 Win or go home. It's as simple as that this time of the year as prep boys hockey playoffs continue on. Saturday, Section 7-2A's reigning champ look to avoid the latter as they took on third ranked Elk River Zimmerman. A win for the Thunder Hawks would put them in their second straight section championship, third period. Thunder Hawks trailing by two, but Gavin Hain gives them some life. Finding the back of the net on the power play lead cut to one. 11 seconds later they even things up. Lake McLaughlin fires the race shot home and we are tied at two. The Elks would take the lead with four minutes to go, but 25 seconds later Thunder Hawks answer again. It's Gavin Hain once more. His second ties it up, but he wasn't done a minute later. Micah Miller finds Hain from behind the net for the goal and the hat trick. Thunder Hawks go up 4-3. They add an empty netter. They win 5-3. Here they are after the game. They just played. They just competed. They battled. I mean, they didn't stand around and watch. They got the puck. They moved their feet. They had passion. They played with drive and commitment. They did everything that we talked about. Why they didn't for the first two periods, I have no idea. You know, I just told our team that we need to get it going and we're not going to be quitters. We're going to go outward or go out fighting and we got to pick it up. We're never out of it. We never think we're out of it. We have the ability through our three, four lines that we can score out of many goals we want. We put our minds to do whatever we want, so we're never out of it. We never thought that. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.