Norman Northstars forward Roger Tagoona busted out of a goal-less streak to help stop his team's five-game losing streak, scoring three times - including one with a Bobby Orr-style flying leap - as the Northstars got their sixth win of the season in an 8-3 rout of the Yellowhead Chiefs Nov. 7.

Mitchell Backhouse picked up his first win as a Northstar in the game, turning aside 15 shots as the home team badly outshot the Chiefs for the second game in a row, but this time with vastly different results.

In the first game of the Northstars' homestand, Yellowhead capitalized twice on the power play in the opening period to go into the intermission up 2-0 and kept pace the rest of the way to win 4-1 after scoring an empty-netter.

Tagoona was one of two Northstars to score in the first period on Saturday, along with Quentin Holmes, when the Northstars outshot the Chiefs 14-3 in the first 20 minutes. His second came just over five minutes into the middle frame, when he won a battle in the corner, skated out with the puck and jammed it past Yellowhead goaltender Braeden Wiley. Following a goal by Cody Zulyniak that made it 5-0, Tagoona completed his hat trick, finishing off a passing play with Quentin Holmes and Dylan Hykawy with the Northstars shorthanded, soaring through the air after the puck crossed the goal line as his feet got caught up in Wiley's pads. That goal restored the five-goal lead after a giveaway in the Northstars' slot led to Yellowhead's first goal 63 seconds earlier.

Hykawy and Holmes each finished the game with three assists.

Justin Valentino had the first goal of the second period, knocking a rebound in 3:59 after resuming play. Jaron Campbell scored with the teams playing 4-on-4 to make the score 7-1 before the second intermission.

Yellowhead scored twice in the first half of the final frame before Dillan McCombie finished off scoring for the Northstars with a goal in the last four minutes.

Shots in the game were 44-18 in favour of the Northstars.

The shots were similarly lopsided the previous night, as the Northstars fired 40 shots on Mathew Wozney, but Holmes had the only one that beat the goaltender, scored on a second period power play with the home team already trailing 3-0.

The Northstars got one past the Chiefs' netminder with 31 seconds left and goaltender Ryan Delorme off for the extra attacker, but the referee ruled it had been directed in with a high stick. Yellowhead put the puck in the open net off the ensuing face-off.

The Northstars head out on the road this weekend for games against the Winnipeg Wild, Winnipeg Thrashers and Interlake Lightning.