After his Edina White team claimed the Prairie Shootout Squirt B championship, goaltender Peter Mollison was all smiles, with good reason.  

In addition to winning the game, Mollison recorded a spectacular shutout, stopping 25 shots as Edina White defeated an exhausted and undermanned Cedar Rapids (IA) squad 3-0 on Sunday afternoon at the Eden Prairie Community Center. 

Making 25 saves is impressive by itself, but it was the way Mollison made his saves that brought the sizable Edina contingent to their feet time and time again. 

Breakaway attempts? Mollison with the save.

Point-blank shots from close range? Mollison with the save. 

When you thought there was no way he could’ve stopped that shot? Mollison with the save. 

Edina White saw three different players score, as Zach Hamerski, Liam Hanrahan, and Jack Wilde all tallied the scoresheet for the Hornets. 

After a scoreless first period, Hamerski got the scoring started by ripping a shot from the blue into the upper corner of the Cedar Rapids net at the 13:22 mark of the second period.

Hanrahan added an unassisted goal three minutes later to stretch the Edina White lead to 2-0. 

Wilde’s goal was perhaps the most dramatic, as he slipped the puck past Jr. RoughRiders’ goalie Shane Lochner while falling to the ice, giving Edina White a three-goal lead and snuffing out any chance of a Cedar Rapids comeback. 

While they may not have scored a goal, Cedar Rapids put forth an admirable effort considering that the Jr. RoughRiders started the game with just nine skaters, and that number dropped to eight after a game-ending injury.

Lochner, technically in the Mite age bracket by Minnesota standards (born in Sep. of ’06), finished a strong game with 17 saves.