Marco Sladoje has never experienced such a feeling of relief — and the same could likely be said for all of his Lakeshore Canadiens teammates as well as the Wheatley Omstead Sharks.
Exhausted physically and mentally as the clock ticked past 12:30 a.m. Thursday at the Wheatley Area Arena, Sladoje, 19, got the puck on a breakaway and snuck it by Sharks goalie Ethan Handley. That made it 5-4 for Lakeshore, ending the longest game in Provincial Junior Hockey League history and Wheatley’s season.
Lakeshore took the PJHL’s Stobbs Division best-of-seven semifinal 4 games to 2. The 60-team Junior C league has teams in communities across Ontario.
“I was just so relieved. I just put my hands up
