Storm Begin Two-Game Series at Fargo on Friday Night
USHL Tri-City Storm

Storm Begin Two-Game Series at Fargo on Friday Night

Published on April 3, 2026 under United States Hockey League (USHL)
Tri-City Storm News Release


FARGO, N.D. - The Tri-City Storm begin a two-game series with the Fargo Force on Friday night at Scheels Arena. Puckdrop is set for 7:05 pm CT.

The contest will be broadcast on FloHockey and YouTube (audio only).

YouTube link: https://youtube.com/live/pXEOadaV17A?feature=share

Tri-City (26-28-6, 58 pts, 5th place Western Conf.)

Clark Cup Playoffs: The Storm clinched their eighth straight berth to the Clark Cup Playoffs on Friday, March 6. With two games to play in the regular season, Tri-City is poised to finish as either the fourth, fifth, or sixth seed in the Western Conference. The Storm will compete in a best-of-three Western Conference first round series the weekend of April 10-12. Tri-City would host all games in this series should they finish as the fourth seed. The Storm would travel should they finish at fifth or sixth place in the standings.

A Lincoln win in any form tonight versus Des Moines would guarantee Tri-City a first round playoff series on the road.

A Storm regulation loss this evening also guarantees Tri-City a road series in the first round.

The Storm would additionally travel for the first round with an overtime or shootout loss and Lincoln overtime or shootout loss tonight.

Previously:

Defeated Sioux City 4-2 on road Sunday

Sunday: Gairin Michalski, Carson Pilgrim, Noah LaPointe, Mason Jenson (EN) produced Storm goals

Sunday: Goaltender Quinn Beumer picked up his second win in three career USHL starts, halting 23 of 25 Musketeer shots

Team Notes:

Sunday's win snapped a ten-game losing streak, the second-longest on record in franchise history behind team's 19-game losing streak during 2008-2009 season

Ten-game losing streak tied for second-longest by a USHL team this season (Waterloo)

Despite ranking last in the USHL this season at 13.4%, power play is 5-15 (33.3%) over the past seven games

Penalty kill (83.3%) ranks second in USHL

Averaging 11.15 penalty minutes per game, the second-least among USHL teams...Fargo is least penalized team in league at 10.10 penalty minutes per game

Eight shorthanded goals this season are third among USHL teams

Player Notes:

Bode Laylin: four points (1-3-4) over his past four games...38 points this season are seventh among USHL defenseman...11 goals are third among USHL blue liners...six power play goals tie for first among league defenseman

Carson Pilgrim: four points (1-3-4) over his past four games...has scored in three straight road games...team scoring leader logged first multi-point game since February 15 on Sunday

Michal Pradel: four shutouts tie for first among USHL goaltenders....914 save percentage ranks fourth...2.65 goals against average places eighth

Owen Nelson: logged .927 save percentage over his last eight starts (293 saves on 316 shots)

Quinn Beumer: 87 saves on 93 shots across the first three starts of his USHL career, a .935 save percentage

Cam Springer: five shorthanded points this season place second among USHL players

Oliver Ozogany: 102 shots this season rank fifth among USHL rookies

Carson Pilgrim (18-23-41) leads team in scoring...Bode Laylin (11-27-38) follows

Fargo (36-19-5, 77 pts, 2nd place Western Conf.)

Clinched berth to Clark Cup Playoffs and number two seed in Western Conference for first-round bye

Split two-game home series with Dubuque last weekend...fell 3-1 on Friday, won 6-2 Saturday

Saturday: Luke McNamara, Stepan Cerny, Graham Jones, Cullen McCrate, Samuel Hrenak (goaltender - EN), Graham Jones (EN) scored goals

Saturday: Hrenak stopped 21 of 23 Dubuque shots

Kolin Sisson (19-33-52) leads Force in scoring...Graham Jones (26-24-50) follows

Season series: Friday's matchup is the fifth of six regular season meetings between the Storm and Force. Tri-City is 2-2-0 against Fargo this year, including 1-1-0 at Scheels Arena. The teams last met when they split a two-game set across January 2-3 in Fargo.

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