Class 2A boys' hockey quarterfinals: Edina 6, Stillwater 1

Edina senior defenseman Tyler Nanne scored twice before ever directing a shot on goal. There was 6:24 left in the first period when Nanne got his third goal, this one on a one-timer into an open net.

Perhaps because of the fluky circumstances surrounding his first two goals (and seemingly routine nature of his third), Nanne's hat trick failed to inspire the Xcel Energy Center crowd — not a single hat was flung onto the ice surface as is normally the custom.

"It's kind of a big building to make a hat get onto the ice," said Nanne, who has committed to play at Ohio State. "But if one did make it, that would have been cool."

Thanks to Nanne's scoring outburst — he finished with four goals — defending champion Edina (23-4-1), the tournament's top seed and state's No. 1-ranked team, moved on with an 6-1 dismantling of unseeded Stillwater (16-11-2) on Thursday in the quarterfinals of the Class 2A boys' hockey tournament at Xcel Energy Center.

"Usually I'm kind of an unlucky guy, so it was kind of a holiday out there for me [Thursday]," said Nanne, one of 10 Mr. Hockey finalists.

Nanne, grandson of tournament TV analyst Lou Nanne, scored his first goal only 54 seconds in when his dump-in took a lively bounce off the end boards before ricocheting in off startled Ponies goaltender Josh Benson. Nanne scored again early in the first when his intended pass through the slot deflected in off a defenseman's stick.