It was a offensive shootout at the Mel Hegland Uniplex in La Ronge between the hometown Ice Wolves and visiting Kindersley Jr. Klippers. Trenton Curtis started off his big night with a powerplay goal for La Ronge, off a faceoff win which went back to Parker Layton, who passed it to Dylan Handel, who found Curtis in the high slot and he made no mistake beating Kindersley goaltender Logan Falk through traffic. That would be all the scoring in the first period.

Kindersley came out with a much better effort in the second period, taking the play to the Ice Wolves outshooting them by a wide margin. However, the Ice Wolves doubled their lead on a giveaway just inside the Klippers zone, as Curtis scored an absolute beauty faking the shot and going backhand upstairs over Falk. 

Kindersley answered, capitalizing on a La Ronge giveaway just 29 seconds later, as newcomer Joel Webb caused a turnover at the side of the Ice Wolves net, and Cash Arntsen buried it to cut the lead in half. Kindersley kept coming, and Logan Cox walked in and fed it over to Adam Paplawski who deked around everyone but was denied by an unbelievable paddle save by Dawson Smith, however Cox followed up on the play smartly and tucked it in to even the score at two.

La Ronge then retook the lead on a wrap around goal to Ethan Strik. Undaunted, Kindersley tied the score once again, as Cox got his second of the evening on the powerplay, off a scramble in front of the La Ronge net. Things were looking like they would stay tied heading into to third, but Curtis snuck off the bench on a line change, received a great pass from Rylan Silzer, went in alone and beat Falk through the five hole on a nice deke to complete his hat trick. This turned out to be a back breaking goal for Kindersley, as it happened just 42 seconds after the Cox marker.

La Ronge took that momentum into the third, as Dylan Handel scored off a Jacob Visentini shot to double their lead early in the period. Then with Kindersley pressing later in the period, they turned the puck over at the offensive blueline which turned into a 3-on-2 for La Ronge. Silzer took a nice pass from Lleyton Shearon, went into the slot and beat Falk over the blocker to make it 6-3.

Then some rough stuff occurred, as Jacob Dewitt cross checked Walker Jerome. At the same stoppage, Kindersley's Nathan DeGraves received an early shower with a ten minute misconduct and La Ronge's Strik was a given a unsportsmanlike conduct minor penalty. Then just over a minute later Josh Morton paired off with Visentini in a scrum and Ethan Hilbig was pushing and shoving with Dallyn Peekeekoot as well. All four were sent to the the dressing room. 

La Ronge got one more for good measure, with defenseman Connor Abric scoring to ice the 7-3 win for La Ronge. Kindersley will get a chance for some revenge tonight, as the teams will tangle once again from the Mel Hegland Uniplex at 7:30 pm. Country 104 will have the broadcast, with the Murlin Electronics pregame show beginning at 7:15 pm.