Cougars Fall to Muskies in Double Overtime

After two goals in the later stage of regulation time to tie the game, the visiting Lindsay Muskies scored in double-overtime to defeat the Cobourg Cougars 4-3 in Ontario Junior Hockey League action Monday night.

Thomas Johnston scored 4:01 into that second extra frame to snap the tie and give the Muskies their ninth win of the season at the Cobourg Community Centre.

This is Lindsay’s most wins during a regular season since the 2017-18 campaign when they finished with 11. The Muskies had eight wins in 2018-19 and just five in 2019-20.

Cobourg bested the Muskies twice earlier in the season, but let leads of 2-0 and 3-1 slip away Monday night.

Trevor Hoskin opened the scoring for the Cougars with two minutes left in the first period and teammate Andy Reist tallied lone goal of the second near the 17-minute mark.

Lindsay’s Killian Rowlee cut the deficit to one 9:30 into the third before defenceman Adam Barone, on a Cobourg power play, scored his first OJHL goal just under two minutes later.

With under six minutes remaining, Alex Farmer and Gunnar Van Damme scored goals less than two minutes apart to pull even and ultimately force overtime.

Cobourg was 1-for-6 on the power play as Lindsay continued its stellar penalty killing. The Muskies are second in the OJHL with a 94.44 per cent success rate of killing penalties.

Muskies goaltender Yacine Chemrouk made 21 saves to improve his undefeated record to 5-0-0 with 1.36 goals-against average and .943 save percentage. Mason Vaccari made 24 saves in a losing cause for the Cougars.

The Cougars (5-6-0-1) and Muskies (9-4-0-2) will meet again this Friday, 7:30 p.m., at the Lindsay Recreation Centre.