Brantford answered before the intermission. Adam Nemec scored at 16:32, reducing the Steelheads\u2019 lead to one heading into the third. Xavier Lieb then tied the game at 5:05 of the final period.<\/p>\n
Kuryachenkov restored Brampton\u2019s advantage at 8:26 on the power play. The league marks his goal as the game winner: it was the Steelheads\u2019 third, and the Bulldogs finished with two.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
October 24 final \u2014 Brampton at BrantfordTeamGoalsShotsPower playBrampton Steelheads4261\/3Brantford Bulldogs2310\/4
\nSpecial teams make the difference<\/p>\n
The Steelheads won despite being outshot 31\u201326. 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.<\/p>\n
That combination mattered after the Bulldogs drew level. Brampton\u2019s early lead had disappeared, but Kuryachenkov\u2019s goal put the visitors back in front a little more than three minutes after Lieb\u2019s equaliser.<\/p>\n
Witkowski\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brantford answered before the intermission. Adam Nemec scored at 16:32, reducing the Steelheads\u2019 lead to one heading into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-946666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}