FRAMINGHAM – Duxbury boys hockey coach Mike Flaherty has been part of some particular video games teaching within the CT/MA Cross-Border All-Star Challenge. He admits that most likely none will ever high the chance he acquired when he coached his son twice in years previous.
The most enjoyable sport is a complete totally different story, although, and an epic comeback within the CT/MA Senior All-Star Game Sunday afternoon at Loring Arena takes the cake by far.
After forcing a shootout with a late, three-goal rally within the first yr the decade-old problem passed off in Mass., the house staff completed off a 10-9 win when Charlie DiMartino (Braintree) and Aidan Brazel (Hingham) every tallied shootout scores as Wellesley goalie Reagan O’Neill stymied each Connecticut makes an attempt in additional time. Brazel (two targets, two assists) proved exceptionally clutch by helping on Frank DeTraglia’s (Lincoln-Sudbury) game-tying aim earlier than scoring to offer MA a short 9-8 lead with 2:18 to go, ultimately incomes the staff’s MVP honors together with his heroics.
“You never forget (coaching your son), but as far as pure excitement level and fan excitement, this is probably the best one,” Flaherty stated. “This was a good one. This was fun. … A lot of these guys are done playing competitively, and for them to go out on a moment like this is pretty cool.”
“Playing with all the South Shore guys, we grew up all together, it’s been a fun game,” Brazel added. “We’re down three at the end there, it was really good to rally together and comeback to win this one.”
Historically, MA has dominated this senior matchup. But amid a back-and-forth first couple durations that put it forward 6-5 getting into the ultimate body, CT had totally different plans this time round.
Fairfield Co-op’s connection between Ryan Tymon (two targets, two assists) and Ryan Flynn (two targets, help) made positive each MA aim was met with a CT response as the sport progressed. Even after Zach McHugh’s (Newburyport) aim late within the second reduce MA’s deficit to at least one, Flynn’s rating halfway via the third paired with Austin Ashby’s (Trumbull) tally with slightly below six minutes left to pin MA down 8-5 with little time remaining.
Yet, Liam Capplis (Xaverian) acquired one again simply 15 seconds later to chop the deficit again to 2 targets. Kyle Hutchinson (Braintree) took a feed from DiMartino with 4:58 to chop it even additional for MA’s first set of consecutive scores. DeTraglia’s tip only a minute later to tie it appeared like an ideal cap to a highly-improbable rally, just for Brazel to spice up MA additional for a 9-8 lead that few would’ve predicted simply three minutes prior.
“We went into the locker room after the second period and said to the guys, ‘What do we want to do here? Do we want to sort of tighten it up a little bit and try to win, or just want to play it out,’” Flaherty stated. “Every guy in that room said, ‘No coach, let’s do something here, let’s figure out how to win.’ That tells you a little bit about them and their make-up. There’s always a lot of pride in these games. You’re playing for Massachusetts, you’re playing for your school. … You always want to win this one, you always want the bragging rights.”
Ashby and CT weren’t fairly achieved, as his aim with 1:29 to play answered the rally and compelled the shootout. It wasn’t sufficient to flip momentum again in its favor, although, as MA completed off the primary two bids in additional time for yet one more win.
“Happy to hit (the shootout goal),” Brazel stated. “I think that’s a great team over there, props to them. … This means the world for Massachusetts. Playing against them is always a fun game, so we want to keep (the winning tradition) going along.”
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