The Flint Powers Chargers met the Bay City Wolves last night in their barn to see who would come out flexing. With much noise on the outside these past two weeks, the Chargers were slated as underdogs. For most teams graduating 11 seniors, it would set their programs back a couple plus years. Not so much for Powers, as the local and surrounding hockey community gravitation to put on a Charger sweater still remains high.

Into the first period, the Chargers displayed clean puck movement out of their defensive zone and seemed to have a little pep in their step. The Chargers got some early looks at the Wolves goal but nothing to hit the back of the twine. At the 6:49 mark, the Wolves highly touted senior captain Gunnar Weber capitalized on the questionable interference penalty by Blake Dawson. Weber cycled on the edge of the perimeter, snapping a low wrister to the far corner of netminder Blake Zloto.   He kept the lead to just one, turning away multiple Wolves shots before the close of the first period.

Zloto continued to make his presence known into the second period, stuffing the wolves forward with his sprawling right leg pad save. The momentum changer came on the Nolan Berner shorthanded equalizer. With Parker Bendall in the box, sophomore Ayden Cook dished senior Berner, who then used his smooth, quick stride burying it past the netminder Leonard. With two minutes remaining in the second, sophomore Andrew Burny made a heads up play feeding Caleb Doll up the gut (blueline to blueline) and Doll did not disappoint, lifting the Chargers 2-1. With just 15.5 seconds on the clock, Cook tried to make it two penalty shot goals in just two games but Leonard disrupted Cook just enough to diffuse the threat.

After a huge glove save by Zloto early into the third period, the Chargers tore off three consecutive goals. Talk about a complete linemate contribution. The aggressive forechecking linemates of Cook and Parmentier forced the Wolves player to cough up the puck behind the net. AP then firmly passed it to the slot and Sly ripped it home. At 12:03, Doll struck again. Bendall aided Doll as he entered the Wolves zone. Doll sniped netminder Leonard from the top of the circle to bump the lead 4-1. Sophomore Gavin Vorwerk capped off the contest on a 2 v 1, notching his first varsity goal wearing the Charger uniform.

Netminder Blake Zloto backed the Charger SVL win, turning aside 17 of 18 shots.