Photos: Kerri-Ann Kanceruk – Kanceruk Photography
Gary Moskalyk Recaps the first two games of the second round.
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| Max Roby scored two of Dryden’s five power play goals as the Ice Dogs defeated Red Lake 6-3 to take game one of the semi-final series. Roby added two assists and Carson Devine had a goal and two helpers to lead the pack. It was Dryden’s first game in 20 days. Rylan Oatman caught Red Lake on a bad line change, going high glove side on Nick Peters for a 1-0 Dryden lead. Quinn Szpak went high blocker side on Kellan Mooney at 6:06 of the first to tie it, scoring his fourth on a Miners’ power play. Dryden went ahead 2-1 12 seconds into a power play with Payton Hu doing the damage. Dryden scored the first two of four second period goals, both on the power play. Devine struck at 22 seconds on a one-timer. Roby got his first at 6:25 on an over-the-shoulder snipe just under the bar for a 4-1 Ice Dog lead. Nathan Dann responded for Red Lake, notching his sixth from the slot on a Red Lake 5-on-3. Matthew MacPherson got his second of the playoffs at 14:16 to narrow the Dryden lead to one. The Miners’ captain walked in from the blue-line and wired in a wrist shot glove side. Dryden added two power play goals in the third to seal the deal. Paulsen scored on Peters’ doorstep at 1:40 as did Roby at 8:10. Final shots favoured Dryden 33-18. Hu had two assists for three points and Paulsen, selected league MVP, added a helper for Dryden. MacPherson had a two point night and Kayne Pawlick had two helpers for Red Lake. Dryden was 5-6 on the power play while Red Lake was 2-4 with the man advantage. Attendance was 867.           |
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| The Dryden Ice Dogs broke open a 3-3 game with seven third period goals to defeat Red Lake 10-4, taking a 2-0 series lead. The Rylan Oatman, Evan Mayer, Jordan Wales line tallied 10 combined points, and Eli Antoine counted a pair of unassisted goals to buoy the attack. Nathan Dann replied with a pair for the Miners, giving him eight goals in the post season. It was anyone’s game through two periods. Carson Devine got the Ice Dogs off to a fast start, scoring on the power play at 1:57 of the first. Kellan Mooney gloved a shot but couldn’t hold on and Dann was right there to deposit the rebound to tie the game. Matthew MacPherson scored from a sharp angle to give Red Lake a 2-1 lead. McLaren Paulsen won a face-off deep in the Miners’ zone after a late icing call and Max Roby wristed in a bullet with two seconds left in the period to tie the game at 2-2. Sullivan Menard got his first tally of the play-offs a one-timer high glove side to give the Miners a 3-2 lead at 7:51. Oatman replied for Dryden 1:36 later on a centering pass from Mayer to knot the score. Bryson Carlyle rang one off the post with four minutes left and the Miners also survived a 5-on-3 in the latter stages of second. Dryden forged an 8-3 lead by the 8:18 mark of the third Karson Kerbes beat Nick Peters with a wrist shot at 1:09. Jordan Wales backhanded in a third shot after Peters made a pair of saves at 1:31. Antoine scored unassisted at 3:07 on a Red Lake giveaway. Emmanuel Nkombou scored shorthanded and unassisted on a wrap around at 5:44. Peters was hurt on the Nkombou goal after a Red Lake defender slid into him on the initial save. Kerbes, Wales, Antoine and Nkombou all scored their first goals and Ryan Heuser, Wales and McKale Paul all picked up their first playoff helpers during the barrage. Koen Webber came in relief for Red Lake and was victimized by a wide open Oatman after a centering feed from Mayer at 8:18 making it 8-3. Dann got his eighth at 10:37 to shave a goal off the lead. Even down 8-4 it looked as though the Miners could yet muster a comeback. Antoine re-established the five-goal spread with an unassisted shorty at 10:57, and Wales capitalized after a persistent Dryden forecheck paid off at 13:34 to render the 10-4 verdict. Peters stopped 35 of 42, and Webber made five saves on eight shots in the Red Lake net. Mooney was busy, saving 36 of 40 for his second consecutive win. Wales finished with two goals and two assists. Oatman had two goals and a helper, Mayer had three assists, and Roby added a helper for Dryden. Dann was the lone two-point man for Red Lake. The Miners took 22 of 42 penalty minutes. The Ice Dogs were 1-7 on the power play, adding two shorthanded goals while killing off all six Red Lake power plays. Games three and four are in Red Lake Tuesday and Wednesday night. Attendance was 736.             |
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