The Trenton Golden Hawks made small steps toward improvement with a point, but their losing skid continued to seven games in another 8-7 OT loss in Lindsay.
Ryan Chamberlain buried a hat trick and added four points in the defeat, which started off wild much like the Hawks season opener at the Fish Pond.
Lindsay went up 3-2 after 20 minutes on goals from Shane Brown, Anthony Farace and Quinte Red Devils graduate Kaden Koutroulides, with Evan Norris and Chamberlain responding for Trenton.
The Hawks turned up the ante a bit in the second, escaping to the second intermission with a 6-5 lead on Chamberlain’s second and single tallies from Beckett Ewart, Charlie Gage, Chamberlain and Ethan Brassard.
Chamberlain completed the hat trick in the third, but the Muskies managed to pull even on Koutroulides’ second of the game to force overtime.
Grant Jokic provided the heroics for Lindsay.
Along with Chamberlain, Norris, Brassard, Ewart, Kaiden Harmon and Niko Krmpotic all had multi-point games and Ben Radley added his first assist and point as a Hawk.
After starting goaltender Hayden Jeffery was traded to Kemptville of the CCHL, U18 affiliate player Simon Godin made 23 saves in his second OJHL start.
The Hawks are now idle for a week until they return home to meet the conference-leading Markham Royals at 7:30 p.m.
