GUELPH, ONT.—The Guelph Storm are Ontario Hockey League champions after a pair of late goals that Kerby Rychel will remember the rest of his life.

Rychel’s second goal of the game with 26.3 seconds remaining gave the Storm a 4-3 come-from-behind win Friday night over the North Bay Battalion in Game 5 — good for their first OHL title since 2004.

Before Rychel could play hero late in the game, he was already the Storm’s saviour when he scored his first of the night with just under five minutes remaining in the third period to tie the score, easily depositing a second rebound behind hard luck North Bay goalie Jake Smith.

That set up Rychel’s dramatic goal in the final seconds, as he went hard to the net and snapped a rebound past Smith’s blocker.

“I blacked out. It’s the biggest goal of my life honestly. Words can’t really describe it,” Rychel said. “I still can’t believe it. I kind of feel like I’m in a dream right now.”

It has been a dream series for the Storm, who came back to win Game 1 in overtime, Game 3 in the final 30 seconds with two quick goals and then the capper in Game 5.

“That’s the way it goes. You have to play right to the buzzer,” said Storm head coach Scott Walker, enjoying his fourth year behind the Guelph bench.

“I have a great group of guys. They never stopped believing. They love each other. They play hard for each other, so it was great.”

Walker pointed to the dramatic Game 3 comeback as the turning point in the series, when the Storm finally showed the form that won the Western Conference.

“We played hard and we have a great bunch of guys, and when they’re playing they’re hard to stop. I don’t know what will happen (in London), but that’s the way you play.”

Rychel agreed with his coach’s assessment.

“We didn’t stop believing,” Rychel said. “I really don’t think we had our best game tonight, but I thought we could pull it out. Once we had it 3-3 then it was anybody’s game.”