After losing in overtime Sunday night to the Simcoe Storm, the Norwich Merchants knew that if they want to win this Niagara West Division final last night was as much of a must win game as possible, knowing that they gave a less than satisfactory effort on Sunday night they came out last night with alot better effort. They were scoreless through a period of play untill Norwich's Mike Brilhante scored on a powerplay midaway thru the second period. Simcoe would tie the game on Zane Nielly's powerplay goal a minute into the third period. With overtime looming Chad Barclay played the hero by scoring with 58 seconds left in the 3rd. There was more fun in the waning seconds when Nielly was awarded a penalty shot with 2 seconds left but he was denied by Matt Coutts to seal the win for Norwich. Coutts made 30 saves in the win, while Simcoe goalie Chris Lee stopped 29 shots in the loss.
Game 4 goes Friday night in Norwich at 8 pm.
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