Watertown, NY – The Danbury Hat Tricks were back in Watertown again on Saturday evening after spending last weekend here. 
The first period was up and down action on the ice, but neither team was able to take advantage of a scoring opportunity as both starters, Danbury’s Brian Wilson, or Watertown’s Greg Hussey turned aside all the first period attempts. Hussey ended up with 15 saves to Wilson’s 14 stops. Sending the period to an end tied at zero.
It didn’t take long in period number two for the goal lamp to be lit, as just 14 seconds into the frame, Dmitry Kuznetsov was able to smack home a rebound to give the Hat Tricks the first lead of the night. Michael Falanga gets credit for the assist on the play. Less than three minutes later the Hat Tricks would extend their lead when Michael Marcheson also took advantage of a rebound and had the left side of the goal wide open and stuffed it home. Michael Falanga grabbed his second assist of the night on the goal.
Larry Yellowknee cut the Hat Tricks lead in half with a nasty wrist shot from the right side beating Wilson over the shoulder making the score 2-1.The Wolves power play continued to improve as Don Carter Jr was able to get behind the Danbury defense and lift a shot to the short side top corner to knot the game at 2 each, assisted by Parker Moskal and Elijah Wilson.
At 16:43 of the second, Tobias Odjick put the Hat Tricks back in front when he slid the puck under Hussey making the score 3-2. Assists went to Dmitry Kuznetsov and Egor Borshchev. Watertown continued to out shoot Danbury, 23 to 18 in the second and 38 to 32 after forty minutes.
Period number three was a struggle for both teams as both Wilson and Hussey stepped up their games, both with some outstanding saves that kept the game at 3-2, until Larry Yellowknee was able to one time a pass from Parker Moskal and Elijah Wilson past Brian Wilson at the 19:49 mark, tying the game at 3 for a power play goal, also with an extra skater after Hussey was pulled in the closing seconds.
Regulation time ended knotted at 3 goals each sending the contest to overtime. The overtime period found both teams again with quality scoring chances but unable to convert, sending the game to a shootout.
Dnaiel McKitrick and Larry Yellowknee were the first two shooters respectively for their teams, both would be denied. Dimitry Kuznetsov and Parker Moskal were next up but neither could convert. Zachary Pamaylaon was Danbury’s third shooter and he was able to snap a shot over Hussey’s glove, giving the Hat Tricks the lead. It would come down to Don Carter Jr. to try and even the shoot out, but Brian Wilson denied the effort, leading the Hat Tricks to victory 4-3.
Watertown out shot Danbury 15 to 14 in the third and 5 to 3 in the overtime making the totals for the game 58 for the Wolves and 50 for Danbury.
The Wolves will be back in action Sunday afternoon as they travel to Elmira for a 3:00 start.
by Jeff Barrett
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