The West Rink at The Rec Center didn't seem like a long lost friend for the St. Louis Park Orioles as they played their first home game in more than a month and got four goals from Griffin Krone to lead them to a 9-1 rout of the Bloomington Kennedy Eagles Saturday afternoon.
The Orioles put the game away in the first period with four goals. Mason Amelse got the first goal as he scored from the right side of Eagle goalie Dominick Walton. St. Louis Park went up by two :20 later on Krone's first goal that came after he got a pass from Sam Fuller. Henry Schultz would put the Orioles ahead by three and Krone would pick up an assist on the period's final goal as he set up Miles rider and he fired a shot from the left faceoff circle that landed in the net.
St. Louis Park added five goals to their ledger in the second period. Amelse fed Krone and while Walton was playing outside the net, he found an opening and he would score the short-handed goal. It would be Krone who would get the hat trick as he fired a shot to the right of Walton and it crossed the goal line. Depth would be a factor for St. Louis Park as Ryan Moran would pick up his first goal of the season and Amelse would find the net a second time. There would be no shutout on this chilly Saturday afternoon when Kennedy's lone goal Nicked the net. Nicholas Poppenhagen passed to Nicholas Manning and he sent it passed the Orioles goalie, Brett Middleton, who made his first start of the season.
The third period, played in running time saw no change on the West Rink scoreboard.
Between the first and second periods, long time Orioles hockey manager Jake Fobbe was presented with the game puck after recording his 250th win last Thursday against the Woodbury Royals. Fobbe is in his eighth season as manager and according to former St. Louis park head coach Tim Donahue also plays floor hockey.
St. Louis Park improved their record to 9-8-1 and returns to action on Thursday, February 2 against the Orono Spartans at 7 PM at the Rec Center. Kennedy fell to 1-17 and hosts its city rival the Jefferson Jaguars on Tuesday, January 31 at 7 PM at the Bloomington Ice Garden.
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