Osseo/Maple Grove opened the Edina Tournament blitzing Minnetonka 11-0.  The Crimson scored six times in the opening period in their game against the Skippers.  Brock Faber scored twice and had three assists for a five point game.  Kyle Kukkonen scored twice and added two assists to finish the game with four points.  Jacob Hicks scored twice.  Brandon Reller, Cade Wessman, Ethan Elias, Ian Barbour, and Chris Kernan each scored once.  Crimson goalie Jack Wienenke got the shutout.  OMG beat Lakeville South 7-1 in their second pool game.  Kukkonen got the hat trick and assisted on two goals to post a five point game.  Faber, Hicks, and Justin Janicke, and Cal Thomas each scored a goal.  Dale Pfannenstein got the win. Cade Ahrenholz got the lone Lakeville goal.  OMG struggled to win (3-2) in their final pool game against Stillwater.  They took a 3-0 lead into the third period, but game up two power play goals (including a 5-on-3 power play goal) to the Ponies letting Stillwater back in the game.  That forced OMG goalie Wieneke to come up with some big late third period saves to win the game.  Stillwater’s JJ Wiebush figured in both third period Pony scores.  Luke Rooker scored the first goal halfway through the third period.  Rooker camped on the weak side and drove a rebounding puck into the OMG goal.  Wiebush got the assist.  Wiebush scored the second goal with Joe Manning getting the assist.

Both OMG and Stillwater would have advanced if Stillwater had beaten Osseo/Maple Grove.  The Ponies had tied Lakeville South in their opening pool game 4-4.  Against South, four different players scored for Stillwater.  Keegan O’Brien, Sean Doggett, and Triston Tabucol each scored in the first half of the opening period to put Stillwater up 3-0.  But the Ponies could not stop the Cougars’ big center Ahrenholz.  Ahrenholz outside rushes to the Stillwater goal resulted in two goals scored by Ahrenholz and an Ahrenholz assist on a third.  

Wayzata beat Chaska/Chanhassen 5-0, Centennial 4-2, and Lakeville North 5-1 in the Trojans three pool games.  Jake Schneider, Aidan Petropoulos, and Andrew Goetz led the Trojans in their game against the Storm Hawks.  Schneider and Goetz each scored twice.  Goetz added an assist for a three point game.  Pertropoulos assisted on two of the five scores.  Tucker Ness scored unassisted.  Trojan goalie Joshua Koskie stopped all 21 Storm Hawks shots for the shutout.  Against Centennial, Wayzata took a 3-1 lead into the third period behind two goals by Carson Peters and a goal by Hayden Davidson.  The Cougars’ Jordan Newpower scored the single, second period, Centennial goal.  Connor Thompson scored 30 seconds into the third period to cut Wayzata’s lead to 3-2.  The Trojans hung on to win 4-2 with Marshall Boyles scoring a late third period insurance goal.  Wayzata goalie Darby Sanders stopped 36 of 38 Cougar shots for the win.  In their final pool game, Wayzata took a 1-0 lead at the halfway mark of the first period behind a Davidson score and held on to that lead through four successive penalties called on the Trojans in the last half of the opening period.  Wayzata’s Peters and Tristan Sarsland each scored a second period goal to widen the Trojans’ lead to 3-0 going into the final period.  In the first half of the final period, Goetz and Schneider each scored an unassisted goal to build that lead to 5-0.  Trojan goalie Koskie got the win stopping 9 of 10 shots on goal.

After losing their opening pool game to Wayzata, Chaska/Chanhassen came back to edge Lakeville North 3-2.  Centennial also beat North 3-1 to setup a wild card game between the two teams Friday afternoon at Minnesota Made.  That game was scoreless battle through two and a half periods of play.  Both defenses played strong games.  

Edina won their first two pool games by the same score beating Minneapolis 5-1 and Rosemount 5-1.  Five different Hornets (Jackson Borst, Marc Lund, Cy Ramsey, Nathan Stone, and Evan Pahos) scored against the Minneapolis team.  Edina's goalie Mason Wordelman got the win.  The Storm’s Eli Padilla scored the lone Minneapolis goal.  Against Rosemount, Jackson Borst scored twice in the second period to break a 1-1 tie with the Irish and put the Hornets up 3-1.  Ryan Ressemann and Jackson Bisson scored twice for the Hornets in the third period to put the game away 5-1.  Cy Ramsay scored the first Hornet goal and Brett Carlson scored the Rosemount goal to tie the game 1-1 going into the second period.

After winning the first two, Edina still needed a win or a tie against Cloquet to advance.  The Lumberjacks had tied Rosemount 3-3 in their opening pool game and beat Minneapolis 6-3.  A win over Edina would put Cloquet atop the pool with five points.  Cloquet had to rally scoring twice in the third period to tie Rosemount.  Logan Dushkin and Mason Langenbrunner scored the third period goals.  Langenbrunner, a defenseman, dropped low on the power play to bang in the tying goal from the top of the crease.  Rosemount’s duo of Zach Sweitzer and Will Norris scored the first two Irish goals; Sweitzer getting the goals, Norris the assists.  Zach Bade scored unassisted to put Rosemount up 3-1 going into the final period.  Brock House scored the first Lumberjack goal.  Against Minneapolis, Cloquet scored three quick goals in the opening minutes of the first period and added a fourth goal late in the period to take a 4-0 lead into the second period.  House scored twice for the Lumberjacks, Cade Anderson and Sam Baker each scored once.  Minneapolis’ Oliver Jorgenson scored in the second period.  House opened the third period with his “hat trick” goal putting Cloquet up 5-1 with twelve minutes left in the game.  The Storm’s Joe Miller and Nate Heithoff scored the two third period goals.  Miller had two assists and was part of all three Minneapolis scores.  Langenbrunner got the sixth Cloquet goal.

Five minutes into the opening period, Edina pressured the Storm Hawks goalie along the right post and manage to slide the puck past goalie Patrick Fontaine.  The ref called it a goal and the Edina forwards started to plead with the ref that they had scored.  The ref was pointing at the puck.  It was a strange opening to the first semifinal game, but soon forgotten as both teams started to roll.  Cy Ramsay scored and Evan Pahos got the assist. The Hornets led 1-0.  Two minutes later, Chaska tied the game.  Gavin Waltz beat the Hornet defense for a solo rush on goalie Elijah Andrews.  He scored on a shot from the slot that hit the net low just inside the right post.  Max Burkholder got the assist.  The first period ended in a 1-1 tie with Edina outshooting the Storm Hawks 7-3 in the period.

Edina drew two penalties at the start of the second period.  Still it took Chaska/Chanhassen eight minutes to score the tie breaker.  Jimmy Snuggerud scored for the Hawks.  Snuggerud’s initial wraparound attempt was stopped by Andrews, but he hung in and forced the puck across the goal line for the score.  CC led 2-1.  Sully Scholle and Waltz got the assists.  Edina scored the tying goal with four minutes to go in the period.  Jackson Borst scored with Noel Rahn getting the assist.  The second period ended in a 2-2 tie.  The third period was frustrating for the Hornets.  They could get pressure inside the Storm Hawks’ zone, but could not get the puck on the net.  The period ended with Edina pressuring Chaska.  The overtime period was a continuation.  The Hornet forwards were constantly getting shots off, but now the Storm Hawks goalie Fontaine was making the stops.  With three minutes remaining in the overtime, a shot on the Hawks net from low left by Johnny Devoe was barely stopped by a Fontaine left skate.  The puck slid into an open area in the left crease and bounced around a number of players until it ended up DeVoe stick.  DeVoe had moved to the top of the crease and surrounded by Edina teammates put the puck in the net for the winning score.  Edina advanced to the Championship game; Chaska played for third place.

Osseo/Maple Grove’s Kyle Kukkonen scored to put the Crimson up 1-0 in the opening minutes of the first period.  Henry Nelson and Ethan Elias got the assists.  Cade Wessman scored late in the second period to give the Crimson a 2-0 lead.  Grant Zick got the assist.  Wayzata’s Hayden Davidson scored to end the second period and cut OMG’s lead to 2-1.  Carter Theissen and Aidan Petropoulos got the assists.  OMG’s Sam Jacobs scored in the opening minutes of the third period with Nelson getting his second assist.  The Crimson’s Brock Faber scored late in the period to end the scoring 4-1.  OMG goalie Dale Pfannenstein got the win.  Jacob Hicks got the assist on Faber’s score.  Wayzata goalie Joshua Koskie stopped 35 of 39 shots.     

He stopped the rebound in the slot moving right on one knee, turned left to recapture the puck , and fired it past Wordelman to score OMG’s second goal unassisted.  One minute later, OMG’s Calvin Kiefer made a nice pass to Cade Wessman breaking in neutral ice.  Wessman and Grant Zick beat the Edina defense at the Hornet blue line and rushed Wordelman 2-on-0. With no defensive help, the Edina goalie was caught between the two Crimson forwards with Wessman carrying the puck.  The OMG forward used Zick as a foil and beat the Edina goalie with a hard shot right.  Kiefer got the assist.  In three minutes of play, the OMG Association’s peewee AA team had set Edina on the heels of their blades.  They outshot the Hornets 8-4 in the period and controlled the play in the last half of the opening period.  OMG led 3-1.

Both teams were playing their fifth game in four days.  Both teams struggled at times, but the Crimson forwards were just quicker Sunday to the puck winning most of the races and having success knocking the puck off the Hornets sticks on Edina rushing attempts.  In a pivotal second period, the OMG edge showed and it allowed the Crimson to put the game away.  After a penalty free opening period, two minutes into the second period Edina drew a tripping penalty.  OMG scored the power play goal to take a 4-1 lead a minute later.  The Crimson moved the puck to the left point area to Nelson.  Nelson’s shot beat Wordelman through his pads.  Elias got his second assist of the game.  The two teams battled over the next six minutes before Edina scored.  Evan Pahos cut across the top of the crease beating OMG’s goalie Wieneke for the score.  Johnny DeVoe got the assist.  With just under thirty seconds to play in the second period, an OMG defender started a nice scoring play from behind the OMG goal passing along the left boards to another OMG player who in turn hit Brandon Reller along the right boards.  Reller broke into the Hornet zone and rushed the Edina goal scoring.  OMG led 5-2 going into the final period and outshot Edina 13-4 in the period.

Any thoughts of a Hornet comeback were blown away.  In the opening minutes of the third period, the Hornets drew three successive penalties two 5-on-3 OMG power plays.  OMG relaxed on the penalty gifts content to bottle up the Hornets in the Edina zone.  The Hornets did not get back to 5-on-5 until eight minutes were left on the clock.  In the next two minutes of play, Edina continued to struggle generating only one good scoring chance.  The game ended with OMG winning 5-2.  Goalie Jack Wieneke got the win, Kyle Kukkonen led the tourney in points (13) and in goals scored (8).