SUPERIOR INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE
SIJHL COMMUNICATIONS
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Release Date: Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012
North Stars and Wilderness skate to home ice victories
THUNDER BAY, Ont. – Both the Thunder Bay North Stars and Minnesota Wilderness skated to home ice victories Wednesday in the Superior International Junior Hockey League Wednesday evening.
THUNDER BAY NORTH STARS 9 DRYDEN ICE DOGS 4 – The North Stars scored four times on the power play en route to the romp over the visiting Ice Dogs.
Mitchell Fox and affiliate Cody Fraser had a goal and three assists apiece to pace Thunder Bay offensively.
Matt Kaarela tallied twice and set-up another while Mathias Gardiman had a couple of markers as well.
Cory Lacosse, Dylan Mascarin and Alex Vaillant added the other efforts for the North Stars with Mascarin also picking up two assists.
Tyler Walsh, Jesse Linner, Chris Sitko and Tyler Newsome countered for Dryden who trailed 2-1 after the first period and 6-1 following 40 minutes.
Jayme Brattengeier made 39 saves to pick up the win in net for Thunder Bay who improved to 6-2 while the Ice Dogs slipped to 5-2 after claiming victories in their opening five contests.
Kim Wildhaber started for Dryden and suffered the loss allowing four goals on 29 shots. Josh Olsther had 16 stops on 19 shots in relief.
MINNESOTA WILDERNESS 5 MINNESOTA IRON RANGERS 3 – The league-leading Wilderness jumped out 3-0 lead after one period and held on for the victory over the visiting Iron Rangers.
Jake Larson, Brian Drapluk and Jake Maxson notched those opening frame markers to send the home side on their way.
After Jay Routheau put the Iron Rangers on the board a minute into second stanza Michael MacKinnon restored the Wilderness cushion at 2:49.
Luke Karakas made it a two-goal game after 40 minutes as he scored midway through the contest.
Gus Karkinen made it a 4-3 game with 10:52 to go in regulation, but MacKinnon’s second of the night late in the contest finished off the scoring.
Shots on goal favoured the Wilderness 38-22 with Gordy Defiel picking up the win and Chase Hollander suffering the loss.
On the season the Wilderness are now 7-1 while the Iron Rangers are 3-4.