HAMILTON, Ont. - Simon Gysbers scored in overtime with less than a minute remaining as the Toronto Marlies defeated the Hamilton Bulldogs 5-4 in American Hockey League action Friday.
Carter Ashton, Jake Gardiner, Mike Zigomanis and Greg McKegg also scored for the Marlies (3-2-1), while Ben Scrivens stopped 35 of 39 shots.
Mike Blunden, Brendan Gallagher, Frederic St-Denis and Gabriel Dumont had goals for the Bulldogs (2-3-0).
The Marlies opened the scoring at 6:17 of the first, when Ashton chipped in a rebound past an outstretched goalie Peter Delmas for his first goal of the season.
The lead was short-lived, however, as Hamilton tied it 21 seconds later when Scrivens mishandled the puck behind his net and it bounced weakly to Bulldog forward Joonas Nattinen. He found Blunden with a short centring pass, and the winger tapped it in.
Scrivens produced a flurry of saves early in the second to preserve the tie, but the deadlock was broken at 8:51, when Gardiner's slap shot from the point beat a screened Delmas. The goal was Gardiner's third of the season.
