For the entirety of the game, a pendulum consisting of two goals swung back-and-forth, with each team following a goal with another just a few minutes later.

Unfortunately for Team Minnesota, the pendulum picked its final resting spot on the side of Team Manitoba, as the players from the prairie rebounded from being down 2-0 to emerge with a 6-4 win. 

Logan Lutner and Pacey Adduono spotted Team Minnesota a 2-0 lead less than four minutes into the game, a lead that quickly evaporated as Jaxon Jacobson and Aiden Jacobson knotted the game at 2-2 for Manitoba. 

Brayden Thompson and J.P. Hurlbert scored in the second to give Team Manitoba a 4-2 lead entering the third, in which Minnesota’s Victor Plante and Lincoln Ayers Assad each scored within the first nine minutes to send the game into a dramatic last few minutes. 

However, Jacobson notched his second goal of the game on an unassisted effort, and Maddox Malmquist tapped in a backhanded shot on an empty Minnesota net for the game-clinching goal. 

Like the game before it, the team that had the hottest start eventually cooled off. 

Owen McHale and Xander Boutilier got the Boston Junior Bruins off to a 2-0 start in the first period, as the Junior Bruins held Western Selects to just two shots in the period. 

Thirty seconds into the second, the game made like a young man and headed west, as the Selects hung five goals in the second frame on Boston. Logan Stuart scored twice for the Selects, with Cooper Soller, Alexander Command, and Tomasz Marsden all chipping in single scores while pumping 11 shots on net. 

Luca Cannata scored a final goal for Boston to make the score 5-3 midway through the third period. Western Selects goaltender Morgan Stickney stood on her head in the third, rejecting 10 of 11 Boston shots on her way to 19 saves. 

It’s safe to say the Toronto squads were less-than-hospitable toward their American counterparts in Edmonton, as the Toronto Bulldogs piled on the fire that Toronto Pro Hockey had started in its 8-2 win over Team Pennsylvania Brick with a resounding 9-2 win over Team Minnesota.

The Bulldogs scored the game’s first nine goals, including four in the first period and including a powerplay tally by Jude Bray. Also scoring in the first for the Bulldogs were Ryan Yurkiw, Beckham Edwards, and Jacob Xu. Bray and Edwards each scored once in the second period, as the Bulldogs passed around, over, and through the Minnesota defense, routinely setting up tic-tac-toe scoring chances through superb passing. 

Toronto’s Jet Kwajah, Edwards, and Alex Mclean all scored within four minutes of each other, as it was pointed out during the broadcast that the post-goal high-fives and hugs took on a more generic and muted tone as the score increased.

Matthew Wallace finally got Team Minnesota on the scoresheet with a gorgeous end-to-end rush, finished and celebrated with panache. Pacey Adduono added an unassisted tally to close out the game for Team Minnesota. 

Goaltending a defense took center stage as Team Manitoba edged the Chicago Jr. Blackhawks 3-2, as neither netminder allowed a goal in the final period of the low-scoring tilt. Team Manitoba took a 2-0 lead after the first period on goals by Hudson Kowalchuk and Carter Kingerski, converting two of the rare scoring chances of the first frame.

The Chicago Jr. Blackhawks answered right back in the first 95 seconds of the second period, with Caden Dabrowski and Luca Cisternino netting goals to tie the game at 2-2 until Kingerski scored the eventual game-winner for Manitoba late in the second. 

Chicago goaltender Nathan Sutto made 14 saves and was named Second Star of the game, while his Manitoba counterpart Jake Windbiel stopped 12 shots. 

The Baha Men's classic roof-raiser "Who Let The Dogs Out?" was an appropriate choice of music for the beginning of the third period. 

The Toronto Bulldogs clearly understood the song meant for them to score goals, a command to which they obliged with two tallies to earn a 3-1 win over Team Brick Alberta to conclude Tuesday's slate of games. 
After a scoreless first that saw just seven combined shots (six by the Bulldogs), each team scored once in the second, with goal-master Beckham Edwards getting his for the Bulldogs and Tam Brick Alberta getting its goal from Brayden Mackay. 

The third period came up all Alex Mclean, as the Toronto forward pumped in two goals, getting the game-winner and the insurance goal in the win. Defensively, Aiden Eskit made 22 saves in the loss for Team Brick Alberta.