FAIRMONT — Breckenridge-Wahpeton junior center Jase Jensen executed four of the five ways to score a goal in the sport of ice hockey on Saturday.

Jensen erupted for a game-best six goals — including three even-strength goals, one via the power play, another while short-handed and an empty-netter — to power the Blades to a 9-5 nonconference victory over the Fairmont Area Cardinals at Martin County Arena.

“He’s scored a lot of goals against us here during the last two or three years,” Cardinals head coach Kris Olson said in reference to Jensen. “He’s just difficult to stop.”

Olson’s post-game analysis proved as accurate as a Jensen backhand wrister. The Minnesota elite prospect has amassed a dozen goals and four assists during the Blades’ four consecutive wins at Fairmont’s hockey facility. Jensen netted one goal as an eighth-grader in a 5-3 victory in 2015, collected a hat trick and two assists in a 7-4 decision in 2016, and tallied two more goals and two helpers during last December’s 5-2 win.

Ironically, Jensen needed only 9 seconds to deliver the first of 14 goals generated by the visiting Blades and hometown Cardinals in Saturday’s score-a-thon. Tanner Barth collected the puck from the initial faceoff and filtered a perfect crossing pass to Jensen for a goal through the infamous five-hole.

Fairmont Area captain Tanner DeWar, however, answered less than 4 minutes later with the equalizer to end the Cardinals’ season-opening offensive drought. Carson Kuhl delivered the first of his game-best three assists to DeWar along the left wing. DeWar flipped the biscuit into the basket at the 13:02 juncture in the opening period.

Fairmont Area had given up 21 goals during its first two losses of the current campaign without scoring.

“We achieved one of our goals,” Olson said in reference to the Cardinals’ 24 shots-on-goal total. “We wanted at least a 20-shot game today in order to have a chance to compete and we did that.”

Isaac Wohlers did not take long to break the tie by taking teammate Bjorn Birkelo’s pass to the left wing during a 2-on-1 breakaway and flipped the puck over Fairmont Area goalie Dakotah Hoefker’s shoulder for a 2-1 lead at 11:26 in the first.

Jensen later delivered a short-handed goal with only 1:45 remaining in the first period to extend the Blades’ margin to 3-1. Jensen pocketed a steal on an errant clearing pass, made a hard-cutting left-to-right juke and backhand-flipped the puck into the net.

Fairmont Area freshman Eli Anderson then opened the second period with the first goal of his prep varsity career off a double-assist from Karson Legred and Kuhl. Legred and Kuhl carried the faceoff close to the crease before Anderson wristed his shot by Blades goalie Hunter Wamre and into the top shelf just 26 seconds into the middle segment.

Wohlers and Jensen then combined to trigger three unanswered goals to close out the second period with a 7-2 advantage on the scoreboard.

Wohlers intercepted a pass near neutral ice, made a right-wing rush and quick-wristed his shot into the top left shelf for a 4-2 lead at the 14:58 mark.

Jensen then scored the game’s only power-play goal by stuffing home a rebound off of Wohlers’ initial shot that Hoefker blocked at the 4:12 juncture.

Jensen later redirected James Finkeral’s slapshot from the point and into the left corner of the net at 1:42 before Blades teammate Thomas Withuski produced another short-handed goal off Jack Rittenour’s assist only 27 seconds later.

Olson’s advice in the lockerroom during the second intermission proved effective, as the Cardinals’ offensive attack proved efficient during the final 17-minute frame. Anderson and Legred scored back-to-back goals, with Legred later adding his second net-finding blast, on just seven shots on goal during the third.

“We’re in the process of figuring out what combinations work,” said Olson. “There were a number of good things that happened in the third (period), so now we need to carry that momentum into our next game.”

The speedy Anderson weaved through traffic before wristing home a rising liner from the point that beat Wamre near the left pipe at the 10:50 mark in the third.

Legred then jammed home Mason Kotewa’s ice-hugging feed from the left wing to whittle the Cardinals’ deficit to 7-4 with 4:21 remaining in regulation.

Jensen, however, slammed the brakes on Fairmont Area’s momentum by countering with a steal-turned-unassisted goal to restore a four-goal lead at 2:20. Legred answered by punching home Wamre’s deflection of Kuhl’s initial shot just 30 seconds later to slice the Blades’ lead to 8-5.

Jensen closed out the game by controlling the puck out of a neutral-ice scrum, squaring up and directing his ice-hovering shot into an empty net with only 53 seconds remaining. Ironically, Jensen did not score via a penalty shot on Saturday.

Hoefker produced a game-best 28 saves for the Cardinals, while Wamre tallied 19 stops to net the win for the Blades.

Fairmont Area (0-3) plays host to Faribault at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Martin County Arena, while Breckenridge-Wahpeton (2-2) plays host to MayPort at 7 p.m. Tuesday night in Wahpeton, N.D.

B/W 3-4-2–9

FA 1-1-3–5

Scoring Plays

1st Period

BW–Jase Jensen (Tanner Barth), 16:51.

FA–Tanner DeWar (Carson Kuhl), 13:02.

BW–Isaac Wohlers (Bjorn Birkelo), 11:26.

BW–Jase Jensen (unassisted), SH., 1:45.

2nd Period

FA–Eli Anderson (Karson Legred, Carson Kuhl), 16:34.

BW–Isaac Wohlers (unassisted), 14:58.

BW –Jase Jensen (Isaac Wohlers), PP., 4:12.

BW–Jase Jensen (James Finkeral), 1:42.

BW– Thomas Withuski (Jack Rittenour), SH., 1:15.

3rd Period

FA–Eli Anderson (unassisted), 10:50.

FA–Karson Legred (Mason Kotewa), 4:21.

BW–Jase Jensen (unassisted), 2:20.

FA–Karson Legred (Carson Kuhl) , 1:50.

BW–Jase Jensen (unassisted), 0:53.

Shots on goal: Breckenridge-Wahpeton 10-13-14–37; Fairmont Area 10-7-7–24.

Saves: Dakotah Hoefker (FA) 7-9-12– 28; Hunter Wamre (BW) 9-4-04.

Penalties: Fairmont Area 3 for 9 minutes; Breckenridge-Wahpeton 3 for 9 minutes.

Power-play chances: Breckenridge-Wahpeton 1 for 3; Fairmont Area 0 for 3.