The Humboldt Broncos solidified a fifth place finish in dramatic fashion Saturday night winning in overtime 3-2 against the Notre Dame Hounds picking up the extra point sending them to a seventh place landing.

After failing to lock the fifth seed up Friday in a rotten affair in Wilcox the green and gold responded with 63:53 of playoff type hockey to earn the much deserved two points.

"Friday night we came out flat footed, nobody was ready to go," overtime hero Luke Kempf said after Saturday's eighth and final meeting of the year between the Olympic Building Division foes. "We just weren't ready to go, we thought we had the game in the bag even before it even started, tonight was definitely a lot better."

The Hounds, needed the win and a Bronco loss Tuesday to vault over them but they wanted at least that chance. Jacob Arsenault opened the scoring not even two minutes on a power-play silencing the 900 people attending the second last game of the regular season.

Fan favourite Trevor Posch needed just 55 seconds to get them back out of their seats, the 20 year-old Leduc product scored his 22nd of the season on a man advantage for Humboldt, Connor Swystun and Chris Van Os-Shaw each earned the assists.

The 1-1 draw would last until 3:05 of the second, Posch tapped a perfect Van Os-Shaw pass past Benjamin Patt making it 2-1 Humboldt. Logan Schatz picked up a point on Posch's 23rd.

The Hounds climbed back even again, Adam Dawe scored from the goal line on a 5-on-3 power-play knotting the contest at 2-2 with just under five to play in the middle frame.

The third was goalless forcing overtime that Kempf ended at the 3:53 mark with his eighth goal of the year. Tristian Elder set Kempf up on a 2-on-1 rush to win it.

"That's my first overtime shift ever," the 20 year-old Sherwood Park product laughed. "I've got to thank Darcy(Haugan) for that one."

The 3-on-3 fourth period was frantic, ND had four shots of their own including a couple by Dawe but Garrett Mason stood tall making 33 saves for his 25th victory of the year.

Patt was just as good in the Hounds net, he absorbed 30 shots in the loss.

Humboldt's power-play connected once in three tries, the Hounds picked up both goals during power-plays. they had six opportunities plus two two man advantages.

The Broncos will conclude their regular season Tuesday at home against Melfort, face-off is 7:30. That's a big game for the back-to-back champions, they sit one point up on the Melville Millionaires for the final playoff spot, neither team helped themselves this weekend, Yorkton took both games of their home and home series with the Mils, Saturday it was a 2-1 decision, the Stangs lost 4-0 to the Hawks Saturday. Estevan edged Weyburn 3-2 in overtime, Flin Flon throttled LaRonge 7-1 and the Stars blanked Kindersley 5-0 in the other three contests.

Who the Broncos play in the first round is still up in the air, they will meet the team that doesn't win the Sher-Wood Division. The Hawks have a two point cushion over the Bombers now, they play Tuesday night, Flin Flon needs to win in regulation to overtake them. 

The Millionaires will face Estevan Tuesday, the Bruins will play the Terriers in round one in the 3 vs. 6 series.

The Survivor Series match-ups feature Kindersley against Weyburn and Notre Dame against either the Mils or Mustangs. The best of five survivor series will start March 10th, the first round on March 17th. Whoever Humboldt plays will have home ice advantage being the fourth seed.

You can hear more from Kempf below as well as both Assistant Coach Brayden Klimosko and Head Coach Darcy Haugan who joined Clark Stork on the post game show.