GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.– Mitch Callahan banged home a loose puck from the left side of the net with 3:40remaining on Wednesday to give the Grand Rapids Griffins their first lead of the night before Tomas Nosek scored into an empty cage in the final minute to seal a 4-2 victory over the San Jose Barracuda in Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals.
San Jose built an early 2-1 lead that held for more than 30 minutes until Matt Lorito’s equalizer on the power play 6:40 into the third period, the start of three unanswered goals by the Griffins that enabled them to seize a 2-1 series lead and maintain home-ice advantage over the West’s regular season champions.