rockets was whistled off for two-minutes for slashing.<\/p>\n
At 12:56 of the third period, Canton\u2019s Zack Vandefifer received a five-minute major for tripping\/clipping\/leg checking\/slew footing and was ejected from the game at the same time.<\/p>\n
Then Brody Kocurek of Canton was sent to the penalty box at 12:34 with a two-minute slashing penalty.<\/p>\n
Gavin Simmons found the penalty box for the second time in the game when he was given a five-minute major for slashing at 10:14.<\/p>\n
Then, at the 5:33 mark in the third period, Canton\u2019s Will Ott was assessed a two-minute minor for interference.<\/p>\n
The hard-fought, evenly matched battle ended 2-2.<\/p>\n
There was no scoring in the overtime period, but the Rockets\u2019 Kaden Benner served a two-minute minor for slashing.<\/p>\n
The shootout was a classic, and Eli Cuti, Taylor, Anderson all scored for the Rockets.<\/p>\n
But Cameron James, Matthew Falkenberg and Brody Kocurek all scored for Canton, as well as John Nickel, who delivered the winning goal.<\/p>\n
Bear VanDyke took the loss in goal for the Rockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MUSKEGON \u2014 Reeths-Puffer and Canton were so closely matched but someone had to win, and Canton won in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[24690,5,3768,6,50571,24689,5944,4831,9452,18721,43,51802,2091,1465,2090,1464],"class_list":["post-412422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey","tag-athletic-sports","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-rules","tag-ice-hockey","tag-ice-hockey-rules-and-regulations","tag-ice-sports","tag-indoor-sports","tag-overtime-ice-hockey","tag-penalty-ice-hockey","tag-sport-variants","tag-sports","tag-sports-penalties","tag-sports-rules-and-regulations","tag-stick-sports","tag-team-sports","tag-variations-of-hockey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115909849477260049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}