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East Ridge vs Duluth Denfeld

January 3, 2026 • Essentia Duluth Heritage Center

Team	1	2	3	T
East Ridge	0	3	2	5
Duluth Denfeld	1	0	0	1

SCORING SUMMARY

1st Period

time	team	description	Score
14:32	Duluth Denfeld	#24 Cory Backstrom (even strength) (#2 Drew Doyle, #11 Liam Doyle)	0 - 1

2nd Period

time	team	description	Score
3:49	Duluth Denfeld	#19 Ian Dwyer (even strength) (#18 Drew Deloia, #27 Brady Thole)	1 - 1
5:32	Duluth Denfeld	#13 Wrex Walz (even strength) (#8 Tommy Halverson, #14 Ryan Preimesberger)	2 - 1
11:10	East Ridge	#22 Joey Gonzaga (even strength) (#8 Tommy Halverson, #2 Emery Miller)	3 - 1

3rd Period

time	team	description	Score
4:25	Duluth Denfeld	#21 Hank Hughes (power play) (#4 Ivan Schmitz, #3 Ben Wiggins)	4 - 1
16:29	East Ridge	#13 Wrex Walz (even strength) (#19 Ian Dwyer, #25 Matthew Taverna)	5 - 1

Skater

Name	G	A	Pts	SOG	SOG%	PPG	PPA	SH	SHA	PIM	FOW	FOL	BS	+/-	GW	FG
Total	5	8	13	5	4	1	2	0	0	4	0	0	0		1	0
Emery Miller #2	0	1	1	0	0%	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ben Wiggins #3	0	1	1	0	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ivan Schmitz #4	0	1	1	0	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Kastelic #5	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nate Chlebeck #7	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tommy Halverson #8	0	2	2	0	0%	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brayden Braatz #9	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Griffen Bonk #10	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lance Kohnen #11	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joey Adamidas #12	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wrex Walz #13	2	0	2	2	100%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Ryan Preimesberger #14	0	1	1	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Will Plante #15	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Luke Moris #17	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ian Dwyer #19	1	1	2	1	100%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Michael Boyles #20	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hank Hughes #21	1	0	1	1	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Joey Gonzaga #22	1	0	1	1	100%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Matthew Taverna #25	0	1	1	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kaden Hotujec #26	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Skater

Name	G	A	Pts	SOG	SOG%	PPG	PPA	SH	SHA	PIM	FOW	FOL	BS	+/-	GW	FG
Total	1	2	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	8	0	0	0		0	1
Drew Doyle #2	0	1	1	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nic Burke #5	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vinny Udd #6	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Novak Doyle #7	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jakob Smith #9	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alexander Udd #10	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Liam Doyle #11	0	1	1	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Easton Feiro #12	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mason Kingsley #13	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Easton Gerard #14	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bruno DeCambaliza #17	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Veeti Korkiakoski #19	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cory Backstrom #24	1	0	1	1	100%	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1
Hans Hovland #25	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dawson Udd #26	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ayden Daniel #27	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jacob Hoch #29	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Logan Bradford #44	0	0	0	0	0%	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goalie

Name	MIN	W	L	T	SOG	GA	SV	GAA	SV%	SO
Total		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goalie

Name	MIN	W	L	T	SOG	GA	SV	GAA	SV%	SO
Total		0	1	0	54	5	49	5	0.9	0
Gabriel Miner #31	51:00	0	1	0	54	5	49	5	90.74%	0
Matthew Smith #35	0:00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%	0

Skater	East Ridge	Duluth Denfeld
Goals	5	1
Assists	10	2
Points	15	3
Shots On Goal	54	12
Shooting Percent	9.26%	8.33%
Power Play Goals	1	0
Power Play Assists	2	0
Short Handed Goals	0	0
Short Handed Assists	0	0
Penalty Minutes	4	8
Faceoffs Won	0	0
Faceoffs Lost	0	0
Blocked Shots	0	0

Goalie	East Ridge	Duluth Denfeld
Minutes Played	51:00	51:00
Shots On Goal	12	54
Goals Against	1	5
Saves	11	49
Goals Against Average	1	5
Saves Percent	91.67%	90.74%
Shutouts	0	0

Team	East Ridge	Duluth Denfeld
Power Plays	4	2
Power Plays Percent	25%	0%
Penalty Kills	2	4
Penalty Kills Percent	100%	75%
Power Plays Goals Allowed	0	1