Wilderness force a game four against Bruins
Published 9:37 pm Friday, April 20, 2018
- Austin Bruins goaltener Alex Schilling stops a point-blank scoring chance by Minnesota Wilderness' Edward Lindelow during Friday night's NAHL playoff series game 3 at Northwoods Credit Union Arena in Cloquet. Photo courtesy Dave Harwig
The Austin Bruins weren’t able to wrap up their five-game series with the Minnesota Wilderness yet as they lost 3-2 in game three in Cloquet Friday night.
Austin now has a 2-1 series lead and it will try to win the series when it plays the Wilderness in Cloquet at 7:05 p.m. on Saturday.
Austin’s Che Landikusic and Valdemar Ahlberg each scored second period goals to tie the game at 2-2 in second period, but the Wilderness score the game-winning goal when Alex Spencer scored with 15:34 left in the game.
Alex Schilling had 22 saves for Austin.
Austin Bruins’ forward Evan Cholak escapes from Minnesota Wilderness’ Andrew Troy for a scoring chance during Friday night’s NAHL playoff series game 3 at Northwoods Credit Union Arena in Cloquet. Photos courtesy Dave Harwig
SCORING SUMMARY
Bruins 0 2 0 — 2
Wilderness 2 0 1 — 3
First period
(M) Luke Dow (Gino Lucia) 12:43
(M) Dow (Eric Gotz) 19:31
Second period
(A) Che Landikusic (Alex Mella) 1:21
(A) Valdemar Ahlberg (Landikusic, Levi Stauber) 16:19
Third period
(M) Alex Spencer (Alex Truscott) 4:26
Shots: Bruins — 40; Wilderness — 25
Power plays: Bruins — 0-for-3; Wilderness — 0-for-1
