Knoxville Ice Bears

Eric Slais lifts Ice Bears in Overtime, 4-3

date: 11/13/2011

Just a little space and a bit of luck was all Knoxville forward Eric Slais needed Saturday night.

Slais’ goal at the 1:19 mark of overtime lifted the Ice Bears to a 4-3 Southern Professional Hockey Leaguevictory over Columbus in front of 4,161 fans at Scout Night inside the Civic Coliseum.

Slais, a second-year Ice Bear and former Brown University player, got the puck on the boards almost behind Cottonmouths goalie Ian Vigier and fired a shot that bounced off the goalie and into the net.

“I just kind of followed up a rebound,” Slais said. “I kind of saw a little bit of daylight in between the post and the goalie and I just threw it to the net, and luckily it went off his back and into the net.  It was kind of a lucky goal, but we’ll take it in OT.”

They play host to Augusta next Friday in their only game of the weekend.

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