Two first-period goals by Brady Nadler got the Wolfpack off to a fast start Saturday as Park bounced back from a tough loss Thursday with a 6-4 win over Mounds View.
Nalder scored at the 6:35 …
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Two first-period goals by Brady Nadler got the Wolfpack off to a fast start Saturday as Park bounced back from a tough loss Thursday with a 6-4 win over Mounds View.
Nalder scored at the 6:35 and 13;39 marks in the first period to give the Wolfpack a 2-0 lead.
Mounds View tied the game at 2-all early in the second, but Park regained it on an even strength goal by Nick Bailey.
The Mustangs again rallied and tied the game at 3-all early in the third. That’s when the Wolfpack put them away as Tommy Lucas, Max Kaplan and Caden Schwartz scored consecutive goals to make it a 6-3 Park advantage.
Park moved back inti third place in the Suburban East Conference with an 8-4 record. Park improved to 11-7 on the season.
Mounds View dropped to 2-7-2 in the conference and 4-11-2 on the season.
Park was 2-for-2 on power plays Saturday.
Aidan Miller got the net win for the Wolfpack, stopping 18 of 22 shots for an .818 percentage.
Cole Talledge had three assists to lead Park. Jake Young had two assists while Jackson Rudh, Kaplan and Luke Dahlstrom had one each.
Park hosts Apple Valley/Burnsville (3-16-1) in a non-conference game Thursday, Feb. 1, at Cottage Grove Arena, then plays at Roseville (1-9-1, 6-11-1) Saturday, Feb. 3.
Stillwater 9, Park 1
Every season there’s at least one game that’s better to just forget.
Park’s came Thursday night at Cottage Grove as a visiting Stillwater team blitzed the homestanding Wolfpack in a 9-1 victory.
The league-leading Ponies (10-1, 10-6-1) could seemingly do nothing wrong, while nothing the Wolfpack tried worked.
Stillwater was in control from start to finish. Stillwater led 3-1 at the start of the second period and things rapidly went from bad to worse for the Wolfpack. Stillwater added four more goals in the second period for a commanding 7-1 edge and this one was over.
Stillwater came in with a deceptively modest 8-6-1 record and had started the season 0-4. But in those six losses were defeats to No. 1 Minnetonka, No. 2 Wayzata, No. 5 Maple Grove, No. 7 Benilde St. Margaret and an early 5-3 loss to conference co-leader White Bear Lake.
Brady Nadler’s first-period goal was Park’s only score on the night.
It was by far Park’s worst loss of the season and a far cry from the team’s recent 3-2 win over Cretin-Derham Hall, the 3-2 loss to White Bear Lake and even the 4-1 loss at Stillwater earlier in the season.
The loss also snapped Park’s four-game winning streak.
“We have to remember this is one day,” said head coach Jeff Corkish. “We played a really good team who is skilled and they’re well organized, they played as a team and everything went well for them because they earned that. We just got beat by a better team today. That’s just the way it is.
“One game doesn’t define who we are,” Corkish added. “This is a team that just beat us 9-1 that we had real close 2-2, barely lost at the end we played last time we had White Bear, we beat Cretin, we have to remind these guys that that game doesn’t define us. The games beforehand, all the wins we’ve had since Christmas, or record, all the things we’ve done to other teams – those things show us that we belong and this is just an anomaly.”
