St. Paul Academy (Drake) – Wednesday, December 2, 2009. In a physical game with two broken sticks and a few roughing penalties, the Northern Horde skated to a 4-4 tie with the Ice Sages. Jeff Nelson opened the scoring at 15:47 of the first period with a breakaway goal set up a strong pass from Chris Haack. The Ice Sages quickly tied it at one all. After he banged one off the post two minutes later, Jon Zimmerman knocked in a Dan Kline pass from behind the net to put the Horde out in front at 9:45 of the first period. The only goal in the second came from Jeff Nelson unassisted. Early in the third¸ Jeff Nelson scored his first hat trick for the Horde, with Dan Kline getting his second assist of the night. However, the Horde were not able to hold off the Sages for the rest of the period and gave up two goals. The overtime was uneventful and the Horde walked away with one point.
