Kalamazoo now advances to face the Jamestown Iron Men . While the Iron Men won the season series 6-2

The two Wild Card series were completed setting the four teams competing for the division title. In the first the Kalamazoo K-Wings rather easily dispatched the Springfield Jr Blues by scores of 7-1 and 6-0. In the second the Port Huron Fighting Falcons and Johnstown Tomahawks tuscany wine tours went the full three games and then some before determining a winner. Port Huron won the first game 3-0 , but Johnstown returned the favor shutting out the Falcons in game two 2-0 . The third and deciding game was played in Johnstown and went to overtime before Port Huron pulled it out. The Tomahawks took a 3-1 lead at 8:45 in the third on a Mitch Kontny goal, but Port Huron refused to roll over. Just four minutes after the Kontny goal, Rick DeRosa netted a power play goal to pull the Falcons to within one. With time winding down and their season on the line Brett DAndrea struck for an extra attacker goal at 19:25 sending tuscany wine tours the game to overtime where Ian Miller scored unassisted at 3:28 of the extra period to give Port Huron the come from behind series win.
Kalamazoo now advances to face the Jamestown Iron Men . While the Iron Men won the season series 6-2-0 against tuscany wine tours Kalamazoo it was not a cake walk. Four of the eight games went to either overtime or a shoot out with Jamestown taking the win in all four. Only one game in the series was decided by more than a two goal margin, that being an early season 7-3 win by the Iron Men at home.
Evan Ritt , Tyler Dunagan tuscany wine tours and Luc Gerdes each had three goals against Kalamazoo on the season. In goal Reid Mimmack set the pace for the Iron Men before departing early for Bemidji State University. Mimmack was 4-0-0 against Kalamazoo. tuscany wine tours Tim Shaughnessy and Joe Ballmer are a combined 2-2-0 with a 1.97GAA and a .938SV%. Shaughnessy was replaced late in the season by Blake Wojtala who has yet to face Kalamazoo.
The K-Wing offense was led by Danny Hamburg's four goals with Robbie tuscany wine tours Payne contributing three goals. Alex Okicki and Marcus Due-Boje shared time between the pipes for Kalamazoo posting a 3.00GAA and .916SV% in the season series. Due-Boje got both starts in the Wild Card series tuscany wine tours and put up a miniscule 0.50GAA and .978SV%.
The Soo Eagles finished tuscany wine tours the season 5-1-2 against Port Huron in another tuscany wine tours tight matchup. Three of the eight games went to a shootout and the total goal differential on the season was only two goals. Tyler Marble was joined by Paige Skoog in net following a mid season trade. The pair teamed up for a 4-1-1 record against the Falcons on a 2.34GAA and a .944SV%. Brandon Adams and Eric Rivard each potted three goals in the season series. The Eagles tuscany wine tours were 4-22 on the power play.
For Port Huron Brett DAndrea and Tyler Spezia scored three goals each. DAndrea and Rick DeRosa were +6 against the Eagles in the eight games. Max Milosek and Alex Blankenburg had a 3-4-1 record against the Soo with a 2.88GAA and .912SV%. One area where the Falcons stumbled against tuscany wine tours the Eagles tuscany wine tours was on special teams where they were only 1-25 on the power play.
In the Austin Bruins last ten regular season games they got some offensive firepower from Jay Dickman (6G-7A), AJ Reid (7G-4A) and CJ Smith (6G-4A) to go along with decent goal tending to post a 6-3-1 record. Nicholas Lehr and Jason Pawloski each played five games in net with both logging 3 wins. Pawloski had the better tuscany wine tours numbers of the two with a 1.80GAA and .944SV% compared to Lehr's 2.41GAA and .904SV%.
The Minot Minotauros stumbled out of the gate losing their first seven and 11 of their first 13. The Minotauros tuscany wine tours rebounded for a strong mid season before struggling again late going just 2-8-0 to close out the season. Minot managed to hold off Aberdeen who made a late season 9-1-0 run at the fourth playoff spot. Minot scored 18 goals over the last ten games while allowing tuscany wine tours 38. Lucas Oliver (4G-1A), Jake McCann (3G-1A) and Matt Audette (2G-2A) were the only multi goal scorers. Ryan Ruck picked up both wins over the last ten posting a 2-4-0 record to go along with a 3.45GAA and .909SV%.
This was a very tight match up all season. Austin came out on top of the battle finishing 5-1-4 against Minot with a total of five games decided in a shootout, and the Minotauros prevailing in 4 of those 5 games. Austin's Smith with 10 points was the only double digit scorer in the series. Minot was led by Steven Sherman's (2G-4A) six points. On the season Pawloski was 4-0-0 against Minot with three shutouts, a 0.73GAA and an unheard of .973SV%. Lehr put up some impressive numbers himself despite his 1-1-4 record. Lehr finished with a 1.74GAA and a .930SV%. Tyler Parks played the majority of minutes for the Minotauros against Austin finishing at 4-2-1 with a shutout and a 2.46GAA on a .921SV%. Austin nearly doubled up Minot's output on the powerplay tuscany wine tours netting eight goals on 41 opportunities for 19.5% while Minot only managed five goals on 48 attempts for 10.4%
Bismarck finished strong pulling points out of each of their final ten games going 7-0-3. The Bobcats averaged 4.1 goals a game while holding their opponents to 2 goals per game. Aaron Nelson used a 2.25GAA and .907SV% to go 4-0-2 while Bryan Nies was 3-0-1 with a 1.00GAA and .958SV%. Offensively, Bismarck had a fairly balanced attack with eight players scoring eight or more points. Nate Repensky (4G-12A) and Filip Starzynski (1G-10A) led in points while Matt Pohlkamp and Evan Giesler had six goals apiece.
Brookings' final ten games saw them go 5-5-0. Drew Weigman recorded the decision in all ten games playing all but 71 minutes in net. Weigman tuscany wine tours compiled a 3.49GAA and .899SV% while Chase Wilson put up 1.69GAA and .920SV% in his limited time. Aidan Cavallini (4G-1A) led the Blizzard in goals scored over the final ten games and Justin Moody (2G-7A) headed up the offense with his 9 points. Brookings was 20-9-1 at home this season, but their road record was 12-14-4.
The head-to-head match up saw Bismarck go 5-3-2 against Brookings due in great part to strong tuscany wine tours goal tender play as the offense generated only 26 goals in the ten meetings. Nelson was 4-2-2 with two shutouts while Nies was 1-1-0. The two combined for a 1.90GAA and .942SV% against the Blizzard. Bismarck had five players register three goals apiece against Brookings. Weigman was in net for Brookings in 8 of the 10 games against Bismarck generating a 5-1-0 record with two shutouts, a 2.02GAA and a .941SV%. Weigman received little support from an offense that scored only 19 goals. Eric Brenk (3G-3A) and Moody (1G-5A) were the only players with more than five points against tuscany wine tours the Bobcats. The special teams numbers were nearly identical in the series with Bismarck converting 7 of 47 opportunities while Brookings was 7 for 46.
The Corpus Christi Icerays finished fourth in the division 37 points behind the Amarillo Bulls , yet the Icerays gave the Bulls fits all season. Corpus Christi could lay claim to five of Amarillo's tuscany wine tours 14 total losses on the regular season.
In the opening game of their best of five series, Corpus Christi once again came out on top of Amarillo with a hard fought 2-1 win. However, from there the Bulls took control of the series taking the next three games by scores of 6-3 , 5-3 and 5-3 . The Icerays continued to make life difficult for the Bulls in the series scoring eight of their 11 goals in the third period, never letting Amarillo coast.
Offensively, Amarillo tuscany wine tours was led by Hampus Gustafsson and Captain John Rey with three goals each. Paul Berrafato who led all goalies during the regular season with 33 Wins, 1.66GAA and fifth with a .928SV% played all but 40 seconds against Corpus Christi. Berrafato's numbers slipped to 2.75GAA and .898SV% in the first round series.
Emil Romig , AJ Jarosz , Rudy Sulmonte and Brandon Berkley with two goals each led the way for Corpus Christi. Hayden Stewart and Ben Myers played to a combined 4.25GAA and .900SV%. tuscany wine tours Steward tuscany wine tours was in net for the Icerays lone victory.
While the Topeka Roadrunners dominated the regular season meetings running up a record of 7-2-1, the defending National Champion Texas Tornado turned the table on the Roadrunners. Texas went into Landon Arena in Topeka and left holding a commanding two game lead in their best of five series. The Tornado opened with a 2-1 victory on Saturday followed by an identical 2-1 score on Sunday. The series now moves back to Frisco, tuscany wine tours Texas where the Tornado need only one win in the next three games to earn a shot at Amarillo.
In the two games in Topeka, Tornado goal tender Hunter Leisner tuscany wine tours has resembled the goalie who led Texas to the Robertson Cup National Championship last season. Leisner is 2-0-0 with a 1.00GAA and .967SV%. The play of the blueliners has been equally as impressive with defensemen clearing rebounds to the boards and giving up the body to block shots. Texas has been outshot in both games, but second chance opportunities have been few and far between. Offensively the Tornado have been led by CJ Reuschlein (2G-0A) who has goals in both contests. Joining Reuschlein with two points each are Max Shuart (1G-1A) and Jason Eddy (0G-2A). The other Tornado to register points tuscany wine tours in Topeka are Scott Conway (1G-0A) and Alexey Soloviev (0G-1A).
Kyle Sharkey (1G-1A) and Tyler Andrew (1G-1A) are the multi point scorers for the Roadrunners while Kevin Patterson and Sean Gaffney have each contributed an assist. Roadrunners goaltender Spencer Viele must be feeling snake bit against the Tornado in the post season. In four games including last season's Robertson Cup Tournament games, when he backstopped the St Louis Bandits, Viele has a 2.43GAA and a .910SV% against Texas. However, Viele has only a single tuscany wine tours overtime win and suffered an overtime defeat in the National Championship Final when Justin Greenberg put a rebound in the back of the net.
Wenatchee struggled to a 3-7-0 record to end the season and still won the division crown finishing two points ahead of Fairbanks. Chris Kerr (5G-6A) and Max McHugh (5G-5A) were responsible for 21 of the Wild's 51 points in the final ten. Robert Nichols who was second in th