1-29-26 Westfield Bombers boys ice hockey at Greenfield (File Photos)
GREENFIELD – The Westfield High School boys ice hockey team just showed everyone in Western Mass that it’s not over until the final horn sounds.
Westfield junior forward Treygan Lemanski scored the equalizer and the game-winner as the Bombers rallied from a three-goal deficit with three goals in the final 2:06 of the third period to stun Greenfield, 4-3, Thursday matinee on the road at Collins-Moylan Skating Arena.
Lemanski scored twice within a 10-second span in the final minute of the contest.
“I heard my coach yell from the bench [to] make a play,” Lemanski explained. “I gave him a look … and right from there I scored those two goals.”
Lemanski’s first goal, the game-tying goal, came with 46.9 seconds remaining in regulation. A loose puck found the stick of Lemanski, who went top shelf right side to make it 3-3. He scored again with 37.4 ticks left. That goal stood as the game-winner.
“I was coming down the boards [with the puck],” Lemanski said. “I saw the defenseman turn his foot inside. That was my cue to go right in and go right by him. I just put it in the same spot.”
Westfield (8-6) held on for the final 37.4. Once the final seconds ticked away, the Bombers stormed the ice to celebrate the miraculous comeback.
“I think we’ve been playing good hockey lately and we just haven’t gotten the results that I feel like we deserved a lot of nights,” Westfield boys ice hockey coach Dominic Puntillo said, “so it was good this time to almost have the opposite happen where we’re down a little bit, we’re able to fight back and then close it out.”
The comeback officially got under way when junior forward Chase Liptak crashed the net and buried the puck with 2:06 showing on the third period clock to pull Westfield within one goal of a tie, 3-2.
“When it was 3-1, the whole bench was getting upset,” Liptak said. “We needed to score, needed to get a goal. … That’s what we needed to win, just keep burying pucks and we played with that edge.”
That wasn’t the case early on.
Despite a first period goal from Westfield senior center Joe Maffia, Greenfield (8-6-1) built a 3-1 lead behind goals from three different Green Wave players.
Greenfield scored its first goal 2:03 into the first period when Luca Siano skated the puck into the goal virtually untouched. Maffia tied the game 1-1 with 6:18 remaining in the first period when he stuffed the puck into the short side of the net for a power play goal.
Greenfield opened the second period scoring much like the first. With both teams saddled with a player in the box serving penalty time and playing 4-on-4 hockey, Chase Zraunig scored 1:50 into the period when he took a short pass up ice from Jack Laurie and broke free for a goal.
The Green Wave took a 3-1 lead with a power play goal when Laurie’s slapshot from the top of the crease slipped past the goalie with 3:13 remaining in the game, setting the stage for the dramatic comeback.
“I think the first two periods we played pretty well,” coach Puntillo said. “It was a couple pucks that we just didn’t handle correctly and there were one-on-twos that turned into breakaways so I wouldn’t say they were bad by any means. We knew we had to play a responsible game tonight, and I think for the most part the kids did. We had a couple pucks that just didn’t bounce our way.”
Instead, Westfield took matters into its own hands and created its own luck as time ticked away.
“I think when we play with a bit of an edge, we’re a tough team to beat,” coach Puntillo said. “There’s games and there’s times where we don’t have that intensity. I think when we may have it, good things happen for us for the most part.”
Lemanski said his team needs to continue to show heart like it did over the final 2:06 of the game.
“I just think we need to come together every single period, make hockey plays,” Lemanski said. “I think our team is probably the best in Western Mass with the forwards that we have. We just need to move the puck and score.”
Westfield will get to put that will to the test Saturday when the Bombers return to their home ice to face Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational-Technical High School (6-4-1) at Amelia Park, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
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