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Dec 04, 2009 | volunteer | 927 views
Pickett is the Hero!

On Wednesday night the Canadian Tire Atom Reps played host to the Goderich Sailors. The Atoms were coming off back-to-back losses including a 5-1 lose to Goderich just a week earlier. The lone goal scorer from those two games was rookie Tori Hodgins.



What unfolded on this night, however, was one of the best finishes this hockey dad has ever scene. Early in the first Rhys Vollmer opened the scoring after the Atoms applied sustained pressure deep inside the Sailors blue-line. Assists went to Jake Colley and Bradley Pickett. Goderich wasted no time, however and scored two quick goals. On both goals the Goderich forwards went in on break-aways after getting behind the Kinucks defense.

 

Goderich added a third goal at the start of the third period and it appeared as though the Atoms were heading for another loss. A quick goal by Danny Skinner made it 3-2 and the Kinucks were back in the game. Skinner took the puck from his own end and after losing it into the Goderich corner, took a sharp angled shot from behind the net and banked it off the unsuspecting Sailor goalie.

 

The Kinucks kept pressuring the Sailors and with one minute left pulled goalie Jamie Brock in favour of a sixth skater. The Sailors stole the puck and fired it down the ice, with 10 seconds left Skinner rounded behind his own net and passed it over to Bryce McFadden. McFadden banged the puck off the boards and away to Pickett. Pickett had the defense beat, the crowd was eyeing Pickett and the clock just when a Sailor defensemen dove across and slashed Pickett on the leg. He fell trying to get the shot off but missed just as the buzzer went to end the game. The home crowd was gutted; just when they thought things were over, Pickett was awarded a penalty shot. (Video evidence would later reveal that the right call was made despite the Sailor’s coaching staff disagreeing!)

 

With the score 3-2 and no time left on the clock, Pickett started with puck at centre ice. (Think Rob Lowe from the film Youngblood – circa 1986.) Pickett moved the goalie left, came across with the puck to his forehand and fired a wrist shot glove side to the back of net. With arms stretched way into the sky he was mugged by his teammates - the crowd provided the well-deserved standing ovation.

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