That's exactly what Maack did, beating Knights goalie Blake Marhula to give the Raiders their second consecutive Schwan's Cup title and move their season record to 6-3-1. Last season Hudson, the two-time defending state champ in Wisconsin, won the championship in the Bronze division.

"We're always trying to improve our schedule," Raiders coach Brooks Lockwood said. "As a Wisconsin team, you always want to come over the river and play the best competition possible."

Meanwhile, the Knights lost a shootout in the Schwan's Cup for the third time.

"And two of those [shootout losses] came in the championship [round]," St. Michael-Albertville coach Jerremiah Johnson said. "I was thinking maybe today would be the day we would break that streak."

The last time the Knights lost a Schwan’s Cup shootout was during the 2016-17 season, when they fell to Breck in that tourney’s Silver Division finale.

Tuesday’s match ended with a thrilling finish in which Hudson took three one-goal leads, only to see the Knights tie the game each time.

The Raiders' Sam Ross scored the only goal of the opening period, finding the back of the net with a power-play marker with 2 minutes, 14 seconds remaining.

Adam Flammang tied the game for St. Michael-Albertville at the 5:11 mark of the second period, but Hudson retook the lead on Cole Danielson's goal off a rebound at 8:33. Flammang tied it again at 12:24, firing a rebound past Cohen for his second goal of the game.

"They have two kids who can fly [in Flammang and Swenson]," Lockwood said. "We allowed them to do a lot in the neutral zone, and that didn't help us."

But a nifty wrister by Payton Hanson with just 1 minute, 33 seconds left gave the Raiders a 3-2 lead through two periods.

In the third period, St. Michael-Albertville again tied the game when Nick LaMere scored at 7:50.

The game remained tied despite a wide-open overtime session that saw a number of odd-man rushes and several dazzling saves by both Cohen and Marhula, who stopped 29 shots.

That set the stage for the heroics of Cohen and Maack.

"It's great to come to this tournament and represent Wisconsin," Cohen said. "Playing in a tournament with all Minnesota teams, our opponents like to doubt us and say we're not as good. So we like to show them different."

With what’s technically a tie, St. Michael-Albertville, which advanced to the Class 2A state tournament last season, sits at 7-3-1 this season.

"That's a good team over there, and I thought we played them pretty evenly," Johnson said. "We graduated 13 seniors from our state tournament team, and we basically had four guys returning, so we are young.

"I thought it was too bad one team had to go home as the loser in a shootout."