Nearly five periods, a lengthy delay due to ice issues, and a two goal deficit weren't enough to keep a determined Estevan Bruins squad from gutting out a win over the Humboldt Broncos in game five on Friday, March 22. Though the Broncos roared out of the gate, the Bruins rallied late and ultimately took the game to double overtime.

Tanner Manz scored the winning goal, and Grant Boldt stopped 42 of 44 shots he faced as the Bruins extended their season with a 3-2 victory. Rayce Ramsay stopped 46 of 49 shots he faced, while getting goals from Logan Foster and Owen Guenter.

LISTEN: Tanner Manz's Overtime Winner  

"Their emotions and energy levels were fine," Bruins head coach and GM Chris Lewgood said of his team's marathon effort. "Physical energy levels, it takes a toll, but that works on both sides. Both teams proved that they're well conditioned. But guys get excited. They want to see their team win and they want to be the hero, and the tendency for these young guys is maybe to cheat for offense so we spent a lot of time focusing on the defensive side of the game."

After the first period it didn't look like the Bruins would get anywhere near overtime. Foster opened the scoring 8:33 in with a wrist shot off the rush that handcuffed Boldt, catching him on the arm, snaking its way up his shoulder, and depositing itself behind him. Then, four minutes later, Guenter took the rebound of a shot block by Johnny Witzke and slapped it past Boldt low to the right pad side.

There was no scoring in the second period, but early in the third, the Bruins jumped on the Broncos immediately. Devan Harrison dumped the puck deep, and Will Koop tracked it down on the forecheck, feeding it out front to Turner Ripplinger. The Bruins second leading scorer in the regular season made no mistake from between the hashmarks, wiring a shot low-blocked on Ramsay.

Then the momentum came to a halt, however, as a 45-minute delay due to an issue with the ice ensued. The Bruins and Broncos headed to their dressing rooms to wait it out while the ice crews fixed up the ice as best they could.

"I don't think there was a lot of momentum," Lewgood said. "We scored not long before the ice mishap but then they had us hemmed in our zone, so I think it was sort of a neutral thing. But it did give everybody a chance to regroup, discuss x's and o's and refocus."

Late in the game, just minutes from the end of their season, the Bruins got new life when Jake Heerspink blasted home a slapshot on the power play for his third of the postseason. Though Guenter came dangerously close to restoring the Broncos lead, the Bruins held on through the end of regulation. 

In overtime they began to take control, and early in the second overtime frame, Manz took a drop pass from Tristyn DeRoose and fired a backhand from the slot through a screened Ramsay to take the win. 

"It was one of those things where you just kind of forget what happened," Lewgood said of the goal. "But it was exciting. He just kind of threw the puck on net and it's often those types of goals that go in that time of game."

The Bruins survive their first elimination game and return to Humboldt for game six. Puck drop is at 3:00 on Rock 106. 

GAME NOTES

Brayden Camrud extended his series-long point streak with an assist on Foster's first period goal. He leads the series with 11 points in five games.

For the first time in the series, the Bruins overcame a 2-0 deficit to win. The team that scores first is just 1-4 in this series.

The Bruins have now outshot the Broncos in every game of the series. They have put up 40 or more shots three out of five games, winning two of those three.