The Kimberley Dynamiters take a 3-2 series lead with a 2-1 win over Fernie Ghostriders

The Kimberley Dynamiters and Fernie Ghostriders have whittled down their series to a best of three. Game five was played in front of a crowd of 1,140 in Fernie.

Game Notes

• Tyson Brouwer and Jeff Orser started.
• There was a fan bus that went to the game, so the sections near the score-clock were Dynamiter fans.
• Injuries/Scratches: Mallard, Campanella, Roy, Pagura

1st
Both teams wanted to send a message, and that was that this was that goals were going to be hard to come by and that this was going to be a physically exhausting game. The first goal, definitely showcased how hard it would be to score, even though not credited, Gordon shot the puck from the point, it took several bounces before getting to Orser, and then ricocheted in the crease before Richter got stick on puck and got it in. The Dynamiters a 1-0 lead with 13 minutes left in the period. Later, Busch took a penalty while preventing a breakaway. The PK was excellent once again. The Dynamiters got a PP of their own late in the period, but didn't capitalize. At the end of the period, it was 1-0 Dynamiters, with Ghostriders leading in shots 9-7.

2nd
The save of the game came this period, as Brouwer was caught going one way and the attacking forward the other. He was down in the butterfly with the puck going high glove side, and he snagged it! Fernie was in disbelief. And that wasn't the only spectacular save, there were many, many more, as Brouwer kept his team in the game. Prevost jumped on a rebound midway through the period and gave the Dynamiters a 2-0 lead. Dynamiters led in shots 13-10 by the end of the period.

3rd
The Dynamiters were penalized early in the period. It took the Ghostriders 6 seconds to score on the PP with a set faceoff play. With just under 18 minutes left, and the score 2-1, intensity grew, fans were into it, and we just saw Elvis the rooster appeared. The rooster was quickly captured and taken off the ice - with momentum in Fernie's favor and time ticking down - this was a distraction that was quickly dealt with. Fernie fired everything at the Dynamiter net. There was even a moment when they thought they tied the game, but the goal was waved off due to it being offside. With two minutes left, the Riders attack vamped up. With 90 seconds left they pulled their goalie. 54 seconds left, timeout, faceoff in Kimberley's zone, but the Nitro's cleared the zone and were able to keep the puck along the boards in Fernie's end and held onto for a 2-1 victory, and a 3-2 lead in the series.

Kimberley now takes a 3-2 series lead back home for Game 6 on Monday. The winner of this series takes on Beaver Valley Nitehawks in the conference finals.

Dynamite Player of the Game
Tyson Brouwer - 31 saves. I don't know how he saw or even stopped the puck at times, but he did.

Honorable Mentions
Jonas Gordon - great energy, and a desire to get the puck out from his end to the other.
Coy Prevost - Scored the eventual GWG.
Jason Richter - Opened the scoring, and lead the team.

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