The Dawson Creek Junior Canucks put an end to their five-game winless slump in a big way on Friday night against the Fort St. John Huskies, scoring six goals in the third period to overcome a four-goal deficit and take the win 6-5. The Huskies scored once in the first period and three times in the second before the Canucks decided to play hockey in the third. “I think that the first period was pretty good,” Eric Fulton, head coach of the Canucks, told the media following Friday’s game at North Peace Arena in Fort St. John. “We took the play to them [Huskies] primarily. They got a goal there that made it 1-0, but I thought we won that period.” Fort St. John’s Tyler Norris gave the Huskies a 1-0 lead after 20 minutes despite the Canucks outshooting the Huskies 12-7. The floodgates opened in the second. “The second period was God-awful. I don’t know how to explain it,” said Fulton. “They put their skates on, their jerseys on, but their hearts, heads, hands, legs and all they needed to play hockey were all left in the room. When we came back into the third – a little fire and brimstone – I threatened that they’d walk home and I wasn’t joking, and they decided to come out and play hockey the way we can play hockey and that was nice to see.” After Cody Hildebrand, Taylor Greatrex and Robbie Sidhu extended Fort St. John’s lead in the second; the Canuck’s went to work in the third chipping away at the deficit. “I told them the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different result and that’s what we’ve been doing lately, thinking it’s going to get better, not taking the proverbial bull by the horns and wrestling it to the ground and kicking the crap out of it,” remarked Fulton. “To me it was heartless and it was weak, and they had to prove it not to me but to themselves that they can play this game.” Kyler Krantz, Justin Greyeyes, Brett Norman, Shelby Oldfield, Brennan Strasky heard their coach’s message scoring five straight for the Canucks before ten minutes were up in the final period. “One good thing about this team is its leaders. After I speak, they carry the flag for me quite well and they looked at each other and demanded better hockey out of each other,” added Fulton, whose team has struggled lately to produce offensively, only to score six goals in one period. The Huskies tied things up with a goal from Daylen Pearson, but it was Colton Gies who would play the hero scoring his 11th goal of the season with less than six minutes left before the final buzzer to give the Canucks the win and end the dry-spell. After a slow start in the first two periods Colten Anderson was the difference in the third backstopping the Canucks to a win. “Our goaltender, I didn’t think he played overly well in the first and second, but I thought in the third he shut the door and that’s all we asked him to do,” added Fulton. “The win was good for our guys. We had a hard last eight games.”