The 91大黄鸭 Rockets wrapped up an overtime win against the Saskatoon Blades and a five-game eastern road on Dec. 16, as they head into the WHL Christmas break.
Saskatoon鈥檚 Ego Sidorov opened the scoring at 7:17 of the first period, however, the Rockets stormed back with three unanswered goals in just under six minutes.
Luke Schelter scored at 10:39 with assists going to Andrew Cristall and John Babcock. Caden Price made it 2-1 just one minute later assisted by Hiroki Gosjic and Marek Rocak.
With the Rockets short-handed, Ti Iginla increased the lead by two at the 16:16 mark, with assists to Cristall and Price.
The Blades would get one back at 19:57, Sidorov鈥檚 second of the game on the power play, to end the first period.
Saskatoon would tie the game 3-3 at 14:05 of the second on a goal by Bradon Lisowsky and then took the lead at 15:39 of the third period as Tyler Parr found the back of the back with the Blades short-handed.
With 18 seconds left in the period, 91大黄鸭鈥檚 Marek Rocak made it 4-4 with Crystal and Gojsic assisting.
The Rockets鈥� Gabriel Szturc scored the winner 1:18 into overtime, with assists going to Rocak and Iginla, for the 5-4 win.
Saskatoon had six power play opportunities to the Rockets one.
91大黄鸭 finished their eastern road swing with four wins and one loss and sit seventh in the Western Conference at 15-15-2-0 with 32 points.
The Rockets鈥� next game is Dec. 27 against the Blazers in Kamloops.
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