For the second home game in a row the Estevan Bruins put nine goals on the board. This time the victim was the Notre Dame Hounds, as Estevan rolled to a 9-2 victory over the visitors from Wilcox.

Arthur Miller scored twice and Estevan got goals from eight other players in the win. Johnny Witzke, who scored the ninth goal, put up a career-best four point night. The Bruins also got a goal each from Jayden Davis, Tanner Manz, Michael McChesney, Kaelan Holt, Matthew Chekay, and Jerzy Martin.

"The game recently has been kind of slowing down for me," said Witzke. "Coach Carter (Bruins assistant coach Carter Duffin) has been telling me to keep it simple and use my skating, not as many head fakes and just get the puck up ice. That's what I did mostly tonight. I didn't have any big plays but I got the puck up ice and our forwards burried it." 

Davis got the scoring started just 56 seconds in as he and Hayden Guilderson went in 2-on-0 on Hounds goalie Jacob Standen. Guilderson waited just the right amount of time to out-wait Standen and slip it over to Davis, who had the whole net to shoot at and casually deposited his second of the season.

Estevan erupted for four goals in the first 4:06 of the game, and that ended the night for the usually-stellar Standen, whose defense gave him little help. When McChesney, left all alone to hunt down his own rebound, made it 4-0, the hook came out Jack Ryan came in.

Ryan faired little better however, as the Bruins scored four more in the middle frame, including Miller's second of the night. Miller couldn't cap off the hat trick, so he settled for a fight with Tim Gould instead, inflicting a beatdown on him in front of the Bruins net in the final minute.

"Oh yeah, I think my teammates and the fans are starting to know that's my type of game," said Miller, who was named first star in the physical, chippy affair. "When it's that type of game I'm going to come up to play every time. That's what I'm about."

In that second period Aigne MacGeady-Bruce got his first fight of the year under his belt as well. He was challenged to a fight by Kaleb Bell after levelling Ahmed Ally with one of the hardest hits of the season in open ice. 

Witzke added his ninth in the third, but by then the Bruins had already run away with the game. 

"The nights where we start trying to force offense is when we struggle and our defensive game suffers," said Chris Lewgood after the win. "The nights where we play the right way we tend to generate more offense. If we try to take shortcuts, we never get where we're going. If we put in the work and stick our noses to the grindstone, we tend to get the bounces and get rewarded."

Estevan is back in action on Friday night at home against the Melville Millionaires for the first time since opening weekend. After that they'll battle with the Millionaires in Melville on Saturday night to close out the pre-Christmas schedule.