The St. Michael-Albertville Knights relied on the scoring touch of Mike Ryan, who netted two goals, to beat the Robbinsdale Cooper Hawks, 6-1.

Ryan's tallies came at 5:06 into the second period to make the score 2-1 St. Michael-Albertville and 4:18 into the third to make the score 5-1 St. Michael-Albertville.

St. Michael-Albertville's penalty kill excelled, as the Knights gave up one goal despite allowing seven power plays.

St. Michael-Albertville's offense rang up 31 shots on Robbinsdale Cooper's net. The Knights were forced to rely heavily on their penalty kill unit throughout the game, as they racked up 24 penalty minutes.

St. Michael-Albertville additionally got points from Brett Marshall, who also grabbed one goal and one assist and Matt Borgen, who also tallied one goal and one assist. Cade Gamrath also scored for St. Michael-Albertville. More assists for St. Michael-Albertville came via Nate Fischbach, who had two and Daniel Lund, Aaron Michaelson, Tony Bork, Cory Kackman, and Connor Spetz, who each chipped in one.

The Hawks stifled St. Michael-Albertville's power play, and did not give up a single goal while down a man.

Robbinsdale Cooper was led by Alex Stager, who scored the team's only goal. Stager scored on the power play 4:27 into the first period to make the score 1-0 Robbinsdale Cooper. The Hawks had gotten the advantage when the Knights' Marshall was sent off for interference. Trey Rooney picked up the assist.

St. Michael-Albertville's Borgen stopped 16 shots out of the 17 that he faced. The Knights registered zero goals on three power play opportunities. Keegan Husom rejected 25 shots on goal for Robbinsdale Cooper. The Hawks incurred six minutes in penalty time with three minors.