Everything went right in the first half of Saturday's game for the Port Moody Black Panthers.
Then it all went wrong.
The Cats let a 3-1 lead evaporate, gave up the tying goal on a giveaway and an own goal in overtime in a 4-3 defeat to the Aldergrove Kodiaks.
The result at Port Moody Rec Complex dropped the Cats to one win and one OT loss for three points to open the Pacific International Jr. 'B' hockey league campaign.
"The way I look at is we got one-and-a-half wins out of two," said Black Panthers GM Ron Luniw. "Inside my mind, we were the better club. We outshot them [47-39] and maybe 10 more missed the net that could have gone in."
Timothy Coish and Rino Minni both scored powerplay goals for the Cats, while a James Benz shorthanded tally staked PoMo to a 3-1 lead midway through the second period. It was 3-2 going into the third.
The Cats host the Grandview Steelers on Saturday, 7:45 p.m.
