Edina > Osseo Maple Grove (2-1)...The Hornets got on the board first when Edina forward Ben Dexheimer converted a OMG blue line turnover into a short handed goal, beat Aaron Haider with a post-in goal. Later in the first, Edina scored a second goal by Emmet Wurst off of a tip in shot. The goal was disallowed for high sticking.

While on the power play, down 1-0, OMG D-Man Connor Kelley fired a hard wrist shot that Edina Goalie Thomas Webert would stop with his blocker. As he saved it, the puck popped into the air and fell behind him dancing ever so close to the goal line without going in. With Edina picking up the pressure in the second, Wurst would get revenge on the rules when he got a loose puck that evaded Haider and he buried it to give the Hornets a 2-0 lead. 

The game would volley back and forth after the Wurst goal, both teams looking for the all important "next goal." Early in the third with OMG on the power play, two of the fiercest players on the ice Jake Boltmann from Edina and Mannon McMahon from OMG raced for a loose puck in the Edina near corner. McMahon won the race and was checked by Boltmann and the refs hand would raise. He would have some choices on the call. Would it be checking from behind, boarding, or simply a body check. All three had potential ramifications..two minutes, five minutes or some variety of 10 plus minutes for Boltmann, arguable the Hornets best defenseman. After much discussion, the refs went with the lightest penalty call giving OMG a 5-3 for 1:41 and most important, access to Boltmann for the remaining minutes of the game and the next. The Hornets fought off the the two man advantage...Webert came up big on two point blank shots by the Crimson.

With under four minutes remaining in the game, OMG Coach Curtis Janicke called a timeout. Coming out of the TO, his son Justin knocked in a pretty pass from liney Tyler Oakland to cut the lead to 2-1. The Crimson fought and had a couple chances to tie, but Webert and the Edina Defense held down the fort to preserve the 2-1 win.

Centennial > Edina (6-2)...In a battle of two teams that both have been ranked number 1 in the state for long periods was great battle. Both teams came out with amazing speed and energy. Goalies Travis Allen (Centennial) and Josh Solomon (Edina) showed amazing skill making big saves early on. Centennial would get on the board late in the first when sniper Lucas McGregor got a nice back door feed from Hayden Brickner and he beat Solomon to give the Cougars a 1-0 lead. 

The second period was all Centennial. Out hustling Edina, they would score four goals - two on pretty snipes and two on hard work. Joey Linders had the first snipe past Solomon and McGregor would show off his rifle, too, a few minutes later to give the Cougars a 3-0 lead. Then it was the Hayden Brickner show...he would score two more goals, both in close, using his patented strength and grit to help his team to a commanding 5-0 lead. Brickner would finish the game with three goals and an assist.

In the third, Edina would make it interesting scoring early in the third, but Centennial was too strong on the defensive side of the ice to mount a massive comeback. 

Elk River > Jefferson (4-2)...The Elks got up early when Lukas Brockman scored on a feed from Joey Foss. The Jags would fight back when scored on a snipe by Alex Miller on the power play. Both teams would battle, but not score until the third period. First, Ethan Schultz scored from in front of the net early in the period...his first goal of the season sending off a double celebration, one because it was his first of the season and second because it gave the Elks a late lead. The party ended quickly for Schultz and the Elks. Eleven seconds later, Patrick Marty fired a shot toward Kyle Esperum that hit traffic and went in to tie. 

Both teams had some chances to go ahead in the third, but they could not convert. With four minutes to go, the officials called Jags forward Justin Zielinski for interference. The Elks capitalized on the penalty scoring on a wrist shot by Kyle Jussila past Jefferson Goalie Evan Redepenning to give the Elks a 3-2 lead. Connor Bizal would add a late insurance goal for Elk River as they went on to a 4-2 win and a berth in the Moose Goheen Championship game against District 10 Rival Centennial.