NORAD Draft Hockey League

Week 13 was a week of statements. Platinum and the World Orphans each scored eight goals and allowed two, OUTCAN rolled to its fifth straight win behind another big night from Samson Leifer, while Velodrome and OS Offices both picked up wins. The five games combined for 43 goals. Here's the full Week 13 breakdown.

Platinum 8, Nelson & Company 2

Platinum bounced back from last week's loss to ACE in a hurry. Four unanswered goals in the first period gave Platinum a 4-0 lead, and Nelson & Company never got closer than four. Austin Storm opened the scoring, set up by Jesse Chambless, and Chambless assisted again when Matthew Huyge made it 2-0 about three minutes later. Jason O'Leary scored the game-winner, unassisted, to make it 3-0, and Andrew Marshall, set up by Alex Considine, capped the period with 2:35 left.

Tyler Zhao made it 5-0 in the second, assisted by Matt Quinn and Chambless. TJ Liebl, set up by Kimberly Liebl, finally broke the shutout, but Platinum answered right away. Chambless scored unassisted, and Storm added his second of the night just 46 seconds later, assisted by Ryan Spradlin and Joshua Blumberg, to make it 7-1.

Liebl scored again in the third, assisted by Anthony Mandt, to make it 7-2, but Considine, set up by Storm, closed out the scoring for the 8-2 final. Chambless was the star with a goal and three assists, Storm had two goals and an assist, and Liebl scored both Nelson & Company goals. Brandon Ward earned the win in net, and Scott Purdy took the loss.

OS Offices 5, ACE 2

Simon Kurtz scored twice, but ACE never found a third. OS Offices outscored ACE 5-2, getting the game-winner from Nicholas Cimino and a two-goal, one-assist night from Tyler Kettner.

Kurtz opened the scoring for ACE in the first period, but OS Offices answered with two goals. Michael Malan, set up by Cimino, tied it, and Kettner gave OS Offices a 2-1 lead. Kurtz tied it at 2-2 with his second goal of the night, and that was the last time ACE scored.

OS Offices took control early in the second period. Cimino, assisted by Philip Kerchner and Malan, scored the game-winner, and Kettner added his second goal just 63 seconds later to make it 4-2. Garrett Ashcroft, assisted by Kettner, scored in the third to set the final at 5-2. Justin Bell earned the win in net for OS Offices, and Ian Gustafson took the loss. OS Offices bounced back from last week's 6-3 loss to Nelson & Company.

Velodrome 5, Parker Winnelson 3

Hayden Smith scored the game-winner for the second time in three weeks. His third-period goal broke a 3-3 tie, and he added an insurance goal in the final minute as Velodrome beat Parker Winnelson 5-3 in a game that changed leads three times.

Nicholas Lang, assisted by Jennifer Burnett, gave Parker Winnelson the early lead, and Robert Mayfield, set up by Kevin White, tied it with 13 seconds left in the first period. The second period was the wildest of the night. Mike Flood put Velodrome in front, Josh Cronk, assisted by Nate Flint, tied it, and Brock Lofgren, assisted by Nate Clyncke, put Parker Winnelson up 3-2. Flood answered with 18 seconds left in the period, assisted by Ty Smith, to tie it at 3-3 going into the third.

Smith did the rest. He scored unassisted to make it 4-3, and added another unassisted goal with 46 seconds left to make it 5-3. Flood finished with two goals, Lofgren had one, and John Rhode earned the win in net for Velodrome. Casey Lang took the loss. Velodrome bounced back from last week's loss to OUTCAN.

OUTCAN Outlaws 6, J&J Automotive 2

Samson Leifer had four points in the second period alone. He scored twice and assisted on two more goals as OUTCAN scored four times in the period and ran away from J&J Automotive 6-2 for its fifth straight win.

Tim Kuhl, assisted by Hunter Winegarner and Dan Ennis, opened the scoring in the first period, and Christopher Mihlon, set up by Trevor Chavez, made it 2-0. In the second, Colin Brewster scored the game-winner, assisted by Leifer, and Leifer scored unassisted 67 seconds later to make it 4-0. Jonathan Valtin, assisted by Chris Daly, cut it to 4-1 for J&J Automotive, but Leifer scored again, and Colby Rasplicka, assisted by Leifer, added another 46 seconds later to make it 6-1.

Ryan Walker, assisted by Travis Hinton and Nicole Downs, scored for J&J Automotive in the third period to set the final at 6-2. Leifer has now scored seven goals over the last three weeks. Jennifer Burnett earned the win in net for OUTCAN, and Thane Gilmore took the loss.

World Orphans 8, Triple J 2

The World Orphans got goals from five different players on the way to an 8-2 win over Triple J. Austin Webb had a goal and three assists, Chad Ferguson had three assists, and Andre Wright, Jean-Stephane Desmarais, and Casey Victor each scored twice.

Wright scored twice in the first period, first assisted by Webb and Ferguson and then by Webb, to make it 2-0. Desmarais scored the game-winner in the second, assisted by Webb, and scored again, assisted by Ferguson, to make it 4-0. Triple J got on the board in the second period, but Webb, assisted by Desmarais and Ferguson, scored with 26 seconds left in the period to make it 5-1.

Victor scored twice in the third, once unassisted and once assisted by Kory Reimann, and Aaron Thoman, assisted by Ryan Case, made it 8-1. Chris Liang, assisted by Brie Varney, scored for Triple J to set the final at 8-2. Vance Grabow earned the win in net, and Sebastian Rivera took the loss. The World Orphans entered the night at 6-4-2 and left at 7-4-2.

The Big Picture

Week 13 brought 43 goals across five games, including two eight-goal performances and a four-point second period from Leifer. OUTCAN has now won five in a row, Smith has two game-winners in the last three weeks, and Platinum bounced back in a big way. Thirteen weeks in, the scoring keeps coming.