Muskies buck Broncos here

The Muskies have been on a roll so far this young season against NorWOSSA opponents. And they passed a big test with flying colours last night with an 8-3 romp over the International Falls Broncos in their annual exhibition clash here.
The Broncos actually opened the scoring when Chris Nagurski beat Muskie starter Jamie Booth on a power play with 6:02 left in the first period.
But the black-and-gold roared back quickly when Ross Anderson (assisted by Cole Hayward and James Asplund) tipped one in less than a minute later.
It was all Muskies in the second frame, exploding for three unanswered goals by Kevin Webb, Adam McTavish (assisted by Jeff Savage), and David Lloyd to make it 4-1 heading into the final 15 minutes.
The Broncos tried to come back in the third when Patrick Gushulak beat Booth to close the gap to 4-2. But Hayward, from Webb and Anderson, got that one right back to regain a three-goal cushion.
It was the Broncos’ turn to score again when Sevon Simon netted one to make it 5-3 but that was as close as they would get.
Hayward (assisted by Webb and Anderson) scored on a breakaway with 3:17 to go, then Webb (assisted by Anderson and Kris Esselink) made it 7-3 just moments later.
Webb then iced the scoring, and his hat trick, with a breakaway goal with just 29 ticks left on the clock.
Even though the Muskies controlled the scoreboard, the Broncos actually outshot the black-and-gold 33-31.
Muskie head coach Glen Edwards had been confident Monday afternoon that his team, coming off a pair of 11-1 wins in Sioux Lookout over the weekend to extend their NorWOSSA record to 3-0, would play a good game against the Falls.
“It will be a good benchmark game to see where [we] stand. The Falls are always quick and well-coached,” stressed Edwards. “[But] it will be the Broncos’ first game so we have a bit of an advantage because we have played three games.”
“They skate hard and put a lot of pressure on us in our zone,” echoed co-coach Ken Christiansen. “We need a game like this tonight. It is a fun game . . . quite a competition.”
The Muskies and Broncos split their two-game, home-and-home series last year.
“We were pretty evenly-matched last year but it is hard to say [how the game will go] because 15 minutes goes by quick,” reasoned Edwards. “It will be an up and down the ice game.”
Christiansen said last night’s game is the kind of game the Muskies should be playing all the time.
“It is too bad we can’t get more games like this,” he remarked. “I like playing American teams because they are very competitive and they give us a good run and that is what we need.”
In fact, the Muskies face another American team–Chisholm–here this Friday night.
Meanwhile, Edwards said they’ve continued to work on special power plays and penalty killing during practice. “We will [continue to] work on defensive plays in our end and break outs and getting out of our zones,” he noted.