Wisborg, Sweden- The Thunder Bay Timberwolves traveled across the Atlantic for their first road trip of this young season, and skated out of Sweden with their third win in a row to start the season.
>>>Rookie, John Tavares opened the scoring at 2:07 in the first for his first career CCHL goal from Douglas Murray and Erik Johnson. Tavares streaked in front of Wisborg's Tuukka Rask and tipped Murray's shot five hole before the Finnish tender could close his legs.
>>>"It's been a good start for this entire team," said Tavares. "I knew my chance would come and wasn't really pushing the issue. It's a wonderful feeling."
>>>Milan Michalek answered for the Donuts at 4:25 to tie things up.
>>>Both hockey clubs would exchange another set of goals from Thunder Bay's Marc Savard and Wisborg's Scott Gomez to close out the opening period tied 2-2.
>>>Mike Fisher opened up the second period scoring with his fifth of the season from TJ Oshie and Antti Miettinen at 4:17.
>>>But once again, Wisborg answered back with some slick stick work from Sam Gagner that fooled Brian Elliott at 15:07.
>>>The 3-3 tie would hold throughout the third period and the game went to extras.
>>>With the Donuts pinching off what looked like a botched line change by the Timberwolves, Elliott stoned the chance and his rebound was pounced on by Erik Johnson and carried to the red line where TJ Oshie and Mike Fisher took the puck in on a 2-on-1 where Fisher faked a pass back to Oshie and scored the game-winner at 2:16 into overtime.
>>>"We made too many mistakes, but countered nicely tonight," said Fisher after the game. "We never really took control of the game like we had intended, but it's nice to be on the back-end of a goal-for-goal game. Good win, but we need to clean things up against Reykjavik."
>>>The Timberwolves boarded their plane immediately after the game for the roughly three hour flight to Iceland where they will play the 2-1 Puffin on Wednesday.
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