2A hockey: With three quick goals, Roseville defeats Edina

Roseville girls' hockey coach Vic Brodt can do without preseason goal-setting.

He prefers waiting about four or five games before asking players to view their potential.

When they spoke in December of winning a state title, Brodt listened and nodded.

"It's not very often you have a team that you feel can win the whole thing," Brodt said. "It's similar to my team in 2010."

Those Raiders beat Edina for a state title. They topped the Hornets again 4-1 in Friday's Class 2A semifinal at the Xcel Energy Center to advance to Saturday's title game.

The No. 2 seed Raiders (26-2-2) scored three goals within a two-minute, 11-second span of the second and third periods.

Sarah Knowlton scored on the power play with one minute remaining in the second period, knocking in a rebound of Lee Stecklein's backhand shot.

"It was deflating to not get out because we had killed their 5-on-3," Edina coach Laura Slominski said. "Then they score another one and it's a huge momentum switch."

No. 3 seed Edina (19-5-6) hoped to reach the state title game for the third consecutive season. But Roseville's Jordan Capeti killed the Hornets' buzz early in the third period.

Brodt said Capeti boasts one of the hardest shots on the team. But no one expected her slapshot from about 95 feet away to go in. Dahl inadvertently deflected the puck under the crossbar one minute and 11 seconds into the final period.

"It was late in the shift, we were tired and needed to get it deep," said Capeti, who scored just once this season before Friday's game. "I wanted to jump on every one of my players. Unbelievable."