The Battlefords AAA Stars hope their Sunday afternoon beat down of the Saskatoon Contacts starts another long winning streak for them.
A seven-game streak was snapped Thursday night at home in a 2-1 loss to Prince Albert, but the Star romped 11-4 over the Contacts to move to 9-2 on the season and a share of first place in the Saskatchewan AAA Hockey League.
The Stars dominated so completely that it is hard to believe it was actually the Contacts that scored first at 6:16 of the first as Garrett Pilon notched the opening marker,
But the Stars responded 43 seconds later as Chad Grambo scored from Jared Hillis.
Then at the 10:54 mark, the Stars took the lead as Kyle Salaway beat Contacts netminder Isaac LaBelle. Kaelan Holt and Tyler Baier notched assists.
Colton Adam tied it for Saskatoon on the power play two minutes later, but Layne Young scored a power play marker of his own with 5:44 left in the period to give the Stars a 3-2 lead after one.
As it turned out, that would be the first of five unanswered goals for the Stars.
Goals in the second by Kaleb Dahlgren, Kaelan Holt, Braydon Buziak and then Dahlgren again on the power play put the Stars up 7-2 and they had the game in hand the rest of the way.
After a goal from Kole Lind cut the margin to four, Buziak scored again with 1:16 left in the period to make it 8-3. After Pilon scored his second of the game for the Contacts early in the third, markers by Owen Lamb and then two more by Young for the hat trick rounded out the scoring for the Stars.
Dahlgren was named star of the game for the Stars and Pilon for the Contacts.
Brett Pongracz stopped 26 of 30 in goal for the win. Contacts goalie Isaac LaBelle faced an onslaught on the day, facing 55 shots and stopping 44 of them.
The Stars now have a few days off until their next action Nov. 6 against Beardy's at the Civic Centre.
