A postponment of the Thunder Bay North Stars/Minnesota game due to bus issues for the Iron Rangers gave Red Lake the perfect opportunity to move into a first place tie in the SIJHL standings Saturday night.
However, the Fort Frances Lakers had other ideas, playing the role of spoiler in a 5-3 win in Cochenour.
Keegan Tiringer, Bryce Young and Connor Jacobs scored for the Miners.
Zach WIllms stopped 34-shots in the loss.
In Thief River Falls, the Dryden GM Ice Dogs were shutdown in Thief River Falls 4-1.
The Ice Dogs could only muster 21-shots on the Norskies net.
Trey Palermo scored the lone goal.
Jacob Anthony made 31-saves in his season debut.
The rematch is Sunday at 5:00pm.
