It’ll be top-seeded Edina and second-seeded Chanhassen playing for the Class 2A boys’ hockey championship Saturday night.

Bobby Cowan had two goals and an assist and the Hornets beat Grand Rapids 5-2 late Friday at the Xcel Energy Center. Ten Edina players had points, including two assists each for Barrett Dexheimer, Sam Peckham and Mason West.

Seeking the school’s 11th state championship — its first since 2019 and fifth since 2010 — Edina (25-4-1) gets the Storm (25-5-0), a first-time tournament participant that beat Cretin-Derham Hall 6-1 to advance to the title game.

Up 1-0 on a goal by future Gopher Jackson Nevers, the Hornets scored a trio of goals in less than three minutes late in the first period to take command.

John Halverson converted a feed from Caleb Pittsley before John Warpinski scored off a scramble from a point shot by Peckham 86 seconds later for a 3-0 lead. A long pass from Dexheimer sent Cowan in on a breakaway for another Hornet tally 82 seconds after that.

Cowan added his second goal 6:23 into the final period with a wrist shot from the right circle that went through traffic.

Kyler Miller and Jacob Garski scored three minutes apart later in the final frame for Grand Rapids.

In the tournament for the first time since winning the 2017 title, fifth-seeded Grand Rapids (18-12-0) looked to maintain the excitement generated by its thrilling quarterfinal victory. Nathan Garski’s power-play goal with 1.6 seconds remaining was the difference in a 2-1 win over White Bear Lake on Thursday night.

But the Thunderhawks struggled to maintain any consistent offensive pressure. Grand Rapids was outshot 31-18.

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