In the third, the Eagles defended home ice and scored three goals to take the lead 6-5. Within a 25 minute span, the Huskies went from staring at Woodbury in the final to the third place game. Enter Gavyn Thoreson to the rescue. The Andover forward took over the game late. With under two minutes to go, Thoreson took the puck end-to-end on one of his many rushes. He made a great move on the hash mark and got the puck to the net. Once there, the puck bounced, dribbled and ping-ponged in the crease until finally it went in. Thoreson was given credit for the goal and the game was tied with 1:22 to go.

With just a few ticks on the clock, Eden Prairie was called for a mysterious Interference call which meant the Huskies would play the overtime on the power play. The penalty call even had the Andover fans musing under their breath, "let the kids play."

In the overtime, Andover controlled the play with standouts Thoreson and Cooper Conway (a common theme all weekend). Thoreson got a puck down low with a lot of time and space skating four on three and lit the lamp to give the Huskies the win. The shot was amazing...he beat the goalie top shelf on the short-side to lift them to the win.

In the championship game, Andover would take on No. 2 in Squirt A Woodbury on Sunday afternoon. The Predators had a similar path in winning three pool play games over Minneapolis, Shakopee and Buffalo. Missing star forward Atilla Lippai for the weekend, the Preds were still good enough to beat Minnetonka 6-3 in the semifinals. 

Just like the rest of their games, the Huskies got of to a fast start - Thomas Fitzgerald scored on a pretty snipe that beat Woodbury goalie Kamdon Carlson. and a minute later, Husky spark plug Caden Martin stuffed home a wrap around to give Andover a 2-0 lead. Without Lippai, the Predators didn't get a lot of great chances. 

In the second, Cooper Conway found Thoreson and he fed him with a pretty 60 foot pass and the third year Squirt, Thoreson, hammered it home to give the Huskies a lead they would never let go. The Huskies kept their foot on the gas and won going away 5-0 to take home the coveted Eden Prairie eagle trophy.

Stillwater Black cruised through pool play winning their pool with an impressive 3-0 record. After qualifying for the semi-finals, the Ponies took care of business in the semi-finals beating Lakeville South 9-0. In the finals, they would face the number one team in the state, the Chaska Chan (Black) StormHawks. 

The Ponies got off to a fast start scoring thirty seconds into the game when Colin Vilme scored one of his two goals. Leading 3-2 after the first, Vilme would get his second of the game giving the Ponies a 4-2 lead heading into the final period.

Down by a pair of goals, Colin Lawler scored for the StormHawks top-shelf to cut the lead to 4-3 with just over five minutes to play. Stillwater would answer 90 seconds later when Vilme fed a streaking Blaine Batchelor who tapped it in to seal the win for the Ponies. Zachary Goulet would add an insurance goal for the Ponies on a pretty shot that beat CC goalie Kai Girard on his glove side. Vilme and Goulet both finished the game with two goals and an assist.

The win will likely vault the Ponies into the YHH Staff Rankings Top 10 this Tuesday afternoon.