With the extra-time victory, the Marlies are now 11-5-3 on the road this season.
First Period
It wasn’t pretty at the back-end of the game, but Sheldon Keefe could not have asked for a better first-period effort from his team. All four lines were rolling as the Marlies had the Checkers reeling with high-tempo play and tenacity in every puck battle.
The fourth line nearly got Toronto on the board, but both Gabriel Gagne and Colin Greening were denied following an excellent zone entry by Dmytro Timashov.
Michal Hutchinson was merely an onlooker until the sixth minute of the game, when the Checkers recorded their first shot of the night — a great chance for Clark Bishop, who was stonewalled by the Marlies goaltender.