Bitten The Star In Thunderbirds Win At Laval To Take Series Lead

The Springfield Thunderbirds are moving closer and closer to the Calder Cup Finals.

Sparked by Will Bitten's hat trick, the Tbirds beat Laval Wednesday night 6-3 to take a 2 games to one series lead in the best of seven.

Laval got the scoring started at Place Bell with a goal from Rafael Harvey-Pinard which beat Joel Hofer nearly 6 minutes into the first period.

Nathan Todd tied it up before Will Bitten took the rest of the games into his hands.

Bitten with goals at 17:39 of the second period.

Then three straight in the third at the :35 mark. Then 5:59 and 17:02 of third. His last goal was unassisted.

Bitten becomes just the second Thunderbird ever to score four goals in a game and the first to ever do it in the postseason.

Game four is in Laval on Friday night. You can hear the game live at 6:45pm on Newsradio 560 WHYN.

(Photo provided by Springfield Thunderbirds)


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