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Edina's top line keys win over BSM

01/13/2009, 10:30pm CST
By Staff

Cron, Patterson tally for Red Knights

Edina's big three of Anders Lee, Marshall Everson and Connor Gaarder combined for four goals and 10 points as the Hornets handed Benilde-St. Margaret's a 6-2 loss.

Everson and Lee combined to put the Hornets on top, 2-0, with goals nine minutes, 32 seconds and 12:48 into the contest.

The Red Knights appeared to take some measure of control of the game after falling behind but, with 34 seconds remaining in the period, John Eppel dumped the puck into the BSM zone, where it deflected off a skate and into the net to give Edina a three-goal lead heading into the first intermission.

“We also could of have used a bounce tonight but we just couldn’t get one," Red Knight head coach Ken Paul said. "That fluke deflection at the end of the first period was very deflating for our team."

Edina scored twice in the opening five minutes of the second period, resulting in a Red Knight, and it wasn't until the 10:40 mark of the period when BSM finally got on the scoreboard.

John Duda won a faceoff in right circle of the Hornets' zone. As he battled for possession of the puck, he was knocked to the ice but still managed to pass the puck into the slot, where Pat Cron chipped in his eighth goal of the season.

Just 22 seconds into the third period, the Red Knights cut the lead to 5-2 when Sam Anderson carried the puck along the left-wing boards and behind the Edina goal, before giving the puck to Brett Patterson, who scored his team-leading 10th goal of the season from the right edge of the goal crease.

A power-play chance just 22 seconds later resulted in four shots on goal by the Red Knights but John Ankeny stopped each one and the missed opportunities seemed to turn the momentum as Edina quickly barraged BSM goalie Jacob Meyers with five shots, the last resulting in the game's final goal by Lee at the 5:10 mark.

“We have to find a way to get power play goals," Pauly said. "We had a golden chance to get back into the game at the start of the third and just couldn’t close the deal.

"We played with little passion in the third and Edina put the game away at that point."

The good news in the final period for the Red Knights was its goaltending. Meyers stopped 13 of 14 shots in 13 minutes before giving way to Rob Ankeny, who faced his younger brother, John, in the Edina goal, for the first time.

Rob stopped all four shots he faced in the game's final 3:46, in his first relief appearance of the season, while John raised his record to 12-1-0 on the season by turning aside 27 of the 29 shots he faced.

"Edina is on the very short list of the best teams in the state for a reason," Pauly added. "You cannot make coverage mistakes against high-end forwards. We did and it cost us early.

"The good news is that, after the time out, we pretty much stopped the bleeding and got  a couple of goals. I liked the way that we finished.

"We just need to regroup, take a day off for finals and come back with a better effort against Duluth Marshall."

The Red Knights head north Saturday, to take on the Class A seventh-ranked Hilltoppers at 3:30 p.m. at Mars Lakeview Arena.

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