{"id":63064,"date":"2026-03-15T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=63064"},"modified":"2026-03-15T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:30:00","slug":"hines-ot-winner-puts-jr-c-pens-on-verge-of-advancing-to-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=63064","title":{"rendered":"Hines OT winner puts Jr C Pens on verge of advancing to championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56557&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LANTZ:<\/strong> The East Hants Ryson Construction Penguins are a win away from advancing to the championship final in the N.S. Jr C Hockey League playoffs thanks to Ethan Hines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hines scored the double overtime winner at 6:56 to lift the Pens to a hard fought 3-2 victory over Eastern Shore Mariners in Game four of the two teams best-of-seven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much like Matt Tkachuk did with the Florida Panthers in the playoffs a couple years ago, as soon as Hines scored he led the teammates to the dressing room without much on ice celebrating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal was unassisted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Game five in the semi-final series goes Monday night at the Keith Miller arena in the East Hants Sportsplex in Lantz. Puck drop is scheduled for 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56511&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sam Rogers scored both East Hants goals in regulation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pens led 2-1 midway through the third period, before the Mariners pressured and tied it with 1:05 left in regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The teams played a scoreless 10 minute first overtime period, before coming out for the 20 minute overtime ready to battle for the victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assists went to Hines, Garrett MacLean, and Nathan Langille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gabe Rendell stopped 46 of 48 pucks fired his way for the goaltending win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56560&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANTZ: The East Hants Ryson Construction Penguins are a win away from advancing to the championship final in the N.S. Jr C Hockey League playoffs thanks to Ethan Hines. Hines scored the double overtime winner at 6:56 to lift the Pens to a hard fought 3-2 victory over Eastern Shore Mariners in Game four of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[196,3584,10556,54,595,10027],"class_list":["post-63064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-east-hants","tag-east-hants-ryson-construction-penguins","tag-eastern-shore-mariners","tag-hockey","tag-lantz","tag-ns-jr-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}