Omran Wahidy

Under a roof-shaking ovation, with fans on their feet at the Scotiabank Saddledome, the Roughnecks officially made Dane Dobbie ‘Forever A Roughneck’ on Friday night, but the Vancouver Warriors played the spoiler role and took an 11-10 victory in overtime.

With alumni, family, and fans on hand to honour the longtime captain, the emotion carried into a barn burner of a game.

Tanner Cook led the way scoring four goals and Aden Walsh was solid in the pipes posting 42-saves in the loss.

THE NUMBERS:

Tyler Pace – 7 pts (2G, 5A)

Haiden Dickson – 7 pts (2G, 5A)

Tanner Cook – 6 pts (4G, 2A)

Aden Walsh – 42/53 saves

The Warriors kicked off the scoring and it was a familiar face in Curtis Dickson with the goal, but the Roughnecks responded just over a minute later off a beautiful diving play from Brayden Mayea to even it up two and a half minutes into the first quarter.

After a scoring drought for the next ten minutes of the first quarter, Marcus Klarich and Cook traded goals just minutes apart to keep the game tied up at the end of the first.

The offence ramped up in the second quarter when the Riggers went down 5-3 due to three-goals in six minutes for Vancouver.

The response came just 32 seconds later when Cook ripped home his second of the night, followed up by Riley Loewen to breathe some life into the ‘Necks and tie it up at 5-5.

Vancouver kept their foot on the pedal until halftime, scoring two more goals to take a 7-5 lead after two quarters.

The momentum continued for Vancouver with three-straight goals in the third quarter to extend the lead to five.

Haiden Dickson stopped the bleeding with a beautiful shot that went over the shoulders of Del Bianco.

The game shifted back in Calgary’s favour when Tyler Pace followed that up with a couple clutch goals to reach nine on the season and put the game back In reach for the Riggers.

Cook sniped home his second hat-trick of the season with a shot near the top of the restraining line. He wasn’t done there. On the following offensive possession he made an unbelievable diving effort for the game tying goal, making it five-straight unanswered goals to make it 10-10, sending the game to overtime.

Curtis Dickson scored the game winning goal in extra-time o close out the night.

UP NEXT:

The Calgary Roughnecks are back on the road in Edmonton for the NLL Unboxed game against the Georgia Swarm on January 16th at 8 p.m. The Riggers are back at home on January 30th for Indigenous Celebration night to take on the Saskatchewan Rush at 7:00 p.m. Get tickets here!

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