The St. Boniface Riels made the short trek over to East End for a Friday night MMJHL battle with the Railer Express. The match up was between the last two undefeated teams in the MMJHL.
The game started slow with both teams unable to register a shot on goal in the first five minutes. Riels opened up the scoring, but the Railer Express less than a minute later, evened it up with Evan Chudley getting his 3rd of the season. The first period would end in a 2-2 deadlock as Mattie Boonstra would close out the scoring in the first, notching his league leading 6th goal of the season.
That would be it for any offense from the Riels. The Express came out in the second period and rallied for five straight tallies. Boonstra opened up the scoring with his 2nd of the night and 7th of the season followed by Conner Grunston with his 4th of the season, Chudley also tapped in his 4th of the season and Riley Johnson rounded out the scoring with two, for his 2nd and 3rd of the season.
The third period saw little life from the Riels, but there was a flurry of chances that goaltender Dylan Arnold had to be sharp and make some quality saves. The third also saw both Boonstra and Chudley finish off their hat tricks. Boonstra notched his league leading 8th and Chudley with his 5th of the season.
Arnold finished the game with facing 41 shots and making 39 saves, to improve his record to 3-0.
Express next two regular scheduled games are on the road with the next home game - Sunday, November 1st at 2 pm when the Raiders visit East End.