The Ride ended last night for the Norwich Merchants as they lost to the Grimsby Peach Kings in triple overtime in game 6 in Grimsby. Ryan Roberts scored on a goal mouth scramble at 42:45 of overtime.
It was the third straight game to go to overtime, Norwich won Game 4 Friday 4-3, and lost Game 5 Sunday night 3-2. Norwich has nothing to hang their heads about in defeat. They gave it everything they had, the two teams were as even as you could get and as playoff series goes even though it didn't go seven games in my mind this has to go down as a classic series all six games were decided by one goal, three of them went into overtime, and the other three that didn't go to overtime were decided within the last 5 minutes of the game, It was great hockey to watch with lots of end to end action and lots of big hits.
In the end this series could have gone either way, Norwich could have won if they had got the bounces some nights but thats the way it goes. Have a great summer guys and see you in the fall.
To the overagers Captain Steve Boyd, Chad Barclay, Nate Geerlinks and Kris Krouluski thanks for the memories, the last two years as a Merchant fan will go down as my 2 favorite years since following the team 17 years ago, and the Best of Luck in your future endeavours.
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