The Owen Sound Attack keep finding ways to win.
Colby Barlow broke a 2-2 deadlock late in the third period as the Attack nipped the Oshawa Generals 3-2 in Ontario Hockey League action Friday night at the Tribute Communities Centre.
Owen Sound (13-6-0-0) has now won four straight games. Oshawa (5-11-0-2) dropped its eighth in a row.
Deni Goure and Ethan Burroughs also scored for Owen Sound. Ryan Gangier and Ryder McIntyre tallied for Oshawa.
Gagnier got things go for Oshawa in the first period, deflecting a Brett Harrison point shot past Nick Chenard on the power play to stake the Generals to a 1-0 lead.
Oshawa had four power play opportunities in the first period.
The Attack started the second with two goals in just 1:22. Burroughs surged down the right-wing and then cut towards the net before beating Carter Bickle on a strong solo effort to tie the game 1-1.
Twenty-eight seconds later it was Goure on the power play to give the Attack their first lead.
McIntyre tied it at 7:13 of the second, batting a rebound out of mid-air past Chenard.
Barlow’s game-winner came with 3:43 to play in the third. Taos Jordan sent the puck the length of the ice off the end board on a set play, and Barlow won a foot race and took the bounce in the slot and fired a shot past the blocker of Bickle to make it 3-2.
Jordan, a Brooklin native who had dozens of friends and family in the stands for the homecoming game in Oshawa, finished with two assists from the blueline.
Chenard made 19 saves in the win, while Bickle stopped 27 taking the loss. The Attack outshot Oshawa 30-21 while going 1 for 5 on the power play; Oshawa finished 1 for 4.
Saturday night, the Attack host the North Bay Battalion at 7:30 p.m., at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre.