Traverse City Hounds relied on the scoring touch of Adam Jonak, who netted two goals, to beat Detroit Fighting Irish, 4-0.

Jonak's tallies came short handed at 5:37 into the first period to make the score 1-0 Traverse City Hounds and 11:01 into the second to make the score 2-0 Traverse City Hounds.

David Krejcik frustrated Detroit Fighting Irish's offense all game, and stopped 33 shots en route to a shutout. The solid play of Krejcik will be reflected in his goals against average, which pre-game was 1.37.

Traverse City Hounds racked up the penalties in the contest, and ended with eight minors and four majors for 46 minutes in penalty time. The total exceeded the 28.0 minutes per game Traverse City Hounds had been spending in the box. Traverse City Hounds' penalty kill was spotless, allowing no goals on seven Detroit Fighting Irish power plays.

Traverse City Hounds also got points from Kenneth Simmons Jr, who also racked up one goal and one assist to lead the team in points. Traverse City Hounds also got a goal from Josh Smith as well. More assists for Traverse City Hounds came via Patrick Rogowski, who had two and Jordan Ruterbusch, Kevin Hansen, Jacob Gillis, Alex Devries, and Cam Fisher, who each chipped in one.

Detroit Fighting Irish forced its penalty killing units to work especially hard during the game, picking up five minors and four majors for 30 minutes in penalty time. Detroit Fighting Irish surpassed its season average of 16.0 penalty minutes per game. Detroit Fighting Irish excelled on the penalty kill, not giving up a single goal in six chances. Detroit Fighting Irish was held below its usual level of production. Detroit Fighting Irish puts an average of 3.0 pucks into the net per game. Traverse City Hounds was unable to stop Detroit Fighting Irish from sending pucks towards the net, and Detroit Fighting Irish eventually piled up 33 shots on goal.

Detroit Fighting Irish's Christopher Lewis stopped 26 shots out of the 30 that he faced.