Duzan, Mysiorek light it up in 8-7 OT loss to Mils

This will be a quick recap as I have a cold, flu and headache pounding me from all directions.

Taylor Duzan had four goals and six points, and Jesse Mysiorek added a hat trick, and amazingly it wasn't enough as the Klippers went down to defeat 8-7 in overtime against the Melville Millionaires.

Cody Hanson pounced on a bad turnover with 1:32 to play in overtime to pull the Mils within one point of the Klippers in the Sherwood standings.

You could tell it was going to be a wild one early, with the score 3-3 after the first period. Mysiorek scored twice in the frame, first on the rebound of his own wraparound, then on a one-timer from the high slot.

All hell broke loose early in the second. Godric Tham caught Johnny Calkins with a huge hit just inside the Klipper blueline. Calkins had trouble getting up and Riley Down immediately went after Tham - who refused to fight. As a result, Down got five and an instigator, giving the Mils seven minutes of PP time.

The hit looked clean to me at the time, but I haven't seen a replay. The good news is Calkins was back on the ice quickly.

Not long into the PP, John Sonntag got the gate on a somewhat weak cross-checking call to give Melville a 5-on-3 for two minutes. The Klippers killed that off. By the time the long PK was over, they had surrendered a goal but also got a shorthanded marker from Duzan. It was night and day from a very similar situation the team encountered in La Ronge after Dommett was injured. They allowed four goals that time.

Unfortunately for the Klippers, Cody Lund took a hooking penalty soon after that and also got two for unsportsmanlike. Melville scored twice on that power play. Duzan potted his hat trick goal before the end of the period to make it 6-5 for the visitors, and he tied it on his fourth less than a minute into the third.

Mysiorek forced overtime with 5:05 left, on the PP, when he hammered the rebound of a Duzan shot past Zack Rakochy.

The Mils play in North Battleford tomorrow night before heading back to Kindersley Saturday. As for me, I'm off to bed.