Regals finally win one

Buffalo works overtime to snap 16- game losing streak for ultimate treat on Halloween night

Opportunity knocked on Halloween night, the Buffalo Regals answered the door and were rewarded with the ultimate treat – their first win of the junior B hockey season.

The longest losing string in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League — 16 games, dating back to the start of the regular season — was finally snapped Tuesday night in Buffalo.

Nash Braun’s goal 59 seconds into the second overtime gave the Regals a 3- 2 victory over the visiting Pelham Panthers. Buffalo, which took the ice against 7- 11 Pelham with a record of 0- 15- 0- 1, was 12 seconds away from winning in regulation when the Panthers’ Jared Hill scored to send the game into overtime.

Pelham’s Matt Ruigrok and Buffalo’s Christian Jarmusz traded firstperiod goals and the game remained deadlock at one- all until Robert Haak scored on the power play 18: 28 to give the Regals their first lead of the game.

Buffalo outshot Pelham 33- 31 and finished 1- for- 7 on the power play, while holding the Panthers scoreless in seven chances to score with a man advantage.

It was the second time in three games that the Regals have earned a point. On Oct. 24 they lost 6- 5 in overtime to the Fort Erie Meteors to earn their first point of the season.

Corvairs 4, Avalanche 2

At Caledonia, Adam Craievich netted two power- play goals to help the Golden Horseshoe Conferenceleading Corvairs defeat Ancaster and move three points ahead of the Niagara Falls Canucks and St. Catharines Falcons.

T. J. Hughes and Owen Lane also scored for Caledonia, which avenged a 4- 3 overtime loss to Ancaster last week to improve to 14- 2- 0- 1.

Yianni Skropolis, shorthanded, and Noah Romeo, as an extra attacker, replied for the Avalanche, who lost for the first time in nine games to fall to 12- 3. Caledonia outshot Ancaster 3522. The Avs finished Tuesday night’s game 0- for- 3 on the power play; the Corvairs, 2- for- 4.

Today’s action in the Golden Horseshoe Conference has the Niagara Falls Canucks, 13- 6; visiting the Thorold Blackhawks, 8- 9- 1- 0; for a 7: 07 p. m. puck drop.

Niagara Falls is seeking to win its fourth game in a row while Thorold is coming off of a 5- 2 victory over Buffalo after rebounding from an 8- 0 loss to Caledonia.