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IRON MOUNTAIN---The Escanaba High School hockey team cut through the fog, and cut through the Kingsford Flivvers, 9-0, in the season opener Tuesday night in the warm, moist Mountain View Ice Arena.

Graham Johnson, Carson Hughes, and Cale Carter all scored two goals as the Eskymos won on the two-period mercy rule. Cully Hayes stopped all seven shots he faced for the shutout in net.

With the temperature outside touching 55 degrees, with high humidity, the normally-frigid arena was downright tropical, with fog hovering above the ice surface and making the glass in front of the bleachers impossible to see through.

An early attempt to squeegie the water off the glass was abandoned when the fog kept forming.

The fog couldn't stop the spectators from seeing the Eskymos domination, which started 2:25 into the game when Nolan Bink took a Graham Johnson pass and put it past goaltender Nate Scullon for the first goal of the game.

Moments later, Johnson rifled a power play goal from just inside the blue line to make it 2-0, and off that face-off, Keagan Braun got the puck to Carson Hughes on the short side of the net. Hughes put it home, and it was 3-0, halfway through the first period.

The onslaught was only just beginning. Cale Carter scored on a breakaway later in the period, and Hughes scored his second goal of the game on a partial breakaway, and it was a 5-0 game.

The Flivvers pulled Scullon from the net and brought in freshman Alex Hemgren. It didn't help, though, as the Eskymos scored four more times to end the game on the mercy rule running clock. Johnson scored his second goal of the game to make it 6-0. Senior defenseman Alex Schawalbach snuck in for a goal to make it 7-0, and Carter scored his second to make it 8-0.

Owen LaBonte closed the scoring with a goal in the final minute of the second period.

Escanaba scored its nine goals on 24 shots, outshooting the Flivvers, 24-7.