The Chargers opened Saginaw Valley League play as they traveled north to the Bay County Civic arena to face the Bay City Wolves. This was both their first SVL game of 2021-22 season.

The Chargers continued their dominance Wednesday night when Brenden Tarpening capitalized on a powerplay, ringing home a back door one-timer from Nolan Berner and Trey Carlock. It did take nearly eight minutes for the Chargers to break loose. The Wolves started out the game with back-to-back penalties for cross-checking and interference. At the 6:31 mark, Jack Dawley netted one from Czarnecki and Carlock making it 2-0. Moments later, Mason Czarnecki incurred a 5-minute major penalty for boarding leading into one of the Wolves best series of opportunities of the night. As the Wolves peppered shots at Lenger, he came up with a “Hasek” like save laying on his back in the crease stopping the puck with the inside of his waffle blocker. The continual effort to burn the 5-minute penalty was coupled with Cramer and Sly blocking shots from the point.

Just five minutes into the 2nd Period, Czarnecki took a dime from Tarpening going in solo on freshman netminder Nash Leonard lifting the Chargers up by three. Nearly a minute later, Jacque Lavrack buried the 4th assisted by Barbour and Gerhardt. As the period winded down with a handful of penalties being dished out to both teams, Barbour finished off a tick tack toe powerplay sequence consisting of Czarnecki and Salayko.

Halfway into the 3rd period Berner caught a pass from Cramer slithering his way down the ice on a breakaway blasting it by Wolves’ Leonard making it 6-0. The Chargers didn’t show any mercy as Gerhardt and Salayko each cashed in on powerplay goals to cut the game short to an 8-0 route with 2 minutes left in the 3rd. Peyton Lenger and Nick Kurtiak split the duties between the pipes to keep the Wolves scoreless.