Invicta Dynamos bounced back from a heavy defeat against Chelmsford Chieftains last time out to take the same team to overtime on Sunday.

The Mos were beaten 6-1 by the Chieftains last week, but on home ice, they held the visitors to a 3-3 draw, only losing out as the game went to overtime.

Head coach Karl Lennon felt the previous week’s scoreline was a harsh one and his men proved they can mix it with the leading sides.

Lennon said: “I don't think that last result was a true reflection of the game, but that's the nature of hockey.

“Sometimes a few goals at the end of a game can skew the performance a little bit.

“We worked really hard on how we wanted to play against them and how to negate their strengths, and we did a good job.

“We made it incredibly frustrating for them at times to work their way into our end, trying to stop the problem before it becomes one.”

The Mos took the lead in the game with Oli Bronnimann’s impressive approach player teeing up Mads Thune and he finished well.

Lennon’s men then came out on the wrong side of what the coach felt were “two soft refereeing decisions” and from the two powerplays, the Chiefs scored, to lead 2-1.

Former Mos forward Tom Soar added a third but Jacob Ranson struck to get the home side back within striking distance of the Chiefs. Luca Pascale levelled it up in the third period, and that’s how it stayed, as the game went to a three-on-three overtime.

With just over two minutes played, the visitors clinched the OT win.

Lennon said: “We had a couple of looks ourselves on goal and missed, and they broke one-on-one and Grant Bartlett has been one of the top scorers in the division for the past three or four seasons. He was very patient with his finish.

“We picked up a point, which is a vast improvement from the week before and it’s just a shame we didn’t get a result that matched the performance.”

The Mos were without Dan Scott on the night as he’s picked up a serious arm injury while captain Aaron Connolly was missing due to the birth of his son the day before.

“Sunday came too soon, really, for him to be with us,” said the coach.

“It's an important moment in his life and we wanted to make sure that we tried to get the result for him, because I know he wanted to be with us.

“I think on a different night, with the full availability that we could have had at our disposal, then I think the result might have been a little bit different. That's the way it is over a season.

“You can't have everything the way you want it, and perfect, and you've just got to roll with what you have. The guys played well Sunday. I can't put a fault on any of them.

“There were definitely positives. The performance was good. The intensity was good and the team we're playing is good as well. We can't sort of underestimate them. We were, generally speaking, quite happy with that.”

Connolly is expected back this weekend as the Mos face Slough Jets away in the Challenge Cup on Saturday and then host Swindon Wildcats II on Sunday in South Division 1.

Lennon said: ”In the words of Roy Keane, ‘If he's not breastfeeding, he should be there!’ For us, it's a matter of just getting him back in the line-up. That will inevitably help us massively for the weekend.”

The Mos have already lost their opening three Challenge Cup fixtures but the coach will want to see that his men can give the Jets problems.

He said: “We had a very good performance against them a few weeks back, narrowly losing to an empty-net goal at the end of that game.

“We know we can match them. We're under no illusions that we've got the capabilities to do it. We just have to put that performance together on the night.

“They're a good side, so it's a good opportunity for us to play around with how we might want to tackle a team like Slough, because they have a very distinct way of playing.”

The Wildcats head to Gillingham on Sunday after making a decent start to their league campaign.

Lennon said: “We know they've been good across the course of the season.

“They're a very young team and they’re coached by a really solid coach, who I've managed to play with in my career as well, Ken Forshee.

“They'll know all of the right things from him. We cannot and will not underestimate them and their capabilities, because it seems that some other teams have done that already so far this season and have come up short.”