Bell nets hat trick in five-point night to lead North Stars to Game 3 win
Just a week after being named the first-ever consecutive MVP in SJHL history, Battlefords North Stars’ forward Kian Bell added another dazzling performance to his ‘greatest hits’ catalog, scoring a hat trick and five points Tuesday, in a North Stars’ Game 3 win in Melville.
Picking up a point on each of his team’s five goals in a 5-3 triumph, the dynamic winger proved instrumental in a resilient effort by the Stars, to battle back from a multi-goal deficit twice over the course of the night, trailing 2-0 at the end of the first and 3-1 less than five minutes into the third.
“We’re a third-period team, so going into the locker room for the second intermission [with a power play to start the third], we were super confident,” Bell said postgame. “We knew the third period’s our best, and we able to go out there and show it.”