After a big overtime win on Saturday in the Klippers home opener, any momentum they built during that game quickly disappeared as they welcome the Notre Dame Hounds to town. The Klippers lost 6-4 in a game that saw them make a trail to the penalty box often.

Besides an early goal from the Klippers, the first period did not start well. They did strike first just over six minutes in when Ethan Mack got the puck to Ethan King on the rush, and he streaked down the right side for a shot that was stopped, but Carson Baylis was following up and scored for his first of the season. With the goal, Baylis became the seventh goal scorer on seven goals to start the Klippers season.

For the rest of the period, things went downhill on the Klippers. They had a hard time leaving their zone and the frustration set in when Brenden Lee took a crosschecking penalty behind the play and right in front of the ref. On the man advantage, it was Elliot Dutil who scored for the Hounds with seven minutes left in the period after he picked th puck up from the faceoff and toedragged his way into the middle, then backhanded it past Brett Sweet.

Less than a minute later, the Hounds took the lead on the rush when Blake Rasmusson put home a rebound off a shot from Kevin Anderson, and suddenly the Hounds had a two goal lead.

On the next powerplay, Ethan Hillbig in the box for roughing, Sam Kroon scored on a pass from Jaryd Sych for a back door onetimer, and before the end of the period Johno Hoins also added a powerplay goal, also on a back door onetimer. 

After 1: Klippers 1 - 4 Hounds, shots 16-8 Hounds

After starting the period with over a minute of powerplay time, the Klippers got on the board again with Charles Obobaifo scoring a beauty. He recieved a stretch pass from Josh Pufahl and the moment the puck touched Obobaifo's stick, he tapped it past both defenders closing in on him and went to the net, scoring his second of the season on a back hand to beat Aiden Van Der Tas in net and give the Klippers some hope under two minutes into the period.

At the five minute mark, that hope was dashed as Elliot Dutil scored his second when the Klippers were about to take a penalty. Van Der Tas got to the bench for the Hounds and they put the pressure on with six men on the ice until a point shot from Jaryd Sych popped out to the left of the net and Dutil potted the easy rebound.

At the 8:27 mark in the period, it looked like the Klippers finally caugh a break when they got a four-minute powerplay on a slew foot from Matthew Morgan. In the first two minutes of that man advantage, the Klippers did get on the board with a great wrist shot from Ethan Mack, assists to Brenden Lee and Ethan King.

That gave the Klippers another full two minutes to work with, but they could not put the puck in and would head to the box shortly after, but still nothing came out of it. They outshot the Hounds in the period 14-10, but there wasn't much positives aside from that.

After 2: Klippers 3 - 5 Hounds, shots 26-22 Hounds

Again the Klippers started a period with over a minute of powerplay, and again they couldn't score. Moments after that ended, the Klippers were back on the penalty kill and that issue would persist the rest of the period.

In their second powerplay of the period, the Hounds scored again thanks to Sam Kroon's second of the game, a well aimed slap shot that went through traffic and beat Sweet glove side before he even saw it, assists to Sych and Anderson.

At the eight minute mark, the Klippers scored their second powerplay goal of the game when Noah Lindsay tapped home a rebound after a Brenden Lee point shot, and Tylin Hillbig would also earn an assist.

After that, it was a steady stream to the penalty box. Even though their top unit was on, the Hounds couldn't seem to score for the latter half of the period despite six minutes of powerplay in the final half of the period.

FINAL: Klippers 4 - 6 Hounds, shots 8-4 Hounds in period, 34-26 Hounds overall

Goal scorers

Klippers: Baylis, Obobaifo, Mack, Lindsay

Hounds: Dutil (2), Kroon (2), Rasmuson, Hoins

The Hounds powerplay went 4/9 during the game while the Klippers went 2/7.