The Kindersley Klippers caused jaws to drop all over the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League Wednesday night with a 8-1 thumping of the three-time defending champion Humboldt Broncos.

The win moves the Klippers to 5-2 on the season, good for second place in the Sherwood Conference and the second-best points percentage in the league. Humboldt, which is struggling in the early going after losing most members of last year’s national runner-up, falls to 4-5-0-1.

The Klippers got goals from seven different players, with Braeden Adamyk the only one to score twice. Taylor Duzan, Andrew Dommett, Ryan Benn, Beau Taylor, Jordan Braid and Steven Turner also scored.

“I think for the most part, we’ve got four lines that are really coming together,” said Adamyk, whose goals both came in the third period. “We’ve got our top two lines that are scoring and it helps when you get a couple goals chipped in by the third and fourth line guys. Everybody’s scoring, everybody’s having fun.”

Josh Thorimbert turned in another strong performance in goal, stopping 25 of 26 shots two days shy of his 17th birthday. It was the fourth straight win for the rookie standout.

Duzan, on a deflection of a Steven Turner point shot, and Spencer Braaten, on a high corner shot from in tight, traded power play markers in the first period. The two players were later involved in an ugly incident in the third period.

The Klippers broke things open with a four-goal explosion in the second half of the second period. Dommett gave Kindersley the lead at 12:45, again on the man advantage, banging home a loose puck in the slot.

Only 49 seconds later, Benn converted his own rebound past Ryan Campbell’s right pad. About five minutes after that, Taylor executed a beautiful between-the-legs tip with his back to Campbell, and Braid topped off the period by deking the goaltender out of his socks with 57.1 seconds to go.

Adamyk opened the third period scoring with a gift goal. With the Klippers on the penalty kill, the puck was cleared to Broncos goalie Andrew Bodnarchuk, who had come in to start the frame. Adamyk had just come off the bench and pressured Bodnarchuk, who had the puck on his stick in the slot. The netminder handed Adamyk the puck on a platter and he one-timed it five-hole.

“Coming off the bench, I said to Dommett, ‘I’m gonna get a breakaway here,’” said Adamyk. “We talked about pressuring them down low on the penalty kill and making them turn it over. I got in there quick and I think Bodnarchuk didn’t really know what I was going to do and he just left the puck there for me and I slid it underneath him.”

At 8:41, Braaten levelled Duzan with a nasty elbow just inside the Humboldt blueline. Duzan laid motionless on the ice for about two minutes before making his way to the bench and returning later in the period. Braaten was assessed a five-minute major and game misconduct.

Just 28 seconds into the power play, Turner made it 7-1 on a blast from the point.

Adamyk capped the scoring summary with 3:19 remaining on a deflection of a Justin Perreaux point shot.

“Perreaux hit me in the foot in the pre-game skate, but then he hit my stick tonight,” Adamyk laughed.

Klippers head coach Larry Wintoneak saw a number of positives from the game, aside from the obvious satisfaction of annihilating the league’s top team three years running and the same club that snatched a league championship away from Kindersley in 2007.

“It’s good to see our young guys get involved and gain some confidence,” said Wintoneak. “I think our power play was effective again tonight and we got a short-handed goal. We had a little bit of a lull there in the second period right off the hop, but we recovered from that and continued to play our game. I thought we really moved the puck well, especially in the first period.

“Our D is maybe a little bit underrated, but as a collective group of seven guys we feel we move the puck maybe the best in the league so far, that I’ve seen.”

Wintoneak said it’s too early in the season to celebrate the win too much, though the early start is encouraging. The Klippers were ranked second in the SJHL power rankings released Friday.