Blue Jays hand Legacy first loss in 10 games Friday night

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Jan. 16—JAMESTOWN — On Jan. 15, 2026, the Bismarck Legacy boy's hockey team won its 10th straight game — putting an end to Minot United's 13 game win streak.

On Jan. 16, the tables turned on the Sabers.

Jamestown defeated the high-flying Sabers 3-2 to improve to 8-3 overall.

"Legacy is the No. 2 seed but one of the things our team does really well is — when it is going well, we turn the page and when it is going bad we turn the page," JHS head hockey coach Jake Stilwell said. "This was just another night at John L. against a really good team and we happened to score one more than them tonight. That's really rewarding four this group."

Jamestown's next action is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Jan. 22 at Grafton. The Blue Jays' game scheduled for Jan. 17 against Hazen was postponed due to illness. A make up date has yet to be determined.

While Legacy scored the ice-breaker on Friday night, it was the Jays who entered the first intermission with a lead.

At the 8:18 mark, senior Ethan Oettle scored an even strength goal by way of an assist from Parker Roelfsema. Zane Wurzer, a sophomore in his first year with the Blue Jay varsity squad scored the go-ahead goal at the 12:36 mark. Both of the Jays' first period goals were the first of the season for Oettle and Wurzer.

The Blue Jays kept the pressure on.

With five minutes gone in the second period, Gavin Schafer, Max Whitman and Brady Nenow pulled together to score Jamestown's third goal of the night. Nenow was credited with the score while Schafer and Whitman received assists on the play.

"It relieves so much pressure when we score," Blue Jay goalie Leif Hanson said. "When (my teammates) score, I can focus on getting set and back to my game. I can't take a shift off, if I take a break, they score."

Hanson didn't take any breaks in periods two and three.

"Hanny is our rock," Stilwell said. "We learned last year how mature he was even as a sophomore. He approaches the game very level-minded. He's not a guy who, when he gives up a soft one, he gets down on himself, he's a very next-save oriented kind of guy.

"We needed him to make big saves at the end there and he looked really big in the net and that's what good goalies do," he said. "He did awesome tonight, it was fun to watch for sure."

Hanson, a second-year goalie for the Jays, made a total of 23 saves against the Sabers — including one that every Legacy fan thought had crossed the line and tied the game at three goals apiece. Officials later ruled there was no goal scored — much to the relief of the home crowd, the Blue Jay coaches and the junior goalie himself.

"I knew I had it between my legs — I saw it there so when they called it a goal I was just kind of bewildered," Hanson said. "I just tried to explain it to the refs and it was good that they realized that mistake."

Right after Hanson's clutch save, Jamestown was assessed back-to-back minors to put them down a skater for four minutes of play. The Blue Jays managed to kill off the power play and remain ahead 3-2. With 1:30 left in regulation, Legacy pulled goalie Brody Krumwiede to go 6-on-5.

"It takes heart to keep the puck on the outside and block shots," Stilwell said. "Pucks are hard and they hurt but we did a great job blocking and putting ourselves in situations where if they were going to shoot it, the puck was going to get blocked so they had to look for a different look. They scored on a power play backdoor early in the game but I don't know if they got a puck through the box after that. That was a great adjustment by our team. That was a hard, that was a gritty, that was a fun win."

Jamestown 3, Legacy 2

LEG 1 0 1 — 2

JHS 2 1 0 — 3

Scoring

First period

1. LEG, Harrison Johnson (Isaac Jerome), 3:27; 2. JHS, Ethan Oettle (Parker Roelfsema), 8:18; 3. JHS, Zane Wurzer (Brady Anderson), 12:36.

Second period

4. JHS, Brady Nenow (Gavin Schafer, Max Whitman), 5:12.

Third period

5. LEG, Isaac Jerome (Carter Houn), 1:39.

Goalie saves: Legacy, Brody Krumwiede 8-11-7—26; Jamestown, Leif Hanson 3-9-11—23

Penalties: Legacy 1 for 2 minutes; Jamestown 4 for 8 minutes