Kansas City hosts the Rapid City Rush for a Tuesday night game. Mason McDonald gets the start in net. Rapid City gets on the board first and between both goalies, McDonald definitely got the brunt of the work. Not a whole lot of out of the ordinary play through the first 20 minutes. No penalties were called and after the first frame Mavericks trail 13-9 in shots.
Rapid City attacks first in the 2nd but the Mavericks attack harder. It starts with Jordan Ernst and ends with Jared VanWormer. Mavericks pepper the Rapid City goalie with shots ending the period with 31. Goals come from Ernst, Durocher and VanWormer. Willie Raskob up to 2 assists on the night and that's not all! Brett Beauvais had an amazing bar down goal and a questionable call was made. Apparently, there was Maverick interference with the goalie but looking at replays on twitter that does not seem to be the case. Either way, the Mavericks end the period ahead 3-1 in goals and ahead 31-20 in shots.
The third period showed some of Rapid City's defeat. They didn't really show much of a fight until pulling their goalie in the last 2 minutes. Mason McDonald comes up with his best saves of the game and helps his team to the 3-2 victory. 2 goals ended up being overturned in this game. Another happened in the 3rd but the net came off the posts. Thankfully for them, it does not hurt them. Shots end 36-28 for the Mavericks.
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