2024 Minnesota state boys hockey tournament: Grand Rapids thriller wraps up Day 2
Day 2 of the 2024 Minnesota state boys hockey tournament at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. is complete after a day of incredible action in the Class AA quarterfinals.
The night ended when Grand Rapids scored the winning goal with 1.6 seconds to play in a thriller against White Bear Lake. Also moving on to Friday's semifinals are Edina, Chanhassen and Cretin-Derham Hall, which needed two overtimes to defeat Centennial.
Unreal, Grand Rapids scores with less than a second to go after White Bear Lake had tied it just 2 minutes before pic.twitter.com/aPKXahB9dv
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For those wanting to watch the action live, the games can be streamed here and are available over the air on KSTC Ch. 45 or on the KSTP 5 apps, which are available on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Google TV or on your smart phone.
Read the Day 1 recaps from Class A here and check out the game-by-game summaries from Thursday's AA action below.
No. 5 Grand Rapids 2 vs. No. 4 White Bear Lake 1
First period
- Grand Rapids strikes on William Shermoen's goal at 4:04 of the first period. Thunderhawks controlling the pace so far. Grand Rapids 1, White Bear Lake 0
Second period
- Grand Rapids maintains the 1-0 lead after two periods.
Third period
- White Bear Lake going on the power play with 5:33 to play and trailing 1-0.
- Bears come up empty on the power play and then almost immediately commit a penalty and Grand Rapids will be on the power play with 3:09 to play and still leading 1-0.
- It wasn't just a minor penalty on White Bear Lake, it was a five-minute boarding major. Grand Rapids will have the man advantage rest of the way.
- 14 seconds into the major and Grand Rapids gets called for a holding penalty and we'll lay 4-on-4 for two minutes with only 2:55 left in the game. Still 1-0.
- Bears tie it with 1:34 to go. The 4-on-4 goal goes to Jack Stanius. Grand Rapids 1, White Bear Lake 1
- Stunning finish! Grand Rapids scores with 1.6 seconds left. Goal goes to Nathan Garski, Grand Rapids 2, White Bear Lake 1
No. 1 Edina 6, Elk River/Zimmerman 2
BHS
— YHH (@YouthHockeyHub) March 8, 2024
Class AA State
Edina > Elk River/ Zimmerman (1-0)
Edina Buzzin’ low and it pays off!
Freddie Schneider opens scoring for the Hornets in the first.
13:41, 1P pic.twitter.com/8zwpBUNQct
First period
- Top-seeded Hornets jumped on top 1-0 on a goal by Freddie Schneider just 3:20 into the game. Edina 1, Elk River/Zimmerman 0
Second period
- Casey Vandertop scores 5:40 into the period. Edina 2, Elk River/Zimmerman 0
- 39 seconds later Sam Peckham made it 3-0.
- 2 minutes, 9 seconds after that Vandertop scored again. 4-0
- 1 minute, 55 seconds later Mason West scored. 5-0
- A little over 3 minutes after that Vandertop completed the natural hat trick. Edina 6, Elk River/Zimmerman 0
- Daniel Babcock gets the Elks on the board. Edina 6, Elk River/Zimmerman 1
Third period
- Kole Mears nets one for the Elks at 14:52 of the third. Edina 6, Elk River/Zimmerman 2
- Edina advances to Friday's semifinals and will face the winner of Grand Rapids and White Bear Lake.
Max Anderson wins it in double OT for Cretin-Derham Hall pic.twitter.com/XWgzHkySKI
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Cretin-Derham Hall 4 vs. No. 3 Centennial 3 (2OT)
First period
- Cougars strike 56 seconds after the opening puck drop as Hunter Searles scores. Centennial 1, CDH 0
- Nick Carls scores two power play goals just 79 seconds apart. Centennial 3, CDH 0
- Raiders answer with 3:16 remaining on a goal by Aidan Siegfried. Centennial 3, CDH 1
Second period
- It took until there was 56 seconds left in the second period before another goal was scored, and it came off the stick of Cretin-Derham Hall's Chuck Owens. Centennial 3, CDH 2
Third period/overtime/double overtime
- Raiders come all the back from down three goals to tie it at 1:56 of the third period on a power play goal by Max Anderson. Centennial 3, CDH 3
- We're going to overtime for the first time in The Tourney.
- The first overtime went five minutes and that didn't settle anything. They'll resurface the ice and come back out for a second overtime.
- It ended with 4:16 to play in the second overtime as Max Anderson won it for the Raiders.
No. 2 Chanhassen 7, Rochester Century/John Marshall 0 (Final)
First period
- Chanhassen appeared to strike first when Caden Lee put a puck into the net on a juicy rebound, but a video review revealed that the Storm were offsides so the goal was wiped out.
- Rochester didn't have a shot on goal until there was under three minutes left in the period.
- With 21 seconds left in the period Chanhassen got on the board when Minnesota State-Mankato recruit Jack Christ held a puck in the offense zone and fired an unassisted shot into the net. Chanhassen 1, Rochester 0
Second period
- Storm go up 2-0 on a goal by Tyler Smith with 8:30 left in the period. Chanhassen 2, Rochester 0
- Caden Lee makes up for the goal that was wiped out by an offsides call by speeding up the center of the rink and firing a shot in for his 25th goal of the season. Chanhassen 3, Rochester 0
- Lee scores again on a power play. It's getting out of hand quickly. Chanhassen 4, Rochester 0
Third period
- Storm add three more en route to a 7-0 victory. They out-shot Rochester 42-12. Chanhassen 7, Rochester 0
- Chanhassen will play in the semifinals Friday at 6 p.m.
