Benilde-St. Margaret's Boys' Hockey

Three power-play goals in the second period proved to be enough offense for Benilde-St. Margaret's as the Red Knights posted a 3-2 win over Osseo.

The teams skated through a scoreless first period, with each totalling eight shots on goal, before BSM got rolling in the second period.

Following back-to-back penalties on the Orioles, the Red Knights took advantage of the 5-on-3 power play as Brett Patterson's pass found Christian Horn in the right faceoff circle.

Horn was slow to pull the puck across his body and onto his forehand but, once he got into shooting position, he sniped the puck over the glove of Osseo goalie Ben Cohn at five minutes, 31 seconds of the middle stanza.

The Red Knights still had a 5-on-4 power play to work with and, 90 seconds later, Will Nelson passed the puck from the bottom of the left circle to Bryan Glynn, who tipped the puck into the net while camped on the right side of the goal crease.

BSM got its third power-play chance of the second period, and fourth of the game, with 3:04 remaining in the frame and it took just 14 seconds for Glynn to work the puck behind the net to Nelson, who got the puck to Horn at the top of the crease for a three-goal lead.

"Bryan Glynn just might be our most valuable forward," Red Knight head coach Ken Pauly said of his senior co-captain, who had a goal and two assists in the game. "This is the first time this year that I can say the power play won the game for us – and that’s huge."

However, the game was far from over.

Jacob Meyers stopped the first 20 shots he faced in the game but Tim Bonner's power play with 10:05 to play in the game gave the hosts some life.

Just 26 seconds later, Tyler Ladd took a pass from Kevin Bray, got behind the Red Knight defense and cut the lead to one goal with the first marker of his career.

From that point, BSM allowed just two more shots on goal and held on for its 15th win of the season.

"It would have been nice to pump in a few more goals in the third and put a stamp on the victory," Pauly said. "We’ll get more mileage out of a hard fought one-goal win. I liked the way we played after Osseo’s second goal."

Meyers rebounded from allowing seven goals in Thursday's 7-3 loss to Shattuck-St. Mary's and Pauly was pleased with the performance of his second-year junior netminder.

"I really liked the way the Jacob Meyers played tonight," he said. "He really appeared to be dialed in and on top of the puck. We gave up some quality chances in the first period and Jacob snuffed those out. We need that out of him.

"We have to understand that there is usually no such thing as an easy win this time of year. Osseo is tough in the building."

The Red Knights play three games in five days this week. The second of the three contest sees BSM returning home for a North Suburban Conference meeting with St. Louis Park, with the opening faceoff slated for 7 p.m.