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Heck of a comeback just to get the point.

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Johnstown scored 4 unanswered goals including Justin Kelly's capping penalty shot goal with under a minute left just to get this game to overtime. Mike Betz, who I will refer to from here on out as "the sacrificial lamb" stopped just 26 of 33 shots faced.

Kelly paced the Chiefs with 2 goals, one of them shorthanded, while Dimitri Tarabrin had 1 goal and 1 assist. Adam Henrich had his 13th goal of the ECHL season in the third period comeback and John Toffey chipped in a second period assist.

Game sheet from ECHL.com.

"And with the 14th pick in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft the Tampa Bay Lightning select..."

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Sean Burke actually played well the first two period before the flood gates opened. He allowed 5 goals on 30 shots in total. Honestly, I don't know what more there is to say right now. The cavalry isn't coming. The deadline's passed and Coleman, Boutin, O'Brien and Dicaire are probably too green to help shore up this club. What's worse than the defense and goaltending though is that the Lightning's forwards are showing themselves to again be incapable of scoring timely goals. Completely incapable. And if you're defense isn't going to be solid every night, you'd better get those timely goals.

70 points with 18 games left and a 4 point lead on 9th place. Is anybody going to step up?

Game sheey from NHL.com.

I'll take a point against these guys as opposed to the 4-5 goal shellackings they've been handing Springfield all season.

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More on the flip. I don't want to steal too much page space from the rest of the night's stories.

QMJHL

Mark Tobin scored his 26th goal of the season, added a helper, had 7 shots on goal and 8 hits. He was also named first star of the game. Unfortunately, it came in defeat 4-2 at the hands of Baie-Comeau.

OHL

Marek Bartanus was -2 as Owen Sound fell to London 3-1.

WHL

Vladimir Mihalik had an assist and was +1 but Red Deer lost 5-3 to Regina.

Linkopings fell 4-3 to Lulea in double overtime in the opening game of their Elitserien playoff series today. Fredrik Norrena stopped 36 of 40 shots faced in 98 minutes of hockey. Shane Willis scored the game opening goal for Linkopings in the first period.