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<\/p>\nBRAINERD \u2014 It was a disappointing night for the Brainerd Warriors Tuesday, Jan. 13.<\/p>\n
Coming off a 2-2 tie on the road against Roseau Saturday, Jan. 10, Brainerd head coach Jerr Johnson thought his team was building momentum in the middle of the season.<\/p>\n
Whatever momentum gained was halted by an 8-1 loss to Buffalo at Essentia Health Sports Center.<\/p>\n
After a scoreless first period, Buffalo scored three goals in 1:30 to take a 3-0 lead with 6:26 left in the second period.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was the hard part about this game, which is that we\u2019ve really struggled in first periods at home and we had a good start,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cIt just got away from us in the second period. We had been playing some good hockey coming into the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cooper Dalbec scored back-to-back goals and Evan Hinnenkamp, who assisted on the first goal, made it 3-0 with an unassisted goal.<\/p>\n
Brainerd showed a little life with a power-play goal with 2:06 left in the second period. Zander Peterson scored his third goal of the season on assists from Ben Fields and Connor Fulton.<\/p>\n
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Brainerd celebrates Zander Peterson’s second-period goal against Buffalo on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, at Essentia Health Sports Center in Brainerd.<\/p>\n
Conrad Engstrom \/ Brainerd Dispatch<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s disappointing is we have really grown the last few weeks,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe had two power-play goals against Detroit Lakes and have improved on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Buffalo scored twice in the final minute of the second period to lead 5-1. Nolan Rumsch scored on an assist from Brandon Rodenwald. Rodenwald earned his third assist with 10 seconds left in the second period on Russell Ylitalo\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got it to 3-1 and we thought we were going to have a battle in the third period, but we gave up those two goals to end the second, which is hard to come back from,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n
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Brainerd’s Griffin Bartholomaus makes a save against Buffalo on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, at Essentia Health Sports Center in Brainerd.<\/p>\n
Conrad Engstrom \/ Brainerd Dispatch<\/p>\n
The Bison made it 6-1 56 seconds into the third period when Jaxson Murphy scored on an assist from Rumsch. Murphy scored the last goal of the game with three minutes left. Drew Lindquist added a power-play goal with 5:28 left.<\/p>\n
The Bison outshot Brainerd 34-10. Brainerd\u2019s Griffin Bartholomaus played the first two periods and recorded 20 saves. Tristan Rollins made six saves in the third period.<\/p>\n
\u201cBuffalo is a good team and has had some good wins,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThey defend well and have a strong defensive core. We knew we were not going to get a lot of opportunities. We got away from our game a little bit, but we will get to bounce back with how busy our schedule is.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Warriors moved to 2-9-2 and will travel to play Willmar Thursday, Jan. 15, before hosting Spring Lake Park Friday, Jan. 16.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure we will have some conversations about what we need to be prepared for to fix for our game against Willmar on Thursday,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n
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Brainerd head coach Jerr Johnson coaches against Buffalo on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, at Essentia Health Sports Center in Brainerd.<\/p>\n
Conrad Engstrom \/ Brainerd Dispatch<\/p>\n
Second period: Buf-Cooper Dalbec (Evan Hinnenkamp, Russell Ylitalo) 9:06, Buf-Cooper Dalbec (Brandon Rodenwald) 9:57, Buf-Hinnenkamp 10:34, Brd-Zander Peterson (Ben Fields, Connor Fulton) PPG 14:54, Buf-Nolan Rumsch (Rodenwald) 15:55, Buf-Ylitalo (Rodenwald) 16:50<\/p>\n
Third period: Buf-Jaxson Murphy (Rumsch) 0:56, Buf-Drew Lindquist (Russell Ylitalo, Brandon Rondenwald) PPG 11:32, Buf-Jaxon Murphy (Charlie Rosso, Nolan Rumsch) 13:57<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: Brd 10, Buf 34<\/p>\n
Goalies: Brd-Griffin Bartholomaus (20 saves), Tristan Rollins (6 saves); Buf-Aubrey Baker (9 saves)<\/p>\n
Overall: Brd 2-9-2. Next: Brainerd at Willmar 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRAINERD \u2014 It was a disappointing night for the Brainerd Warriors Tuesday, Jan. 13. Coming off a 2-2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[14519,44202,44203,44204,5,44205],"class_list":{"0":"post-406573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-brainerd-lakes-area-sports","9":"tag-brainerd-minnesota","10":"tag-brainerd-warriors","11":"tag-conrad-engstrom","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-sports-in-the-brainerd-lakes-area"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115891644231169084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}