Price's OT Winner Propels Prowlers to Sweep

Bobby Price scored his second of the night in overtime to propel the Port Huron Prowlers past the Watertown Wolves 3-2 at Watertown Municipal Arena on January 31. Port Huron is leaving Watertown with five of a possible six points on the weekend.

“It’s obviously good to get a big win,” said Prowlers associate head coach Chris Paulin. “It was kind of a crazy game but the guys stuck to it and we got some really spectacular goaltending, especially in the third period.”

After a scoreless opening period, Price opened the scoring with a power play goal as he drove the net and tucked it home along the ice. Steven Klinck got a penalty shot later in the period, but Reid Cooper stopped him.

“I thought Coop played it spectacularly,” Paulin said. “I think [Klinck] panicked a little and ran out of room. Coop knows how to play penalty shots, for sure.”

Klinck got on the board a few minutes later on a partial breakaway to tie the score. Tim Organ clapped home a power-play marker to answer and the Prowlers took a 2-1 lead into the third.

There, it was the Wolves’ turn to convert on the power play as Yefim Mishkin stuffed it home. That sent the game to overtime.

In a delayed penalty situation, the Prowlers attacked four-on-three. They worked the puck to Price in the right-wing circle. He stepped in and ripped a shot over Matt Lenz’s blocker that hit the post and bounced in and out quickly. It was called a goal on the ice and that call was confirmed after a long review.

Organ added an assist to his goal while Jamie Bucell dished out two helpers. Cooper made 21 saves in his league-leading 17th win of the season.

Klinck and Mishkin each added an assist to their goals while Egor Filippov had two. Lenz made 24 stops in Watertown’s sixth-straight loss.

The Prowlers have a week off before returning home on February 13 and 14 to face the Binghamton Black Bears. Tickets to both games are available at phprowlers.com/tickets.