Benefitting from a fortuitous bounce off the end boards, Ethan McLean backhanded in the game-winner 4:13 into overtime as the Blind River Beavers edged the Powassan Voodoos 1-0 Sunday afternoon in a hard-fought Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League goaltender’s duel at the Blind River Community Centre.

The best chance to convert in a scoreless first period came when Powassan’s Caleb Dawson rang a shot off the crossbar and out with 7:30 to play in the session.

From there, the goaltending battle between the Beavers ’ Mason Janicki and Tomas Kniaziew of the Voodoos continued into the second stanza as the score remained 0-0 after 40 minutes.

Blind River looked to have notched the day’s opening goal early in the third, but the play was nullified by the officials after Kniaziew got

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