TOMAH, Wis. — After a heartbreaking 3-2 decision on Thursday evening — a game in which
two goals were scored in the game’s final 40 minutes, and the game-winner was scored in
overtime — the Wisconsin Woodsmen found themselves on yet another white-knuckle ride the
following evening.
And, unfortunately, the end result came to a screeching halt the exact same way.
After battling to a 4-4 stalemate through the game’s opening 60 minutes, the Power — 4-3 OT
winners in Game 1 of the teams’ best-of-3 NA3HL Fraser Cup series — got the game- and series-
and season-ending goal from Brody Josselyn midway through the first overtime, lifting West
Bend to a 5-4 victory Friday at the Tomah Ice Center.
Brady Josselyn single-handedly gave West Bend a 2-0 lead, scoring a pair of first-period goals six
minutes apart to give the Power a 2-0 advantage heading into the first intermission.
Teagan Scheurer scored five minutes into the second period to extend the Power’s lead to 3-0
before Joshua Kauppinen and Tristen May-Robinson netted back-to-back goals to pull the
Woodsmen within one 3-2.
And the teams weren’t finished yet.
Jozef Silhar extended West Bend’s lead back to two, 4-2, only to have Kauppinen net his second
goal of the post-season with 2:27 to play to get the Woodsmen back within one, 4-3, heading
into the game’s final 20 minutes.
West Bend clung to that one-goal advantage late into the third period, but the Woodsmen
weren’t about to go down without a fight, getting a game-tying by fromwith 2:47sd remaining
in regulation to send the game into overtime for the second straight night.
And, as was the case on Thursday, it would be the Power who would end the contest — and
this time the series — in the extra frame, as Josselyn beat Woodsmen goalie Steven Kelley with
the game-winner with 10:52 to play in the first extra session.
Hugh Deinema and Vincent Greene each finished with finished with assists on three of
Wisconsin’s four goals, while Kelley kicked out 32 of West Bend’s 37 shots on goal. Power goalie
Adam Prokop finished with 23 saves on 27 Wisconsin shots.
With the loss, the Woodsmen, who finished fourth in the Central Division, ended its season
with a 24-16-4-5 overall record in its second season in Tomah, Wis.
