Gary Moskalyk Recaps the first two games of the second round.
 | AT DRYDEN GM ICE DOGS |  | ||
| Max Roby scored two of Dryden's five power play goals as the Ice Dogs defeated Red Lake 6-3 to take game one of the semi-final series. Roby added two assists and Carson Devine had a goal and two helpers to lead the pack. It was Dryden's first game in 20 days. Rylan Oatman caught Red Lake on a bad line change, going high glove side on Nick Peters for a 1-0 Dryden lead. Quinn Szpak went high blocker side on Kellan Mooney at 6:06 of the first to tie it, scoring his fourth on a Miners' power play. Dryden went ahead 2-1 12 seconds into a power play with Payton Hu doing the damage. Dryden scored the first two of four second period goals, both on the power play. Devine struck at 22 seconds on a one-timer. Roby got his first at 6:25 on an over-the-shoulder snipe just under the bar for a 4-1 Ice Dog lead. Nathan Dann responded for Red Lake, notching his sixth from the slot on a Red Lake 5-on-3. Matthew MacPherson got his second of the playoffs at 14:16 to narrow the Dryden lead to one. The Miners' captain walked in from the blue-line and wired in a wrist shot glove side. Dryden added two power play goals in the third to seal the deal. Paulsen scored on Peters' doorstep at 1:40 as did Roby at 8:10. Final shots favoured Dryden 33-18. Hu had two assists for three points and Paulsen, selected league MVP, added a helper for Dryden. MacPherson had a two point night and Kayne Pawlick had two helpers for Red Lake. Dryden was 5-6 on the power play while Red Lake was 2-4 with the man advantage. Attendance was 867. |
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| The Dryden Ice Dogs broke open a 3-3 game with seven third period goals to defeat Red Lake 10-4, taking a 2-0 series lead. The Rylan Oatman, Evan Mayer, Jordan Wales line tallied 10 combined points, and Eli Antoine counted a pair of unassisted goals to buoy the attack. Nathan Dann replied with a pair for the Miners, giving him eight goals in the post season. It was anyone's game through two periods. Carson Devine got the Ice Dogs off to a fast start, scoring on the power play at 1:57 of the first. Kellan Mooney gloved a shot but couldn't hold on and Dann was right there to deposit the rebound to tie the game. Matthew MacPherson scored from a sharp angle to give Red Lake a 2-1 lead. McLaren Paulsen won a face-off deep in the Miners' zone after a late icing call and Max Roby wristed in a bullet with two seconds left in the period to tie the game at 2-2. Sullivan Menard got his first tally of the play-offs a one-timer high glove side to give the Miners a 3-2 lead at 7:51. Oatman replied for Dryden 1:36 later on a centering pass from Mayer to knot the score. Bryson Carlyle rang one off the post with four minutes left and the Miners also survived a 5-on-3 in the latter stages of second. Dryden forged an 8-3 lead by the 8:18 mark of the third Karson Kerbes beat Nick Peters with a wrist shot at 1:09. Jordan Wales backhanded in a third shot after Peters made a pair of saves at 1:31. Antoine scored unassisted at 3:07 on a Red Lake giveaway. Emmanuel Nkombou scored shorthanded and unassisted on a wrap around at 5:44. Peters was hurt on the Nkombou goal after a Red Lake defender slid into him on the initial save. Kerbes, Wales, Antoine and Nkombou all scored their first goals and Ryan Heuser, Wales and McKale Paul all picked up their first playoff helpers during the barrage. Koen Webber came in relief for Red Lake and was victimized by a wide open Oatman after a centering feed from Mayer at 8:18 making it 8-3. Dann got his eighth at 10:37 to shave a goal off the lead. Even down 8-4 it looked as though the Miners could yet muster a comeback. Antoine re-established the five-goal spread with an unassisted shorty at 10:57, and Wales capitalized after a persistent Dryden forecheck paid off at 13:34 to render the 10-4 verdict. Peters stopped 35 of 42, and Webber made five saves on eight shots in the Red Lake net. Mooney was busy, saving 36 of 40 for his second consecutive win. Wales finished with two goals and two assists. Oatman had two goals and a helper, Mayer had three assists, and Roby added a helper for Dryden. Dann was the lone two-point man for Red Lake. The Miners took 22 of 42 penalty minutes. The Ice Dogs were 1-7 on the power play, adding two shorthanded goals while killing off all six Red Lake power plays. Games three and four are in Red Lake Tuesday and Wednesday night. Attendance was 736. |
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 | AT KAM RIVER FIGHTING WALLEYE |  | ||
| Jett Mintenko scored two and Kam River outshot Thunder Bay 45-31 as the Fighting Walleye took a 5-3 decision over the Stars in game one of the SIJHL semifinals. Kam River opened up a 3-1 first period lead. Defenceman Edwin Liang wristed in a top corner glove side shot on Keenan Marks for his first of the playoffs at 5:05 for a 1-0 Walleye lead. Tyler Jordan cashed in Tag Bryson's rebound for his sixth at 13:46 to tie it. Mintenko got his two goals back-to-back at 16:28 and 19:54. He buried a juicy rebound on the power play and, with time running out, backhanded one in five-hole for the 3-1 count. It was his third of the post season. Kam River and Thunder Bay swapped second period goals. Cayden Adams upped Kam River's lead to 4-1 when his point shot was inadvertently deflected in by a North Stars' defender. Alex Remenda deflected Max Buffone's point shot past Ashton Sadauskas at 16:28 for his fourth on a Stars' power play to narrow the spread to two. Sam Sargent restored the three-goal lead at 2:25 of the third with a wrist shot glove side. Sargent's goal was his first, with Fagnilli getting the primary assist and Adams drawing his first assist of the play offs. Peter Forester narrowed the lead to 5-3 at 11:10 by corralling the puck and firing it home on a 4-on-4. Liang drew a penalty at 14:19 but Thunder Bay couldn't capitalize on the man advantage. Marks was pulled for an extra attacker at 17:20. Callum Halls rang one off the post with seconds remaining for Kam River. Sadauskas picked up his fifth playoff win. Kam River took 11 minor penalties to Thunder Bay's eight. The Stars were 1-6 with the man advantage while the Walleye were 1-3. Adams joined Mintenko in the two point club with his goal and assist. A capacity crowd of 872 cheered on. |
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| Jacob Lamoureux scored at 4:43 of overtime as the Fighting Walleye took a 2-0 series lead with a 3-2 win over Thunder Bay. Secondary scoring took center stage for the Walleye--always a boon for the coaching staff--and Ashton Sadauskas won his sixth playoff game in a row. Kam River outshot Thunder Bay 11-6 in a scoreless first. Kam River scored the first two of the second frame. Defenceman Edwin Liang, looking like a forward, scored for the second time in two games. He left his post on the blue-line, accepted a pass from Amar Powar, and dangled Keenan Marks on a 4-on-4 to open the scoring at 11:17. Carter Nailen got his first of the playoffs three minutes later on a Walleye power play, sniping from the high slot. Alex Remenda replied for Thunder Bay less than a minute later, squeezing a loose puck past Sadauskas on a Stars' power play to narrow the lead to 2-1. Marcellus Francis went down early in the second period on a clean hit, but returned to action in time to assist on Remenda's fifth goal. Affiliate Max Mikus collected the primary assist, his third of the post season. The North Stars tied the contest at 11:05 of the third. Francis' cross-ice pass hit Jarred Feist on the tape. Feist got his second of the playoffs and Francis garnered his fifth helper. Sadauskas stopped Matthew Lysak on a breakaway nine minutes into the third. Callum Halls had a goal waved off for a high stick at the 12-minute mark. Thunder Bay couldn't click on a late power play. Sadauskas blockered away a tip from close in to preserve the tie. Francis and Cohen Tangedal had good looks for Thunder Bay early in overtime. Lamoureux' game winning dash starting from his own zone. Skating down the left wing, cutting to the centre of the rink, Lamoureux wristed one past the glove of Marks from the high slot for his fourth of the post season. Thunder Bay was 1-4 on the power play while Kam River was 1-3. The Walleye took six of the 11 minor penalties called. Attendance was a capacity 892. Games three and four will be at the Fort William Gardens Tuesday and Wednesday. |
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