Peterborough Petes overtime win over Niagara IceDogs on 70th anniversary, Digi Mart USA News (Peterborough, Ontario): Seventy years to the day after the Peterborough Petes earned their first-ever win with an overtime victory over the St. Catharines TeePees at the Peterborough Memorial Centre, the team beat another St.
Catharines-based club in overtime. Adam Novotny scored the winner against the Niagara IceDogs, giving the Petes a 3-2 victory before a sellout crowd of 3,814 fans.
For the second Sunday in a row, Novotny delivered the overtime winner against Niagara. He took a pass from Adam Levac, circled around captain Carson Cameron’s pick, and fired the puck past the goalie from the faceoff dot.
The Petes had taken two penalties in the final three minutes of regulation, and one led to Niagara’s tying goal, but they killed off the other, which ran 27 seconds into overtime.
The game was part of a celebration of the franchise’s 70th anniversary. Before the game, the Petes held a pre-game breakfast and a video tribute to their history, followed by a group photo at centre ice with the current team and nearly 60 alumni, including NHL players Bob Gainey, Doug Jarvis, Gary Green and Tim Trimper.
Goalie Aleksei Medvedev, acquired from the London Knights on Friday, made 25 saves to earn the win in his Petes debut. He said it was “awesome to see so many alumni here to show how much they love this place,” adding that learning the team’s history had been amazing.
Petes coach Rob Wilson, who won an OHL championship as a player in 1989 and as a coach in 2023, praised Medvedev’s performance. Niagara coach Jake Grimes was a Petes associate coach from 2015 to 2017.
The Petes outshot Niagara 45-27. Braydon McCallum gave Peterborough a 1-0 lead 10:22 into the first period.
Christian Colosimo tied the game for Niagara at 14:09 of the second period, 27 seconds after the IceDogs killed a 55-second five-on-three Petes power play. Mason Minsky restored the lead 8:26 into the third period.
Joey Banas tied it for Niagara on a six-on-four advantage with 2:19 left, after a boarding penalty on Grayden Strohack, forcing overtime.
Novotny said he was happy with the result. “Peterborough has so much history and obviously with the ceremony and celebration we wanted to come out with the win,” he said.
“We made it hard on ourselves but I’m happy we got the win.”
The Petes (9-10-0-0) next play Thursday, when they host the Kingston Frontenacs at 7:05 p.m.
