The Hurricane were feeling pretty good playing some gritty hockey against Halifax and taking care of both Bedford and Fredericton earlier on leaving Cole Harbour as the last obstacle. You would think with previous efforts that this, all things being equal, with another hard work effort would provide a favorable result. That is …all things being equal.  With Keegan Cooke already unavailable for an undetermined amount of time and Jordan Messenger not quite ready to return, more injuries were not in the plan. Morgan Lunn gets a lower body injury and is forced to sit. Christian Tufts suffers an upper body injury and a few minutes into the game Mark Jollimore joins the newly formed pine sitting group and not one of them are all that happy about it.     

Cole Harbour with some newly found jump coming off some great wins at the RCL are reveling in the excitement and momentum that winning brings and it was evident they were going to battle the Hurricane today.

Alex Mann set the Storm back a bit though when he fired a blast from the point to open the scoring. Cole Harbour to their credit kept coming and soon found themselves tied 1-1 with Hurricane. Then some penalty trouble and discipline issues erupted, not unjustly, but being right doesn’t have much value as you head to the sin bin. Forced to kill off penalties for a lot the game Cole Harbour finally capitalized on a 5-3 and then again on a 5-4 to open up an insurmountable lead with only 3 minutes remaining on the game clock or …..was it?

Key in the Hurricane attack and if you were fortunate enough to be in attendance at the County arena you witnessed an effort even the Hurricane didn’t know they had. Puck pursuit, speed and Cole Harbour were caught standing, collapsing, grasping on to their win. Less than 2 minutes…. BANG… the first dagger was fired and the lead cut to one with the Hurricane goalie Peterson on the bench for the extra attacker.

Puck dropped; fired in Cole Harbour’s end deep; absolutely no doubt a Hurricane player will get there first as Peterson heads to the bench once more. Hurricanes battle …moving...firing …BANG TIED GAME. Hurricanes needing the win to advance… time remaining 19 seconds… it could just be enough. These kids make you believe!   

It wasn’t meant to be this day at the County Arena as the Hurricane settle for the tie and end their run at the championship. Giving up only 5 goals in four games is nothing for this beat up Hurricane squad to hang their heads about….if there had of been 10 more seconds on the clock I just wonder … nope I feel it ..and they made me believe it…it could have happened ….it would have. Make the final Hurricane 3- Storm 3