The Storm won the shots-on-goal battle in this period as well, recording 10 shots to the Stampede’s six. The third period was the most action-packed, featuring two goals from Sioux Falls.

One of the most desperate stampedes of cattle ever witnessed by a Texas cowboy, says Rev. J.B. Cranfil of Waco, occurred in 1876 on the prairie in the centre of which now stands the town of McGregor.