WILLMAR — The Willmar WarHawks easily beat the Minnesota Loons 9-3 Saturday in an NA3HL game at the Willmar Civic Center.
Patrick Wyers and Elbridge DeKraai each had two goals to lead the WarHawks, who improved to 21-14-1 with the victory over the Loons, who are 5-32.
Wyers is a forward from Minnetonka. He now has 20 goals and 20 assists in 26 games for Willmar.
DeKraai is an 18-year-old forward from Willmar who has 13 goals and 14 assists in 28 games for the WarHawks.
Willmar also got goals from Will Anderson, Tyler Misialek, Mikhail Kukareka, Anthony Foster, Shawn Ohlenchlager van Coller.
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The WarHawks outshot the Loons, who play their home games in Breezy Point, 78-21.
Willmar and Minnesota play again at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Breezy Point Hockey Center.
Willmar 9, MN Loons 2
MN Loons (5-32-0) 1 0 1 — 2
Willmar (21-14-1) 4 2 3 — 9
FIRST PERIOD – (1) W: Elbridge DeKraai 12 (Mikhail Kukareka 2, Enzo Tarducci 10), 2:34 … (2) W: Shawn Ohlenschlager van Coller 3 (Will Anderson 1, Samuel Miller 16), 7:40 … (3) W: Anthony Foster 11 (Tate Hammitt 23, Brady O’Brien 24), 12:48 PP … (4) W: Patrick Wyers 19 (Mason Hendrickson 1, Collin Kerchoff 25), 15:47 … (5) MN: Blake Keller 15 (Jackson Stiles 2, Mathieu Goldenberg 6), 17:17. PENALTIES: (1) MN: Goldenberg (tripping-minor, 2 min), 11:32.
SECOND PERIOD – (6) W: DeKraai 13 (Braden Fairbanks 8, Ethan Mock 6), 16:27 … (7) W: Anderson 2 (Tyler Misialek 7, O’Brien 25), 19:03. PENALTIES: (2) MN: Tye Kusilek (roughing-minor, 2 min), 16:22 … (3) MN: Kusilek (cross checking-minor, 2 min), 16:22 … (4) MN: Robert Provost (roughing-double minor, 4 min), 16:22 … (5) W: Foster (roughing-double minor, 4 min), 16:22 … (6) W: Michael Sweetland (interference-minor, 2 min), 16:22 … (7) W: Sweetland (fighting-major, 5 min), 16:22 … (8) W: Sweetland (fighting-ejection, 20 min), 16:22.
THIRD PERIOD – (8) W: Wyers 20 (Miller 17, Ethan Hawes 2), 7:35 PP … (9) W: Kukareka 3 (Foster 24, Marcus Mack 14), 10:50 PP … (10) MN: Xavier Brooks 7 (Cooper Brackett 4, Philippe Cebrian Boldyrev 11), 13:14 … (11) W: Misialek 12 (Teddy Kluesner 7), 19:33. PENALTIES: (9) W: Tarducci (slashing-minor, 2 min), 1:20 … (10) W: Anderson (cross checking-minor, 2 min), 4:46 … (11) MN: Josef Slepica (hooking-minor, 2 min), 5:48 … (12) MN: Keller (cross checking-minor, 2 min), 7:24 … (13) W: Misialek (roughing-minor, 2 min), 7:24 … (14) MN: Trent Daly (holding-minor, 2 min), 8:58.
GOALIE SAVES/SHOTS – MN Loons: Matthew Ryynanen 69/78 … Willmar: Will Pinney 19/21.
