Overtime needed for Tritons hockey wins over Comox
[caption id="attachment_29044" align="aligncenter" width="595"] Esquimalt Senior Tritons celebrate PO2 Pat McKernan’s (centre) game-tying goal in the third period of Game 2 of their exhibition series against Comox. The Tritons won 2-1 in overtime for a series sweep.Photo by Peter Mallett, Lookout Newspaper[/caption] Peter Mallett Staff Writer — Esquimalt Tritons hockey teams have returned to the ice on a winning note with a pair of victories over 19 Wing Comox. The Esquimalt Tritons Senior Men’s won a tie-breaking Game 3 in their three-game series against the Silver Totems, with a 2-1 overtime win on Feb. 24. Later that afternoon, the Tritons Men’s team completed a series sweep of their RCAF rivals with a 5-4 overtime victory. A/SLt Cameron Lamport scored a hat trick for the Men’s, erasing a 3-1 Comox third period lead in Game 2. Comox looked like they had pushed their series to a Game 3 tie-breaker after taking a 4-3 lead with 2:15 remaining in the third period. But then a snap shot by PO1 Curtis Gillies with just 12 seconds remaining tied the game and sent it to overtime. S3 Brady Hillock then cemented the series sweep for Tritons Men’s after scoring the winner less than a minute into overtime. He collected a pass from A/SLt Lamport and scored with a well-placed backhand under the crossbar to win the game and series for Esquimalt. “The team was pumped,” says PO1 Gillies. “Everyone jumped the boards to congratulate Hillcock and Lamport.” In Game 2, Tritons Senior Men’s PO2 Pat McKernan scored a tying goal with 5:39 remaining in the third period. Then, CPO2 Robert Tibbetts and WO Frank McCafferty assisted on PO1 Glen Thompson’s overtime winner for the series victory. “Game three was a tightly fought war of attrition with great end-to-end action,” says CPO2 Tibbetts. All three players involved in the Tritons Senior final goal had been doing double duty as members of the Tritons Men’s team as well. The Canadian Forces National Sports championship series have been...