The Yarmouth Junior A Mariners have their first win in their first game of the 2016/2017 MHL season.
Connor Peveril scored the first goal of the game, and had the shootout winner as the Mariners defeated the Slammers in Woodstock 4-3.
Mariners win @JrASlammers shootout. Peverill gets it past.
3-3 after 3
SOG 44-40 Mariners.
@AcesJrHockey Sat#BleedBlue #MarinersArmy— Yarmouth Mariners (@MarinersHockey) September 10, 2016
Zeke Estrada and Matt Warner also scored for Yarmouth, a team that didn’t take part in a shootout all of last season.
Peveril lit the lamp just over five minutes in.
But the Slammers would counter with a pair of first period goals.
Estrada tied the game at two early in the second, before the Slammers took the lead again 3-2.
Warner’s goal came 39 seconds later.
There was no scoring in the third period or the three-on-three five minute overtime.
Slammers goalie Jack Grant was named the game’s first star, while Mariners goalie Leif Hertz was second star.
Hertz stopped 37 shots, and Grant made 40 saves.
Davide and Adamo Asselin each had an assist, as did Chris Goreham.
The Mariners continue their road-trip with a stop in St. Stephen tonight.
Yarmouth’s home opener is on Friday, September 16 against Valley.
Other scores in the MHL tonight:
South Shore 7, Valley 6 (OT)
Truro 3, Campbellton 2 (OT)
Miramichi 4, St. Stephen 3 (OT)
