In the final dying seconds of Dylan Cozens’ WHL game, the called-up centre succeeded in scoring his first League goal.

Sunday night, in front of a home crowd of 3,306 in Lethbridge, Alta., Cozens donned a Hurricanes jersey after he was called up for the game against the Saskatoon Blades.

His club team was playing a showcase in Calgary the week before and management thought it would work out well to bring in Cozens to play a game with the Hurricanes.

“I was very excited,” said the 15-year-old Whitehorse native. “I was really nervous.”

Cozens made history in May when he became the first Yukoner to be drafted in the first round of the Bantam WHL league. He signed with the Hurricanes on May 25.

The Hurricanes were down 5-2 as the final seconds of the third period dripped away.

Skating fast, Lethbridge’s Egor Babenko brought the puck deep into Saskatoon’s end, trying to slip it past their goalie, but a scrum in front of the net formed and the puck went loose.

Cozens said it flipped onto the goalie’s back and from there he took possession and fired it into the net.

His goal lessened the game deficit to 5-3 and he said even though they lost, it “still felt great.”

Before the game his teammates had told him, “go to the net and it will come,” he said this morning from Lethbridge, “and they were right, it did.”

The Hurricanes’ loss to the Blades snapped an eight-game winning streak agains the Saskatchewan team that extended to the 2013-14 season.

Lethbridge sits third in the Eastern Conference Wild Card with a 7-12 record (including one overtime loss and two shoot-out losses).

Cozens said he has no games with his club team this week and may be called up to the Hurricanes once again on the weekend.