CHARLOTTE, NC – In a high-scoring back and forth battle, the Checkers fought their way back to pick up an overtime win against their Central Division rival Cleveland Monsters.
After the Monsters broke through in the first, the two clubs traded tallies over a whirlwind two minute stretch, with Andrew Poturalski and Patrick Brown pulling the score even through 40 minutes of play. The visitors responded with a pair of strikes in the third to build their first two-goal lead of the night, but the Checkers wouldn’t relent. Just 19 seconds after Cleveland’s fourth goal, Levko Koper kept a loose puck alive behind the net and banked it in pull Charlotte back within one. Then it was Brendan Woods, back in the lineup after a 45-game absence, who tied things up, ripping a wrister that beat Monsters’ netminder Anton Korpisalo short side less than a minute after that.
Neither side could pull back ahead in regulation and the contest moved to overtime. The Checkers wasted no time in the extra frame, with Poturalski and newcomer Danny Kristo springing out to a 2-on-1 where the latter would set up the former for his second of the night to lift Charlotte 5-4
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