Colton Yellow Horn Hat Trick Last Night

I know many Americans fans like to keep up with Colton Yellow Horn. He had a great game last night scoring a hat trick in his teams (Ontario Reign) victory. He leads his team with 12 goals and they are in first place in their division.

Reign Beat Solar Bears 6-2
Colton Yellow Horn Records Third Reign Hat Trick

ONTARIO, Calif. – The Ontario Reign (13-5-0-0), defending Pacific Division Champions and proud affiliate of the NHL’s 2012 Stanley Cup Champion Los Angeles Kings, earned a 6-2 win over the the Orlando Solar Bears (8-9-2-1) before 6,726 at Citizens Business Bank Arena Wednesday night extending their home win streak to five games.  Colton Yellow Horn led the way with a hat trick and Kyle Kraemer added a goal and an assist.

After 11:50 of scoreless hockey, Kyle Clifford stretched the mesh to make it 1-0 as the Kings winger tipped Chris Huxley’s point shot past Solar Bears netminder Hannu Toivonen.  Ontario jumped out to a 3-0 lead on a pair of power-play goals by Colton Yellow Horn, his 10th and 11th of the season.  The first came at 13:35 as Yellow Horn took a cross-ice feed from Kyle Kraemer at the base of the right circle and promptly fired a wrist shot.  Yellow Horn lit the lamp again at 19:40 from nearly the identical position at the base of the circle with a laser of a snap shot.  On the ensuing faceoff, Orlando crashed the net and C.J. Severyn cut Ontario’s lead to 3-1with just over two ticks on the clock.

The Reign outshot the Solar Bears 11-1 in the second frame.  Orlando almost escaped without allowing a goal, but with just 10 seconds left, Kyle Kraemer extended the Ontario lead to 4-1.  The wily winger fought off a defender as he skated out of the corner to the top of the left circle and ripped a shot into the top of the net.

A slash by Yellow Horn on Rob Mignardi led to a long delay as several fights broke out, leading to 62 minutes in penalties and a Solar Bears power play.  Orlando wasted no time as Nick Petersen scored 31 seconds into the man advantage.  But Orlando couldn’t stop the Reign as Dan DaSilva set Yellow Horn up on a breakaway which he buried to register the third Ontario hat trick in five games.  It was his 12th marker of the season.  Mario Lamoureux redirected Paul Mara’s blast over Toivonen’s glove at 14:24 and the Reign went on to win 6-2.

JP Berube stopped 16 of the 18 shots he faced on the way to his fifth win of the season.  Toivonen made 25 saves on 31 shots in the loss.  Kraemer’s assist in the first period was his 109th point in a Reign sweater which pushed him past former Reign blueliner David Walker as the all-time Reign points leader.  His second-period tally increased his points total to 110.


Three Stars:
1. ONT – Colton Yellow Horn
2. ONT – Kyle Kraemer
3. ONT – Dan DaSilva