In their last meeting with the Notre Dame Hounds, the Kindersley Jr. A Klippers, the Klippers outshot the Hounds on the first period before being outshot the next two but managed to hold down the fort for the win. In a similar trend, the Klippers outshot the Hounds Wednesday afternoon before being out shot through the rest of the game, but the Hounds took this one 7-4.

Bolstered by the crowd of 1300 thanks to schools from around Kindersley ending early so kids could come see the game, the Klippers came out strong in the first five minutes of the game with a number of good chances. Five minutes in, and Josh Danis was finally able to score his first goal of the season after Jaxon Georget fired a shot and Danis was able to tap in the rebound to give his team the lead.

After that, the Klippers got their first look on the powerplay 30 seconds later and their first unit seemed to generate a number of chances, but the second unit seemed to struggle off the hop. At the 15 minute mark, the Klippers second powerplay seemed to warrant a few better results, cycling the puck well but it seemed the shots that got through were being blocked by a tight knit defensive penalty kill.

With two minutes left in the period, the Hounds scored their first goal. Eliot Dutil fired a shot that Brett Sweet was able to kick aside and slide over to get in front of the rebound, but Connor Nolan made a slick move in the slot to drag the puck around Sweet to tie the game.

After 1: Klippers 1 - 1 Hounds, shots 12-12

The second period saw a drop in the level of play for the Klippers and the Hounds took advantage. An early penalty from Brenden Lee took the wind out of the sails in the first minute, and after the penalty ended Dane Probe scored an unassisted goal after picking up a rebound in a scramble in the slot at 4:32.

Just 18 seconds after the goal, Cash Arntsen was called for boarding, and nine seconds after that the Hounds scored once again. Kevin Anderson won the faceoff to Connor Nolan, he sent it to Jaryd Sych, then Sam Kroon, and back into middle for Dutil who fired the puck in after every hound got a touch on the puck.

On their third powerplay opportunity, the Klippers got a goal from Matt Mazzocchi who had not scored since October 29th. From the left side of the point, Mazzocchi started to move in towards the net with some space before firing a fantastic wrist shot wide side to beat Ryley Osland's glove and get the Klippers back within one.

That's as close as they would get as the Hounds would score three more goals in the span of 1:42 from Nolan for his second that saw Brett Sweet get pulled and be replaced by Brayden Schenstead filling in in net, then Probe scored his second, and then Nolan for his third of the game and this time on the powerplay.

After 2: Klippers 2 - 6 Hounds, shots 17-6 Hounds in the period, 29-18 Hounds overall

The third period was a much less offensive affair, but the gloves dropped a few times throughout. The first fight came in front of the Klippers bench when Evan Vanden Heuvel and Nathan Degraves took one another out near the wall, both men stood up and shed the gloves in an overall solid tilt while Degraves earning a holding call before the gloves were dropped.

Two minutes later, with the Klippers on a powerplay, Brayden Koch fought Dane Probe after the two got aggressive with one another and Koch earned an extra roughing call. The Klippers came into the game with just five defencemen dressed, but after the fights they were down to just three. In a similar problem for the Hounds, they brought in 11 forwards to the game, but after the fights they were down to just three lines.

The Klippers scored a second powerplay goal before the halfway mark of the period when Brenden Lee was able to score his first of the season from right in the slot as he recieved a pass from the point from Liam Bell and another assist from Mazzocchi.

With the Hounds on the powerplay, the Klippers were able to score another goal with just over two minutes left to give them some hope that they could come back. After blocking a shot himself, Noah Lindsay went down the right side of the ice on a 2-on-1, but instead of passing he simply blew the shot past Osland for the unassisted goal and the Klippers eighth shorthanded goal of the game.

Unfortunetaly for the Klippers, the Hounds added an empty netter with seven seconds left thanks to Kevin Anderson, and that would seal it as the Klipper's third straight loss.

FINAL: Klippers 4 - 7 Hounds, shots 18-9 Hounds in the period, 47-27 Hounds overall