It was a remarkable comeback from the Invicta Dynamos as they three times came from behind to win at Streatham Redskins.
Invicta travelled into London for their first away game of the season without the services of injured Adam McNicoll, Andrew Henderson and the unavailable Grant Baxter and Damien Welch. For Streatham both Clayton and Chinn were missing.
With barely a minute on the clock, Ondrej Zosiak broke forward from his blue line, danced past Dominic Hopkins who slashed his opponent to start what would be the first of many penalties during the night.
Eriks Ozollapa tested David Wride on five minutes, taking Nicky Lewis’ pass before breezing past Ryan Giles and firing a shot towards goal. Streatham took the lead shortly afterwards when Adam Wood found space on 7:57 and firing past Mark McGill who had no chance.
Invicta drew level on 10:20 with Bailey Wootton and Conor Redmond linking-up to find Arran Strawson who shot from the right with the puck hitting David Wride and flying into the net.
Streatham were penalised for too many men on the ice on 10:57 but that wouldn’t stop them scoring shorthanded on 12:10 as Joe Allen linked with Dominic Hopkins to give Streatham a first period lead.
Eriks Ozollapa was certainly a marked man all game with Streatham trying to rough-up the forward, but Ozollapa dished back the treatment in the perfect way by shooting past Wride on 28:05 to give a 2-2 score line.
Sticks and gloves were soon on the ice on 34:03 after Ryan Giles appeared to hit out at Ondrej Zosiak creating a massive cluster of skaters by the benches.
The resulting penalties would see Invicta’s Elliot Dewey and Ondrej Zosiak getting 2+2 minutes for roughing and Harrison Lillis 2+2+10 for roughing and misconduct.
2+2 roughing penalties were also handed to Streatham’s Ryan Giles, Chris Wiggins and Jack Tarczycki.
The third period would see more penalties handed to both sides with Streatham continuing to try to intimidate and bully the young Dynamos. A Bailey Wootton penalty was taken advantage of by the home side on 45:59 with Steven Fisher putting Streatham ahead again.
A roughing call on Jack Tarczycki again gave Invicta hope on 53:52. With 55:04 on the clock, Ondrej Zosiak found Arran Strawson on the attacking right hand side with seemingly nowhere for the D-man to go, but after cutting inside Strawson unleased a backhanded flick into the back of Wride’s goal to pull Dynamos level.
Streatham were clearly rocked and 7 seconds later Eriks Ozollapa picked out a loose puck and fired Invicta in front to leave the home side rocked.
Mark McGill did well to save at the feet of Kamil Kinkor near the end as Invicta held strong for a remarkable victory.
Arran Strawson and Joe Allen picked-up the man of the match awards with Invicta now turning their attentions to Sunday’s game at Chelmsford.
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