Box Score He might not have been wearing a costume, but Laurentian Voyageurs goaltender Alain Valiquette was superman for Halloween.

Valiquette made 34 saves in regulation and overtime, before going a perfect 6-for-6 in the shootout as the Voyageurs topped the Waterloo Warriors 4-3 on Friday night in Sudbury.

Nick Esposito registered a goal and an assist, and Vincent Llorca added three helpers for the Voyageurs, who improved to 5-3-0 on the season. The Warriors got two-point performances from Kain Allicock (Markham) and Matt Kennedy (Oro Medonte) in the loss, as their record dropped to 4-3-1.

Although Valiquette was the story, Warriors goaltender Mike Morrison (Hamilton) was solid in defeat, making 24 stops and forcing the shootout to go six rounds.

The first period had plenty of pace and physical play, but it lacked offense from either side. Valiquette and Morrison were both sharp out of the gate, and the opening frame yielded a scoreless draw.

The game was over 32 minutes old before Allicock opened the scoring, with Riley Sonnenburg (Cambridge) and Adam Bignell (Kitchener) drawing assists. That first goal set off a flurry of scoring to close the period - Laurentian's Michael MacDonald and Brad MacDonald scored less than two minutes apart to give the Voyageurs the lead, before Warriors captain Joe Underwood (Canton) cashed in on the power play in the period's final minute to make the score 2-2 after 40 minutes.

The tie was short-lived in the third, as Esposito rifled one past Morrison to restore the Laurentian lead just over 3 minutes into the period. The Warriors responded by carrying the play throughout the final stanza, and they were finally rewarded in the game's closing seconds. With Morrison on the bench for the extra attacker, Kennedy beat Valiquette to tie the game at 3-3 and send it into overtime.

Five minutes of 4-on-4 and five more of 3-on-3 solved nothing, as did the first five rounds of the shootout. Valiquette and Morrison were perfect through a combined 11 shooters before Nicolas Dionne gave the home team the extra point with the shootout winner.

The Warriors will now try to take 3 of 4 points on their northern Ontario trip, when they face the Nipissing Lakers on Saturday in North Bay. Puck drop is slated for 7:00 pm.

Notes: The Warriors went 1-for-4 on the power play, while Laurentian went 0-for-1...Bignell's second-period assist was the first point of his CIS career...Warriors forward Colin Behenna (Waterloo) was assessed a 5-minute major and a game misconduct for a check to the head in the second period.