Penticont Vees 2 - 3OT Victoria Grizzlies @ South Okanagan Events Centre, Oct 27th

Sorry folks, little late on the report and a big thanks to Tony Burrows really stepping up to write this one out.

Article by Tony Burrows:
On Saturday, Oct. 27 our Victoria Grizzlies sent a resounding message to the entire BCHL. Heads up you guys, there is another Big Dog (or in this case a Grizzlie!) on the block.
The Grizzlies defeated last year's RBC championship team the Penticton Vees in a 3 to 2 double overtime loss. That by itself could be a coincidence, but when you consider that the Vees this season have 13 wins, only 2 regular time losses and 2 overtime losses (BOTH OF WHICH ARE TO OUR GRIZZLIES) the chance of that being an anomaly is reduced drastically!
Only 21 seconds into the first period ever dangerous Wade Murphy, who used to play for our Victoria Grizzlies early last season, put one past our netminder Michael Stiliadis with help for the Vee's Sam Mellor. This set up the game for lively, hard hitting hockey by both teams as the grizz scrambled to even the game! It was interesting to note that our Awesome Threesome, the Fitzie triplets were unable do much as the Vees always had a man draped all over them for most of the game until the second overtime when things opened up a bit and the Vees could not contain the Fitzies as easily! However it was great in a way! This gave some of our other players who did not have a Penticton Vee growing out of his left ear a chance to prove themselves! And so they did BIG TIME!
At 8.22 Mitch Meek, a 16 year old rookie who had been a healthy scratch in Salmon Arm, surprised us all with a great goal past Vees goalie Chad Katunar with an assist by Myles Powell! The first period ended in a 1 to 1 tie between these two great teams!
6.39 into the second period Penticton scored against us and took the lead agiain. This held throughout that period and into the third, and at 8.36 of the third regulation period our man Brett Hartskamp beat Katunar with the help of Mazurek and Lawson! It was a credit to the Grizzlies that they managed to hold off the buzzing Penticton Vees for the rest of that period as you could see that our Grizzlies had stuck their nose into the Vees beehive and the Vees were NOT happy about that!
During the first 4 on 4 overtime both teams had enough players to drape all over the top scorers and it was interesting to note that in both overtime periods the Vees only managed 3 shots on net, and the Grizz 4. But as I said earlier, when the second overtime with 3 on 3 came the Vees could not contain those deadly Fitzgeralds, and Leo scored the game winner from Myles!
Great things happen when those kids get room to play!! But it was also great to see some of the other players getting a chance to shine also!
Huge congratulations to DJ Jones from the Grizzlies for being picked as first star and to Chris Albertini, also from Victoria for being the second Star. And good luck to Michael Stiliadis who now heads to Alberta for the Canada West selection camp!