Brantford answered before the intermission. Adam Nemec scored at 16:32, reducing the Steelheads’ lead to one heading into the third. Xavier Lieb then tied the game at 5:05 of the final period.
Kuryachenkov restored Brampton’s advantage at 8:26 on the power play. The league marks his goal as the game winner: it was the Steelheads’ third, and the Bulldogs finished with two.
Kieran Witkowski supplied the insurance goal at 18:14 into an empty net. That left 1:46 on the clock and completed a four-scorer night for the visitors. Brampton scored twice in the second period and twice in the third.
October 24 final — Brampton at BrantfordTeamGoalsShotsPower playBrampton Steelheads4261/3Brantford Bulldogs2310/4
Special teams make the difference
The Steelheads won despite being outshot 31–26. Brampton converted one of its three power-play opportunities, while Brantford did not score on any of its four chances. The deciding goal came from the only successful power play of the game.
That combination mattered after the Bulldogs drew level. Brampton’s early lead had disappeared, but Kuryachenkov’s goal put the visitors back in front a little more than three minutes after Lieb’s equaliser.
Witkowski’s empty-net goal then widened a one-goal margin. It should be read separately from the earlier scoring against a goaltender, rather than used to suggest Brampton controlled the shot count throughout the night.