Comeback kids bury the Checkers.
CHA-5
NOR-6 (OT)
Dustin Tokarski [9] allowed 5 goals on 29 shots for the win. He should be thankful his guys picked him up tonight.
First Period
NOR Ashton, (1) (Conacher, Barberio), 6:37 (PP)
Second Period
CHA Matsumoto, (1) (Sanguinetti, Boychuk), 4:26 (PP)
CHA Samson, (1) (Peters), 8:20
NOR Johnson, (1) (Barberio, Tyrell), 10:00 (SH)
CHA Samson, (2) (Sanguinetti, Matsumoto), 14:48
Third Period
CHA Boychuk, (1) (Krueger, Terry), 6:08
NOR Angelidis, (1) (Smith, Picard), 8:01 (PP)
CHA Matsumoto, (2) (Bowman), 12:44
NOR Labrie, (1) (Quick, Fornataro), 13:19
NOR Picard, (1) (Ouellet, Smith), 16:38 (PP)
Overtime
NOR Ashton, (2) (Petiot, Wright), 1:55
Carter Ashton [10] (pictured) and Tyler Johnson [11] were the game's first and second stars. The kids are alright.
Mark Barberio [12] starts his season with assists in triplicate.
Alexandre Picard [13] had the biggest goal of the game on the power play to cap a 2 goal third period comeback and send the game to overtime. Who started the comeback? Pierre-Cedric Labrie [14] with a nifty move to cut past the defense and cut the deficit in half. Somewhere Bolt Prospects writer and secret P-C Labrie fan Chad Schnarr is cringing and chuckling.
Norfolk outshot Charlotte 45-29 in the victory.
Box score [15] from TheAHL.com.