In a meeting of two Top 10 NOW Rankings teams, Prior Lake (#5, 6-2-0) traveled to Bloomington to take on the Jaguars (#8, 6-3-1) in a District 6 game. After a scoreless first period with very few scoring chances, the Lakers went on the Power Play early in the second period. Star Defensman Jack Kennedy found a seam in the Jaguars Penalty Kill and fired a wrist shot that hit traffic in front and beat Jefferson goalie Evan Redepenning to give the Lakers a 1-0 lead. Midway through the second, the Lakers scored one of their two odd goals of the game. With the puck in the Jefferson zone, Kennedy fired a shot toward Redepenning that appeared pop into the air. Laker forward Jackson Jutting batted the puck down past Redepenning into the net. The official ruling was Kennedy scored the goal and Jutting did not touch the puck. Nevertheless, the score was 2-0 in favor of the Visitors. Late in the second, Nathan Johannes got a loose puck and fed Tyler Rollwagon who beat Cade Kujawski on a pretty bar down wrist shot to cut the Laker lead to 2-1 after the second period.

With the lead cut in two and a fresh sheet of ice, YHH looked for Jefferson to get back in the game to start the third. Enter the second non-traditional goal of the day for the Lakers.  Jack Patton took a pass from a streaking Jutting and fired the puck at Redepenning. Redepenning appeared to have made a save and a face-off looked to be set up to his right. But after further review, the puck beat the Jaguar Goalie and the lead was 3-1 with 12 minutes to play.

Neither team would score to finish the game, but there was plenty of excitement down the stretch. The Lakers, up 3-1 were called for two late penalties one with 1:20 and another with :43 to go. A flurry of chances but no concrete opportunities. Much credit to the strong Laker defense and Kujawski slammed the door on the anemic Jaguar attack on Saturday.

Players to Watch: Prior Lake's Jack Kennedy was great on Saturday, He controlled the play on both ends of the rink. He did find the scoresheet which is important, but more important was his play in his own zone. Jefferson has a nice cast of players, which will make them a contender come March. Nick Lindquist, son of Jaguar Varsity Head Coach Jeff, played with a lot of passion and seemed to really give the Lakers trouble when he was on the ice.