In a game that featured a couple handfuls of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's top offensive weapons the Stars aligned for North Battleford Friday night.

Reigning SJHL Rookie of the Year Lane Young scored twice in the first period, Dustin Gorgi also potted a pair with their linemate Ben Allen bulging the twine en route to a 5-1 Stars win over the Broncos in the Battlefords.

Despite the score, Assistant Coach Brayden Klimosko wasn't too deflated by his club's performance. He pointed to Young's second goal with just five seconds in the opening frame which stood as the game winner to be a back breaker.

"We're coming out of there pretty nice, all of a sudden it's four-on-three, they scored to make it tied and you're thinking 1-1 out of this period you are pretty happy. Then all of a sudden they score one late there."

Parker Wakaruk did put Humboldt in front in the first with his fourth of the season during four-on-four play from Daniel McKitrick and Erik Gardiner.

However that was all they could get past Joel Gryzbowski who stopped 28 on the night to outduel Garrett Mason who was 25/29 in just his third loss.

Klimosko feels like they let the Stars' off the hook on a number of occasions.

"We missed the net a couple times, we hit the post, some of those things you just have to bear down. You are not going to get 20 rushes a game like we have been early on in the season where we score on five of them. You are probably going to get five or six odd man rushes, you've got to bury your chances."

Special teams weighed in the Stars' favour as well, they were 2/6 on the power-play, the Broncos had 10 seconds of time with the man advantage, they didn't score, the took a minor to even it out.

With the loss the gap gets tighter atop the Finning Division standings but the Broncos are still three up on NB for the lead.

Humboldt will host Yorkton Saturday at 7:30 before embarking on a four game road trek next week.

Elsewhere Friday in the SJHL, Melfort fell 4-1 in Yorkton, Flin Flon doubled Kindersley 6-3, Melville upset Weyburn 3-2 and Estevan grounded the Nipawin Hawks 4-3.

You can hear Klimosko's complete post-game comments below as well as Carter Seminuk who joined Clark Stork during the broadcast.