Layne Young leads North Stars to 2-1 victory in game one
The Battleford North Stars hadn’t played a game in 13 days when the puck dropped in game one of their playoff series against the Kindersley Klippers, but you wouldn’t have known it the way they came flying out of the gate.
Despite a 22-5 shot advantage after the first period, the North Stars were unable to solve the stellar goaltending of Nathan Hargrave, who kept his team in the game.
It didn’t take long into the second period for the North Stars to get on the board. After starting the period on a short five-on-three power play, the North Stars found themselves down two men shortly after.
Levi Kleiboer and Layne Young were called for penalties at the same whistle, sending the North Stars to a four-on-three penalty kill. 1:06 later it became a five-on-three advantage for the Klippers. While they moved the puck well, they weren’t able to solve Tyler Fuhr.