Staff photo by Travis Rosenau New Ulm’s Brody Nordby skates in with the puck on a breakaway in the first period of Thursday’s Section 3A quarterfinal game with Marshall at the New Ulm Civic Center.

NEW ULM — During the regular season, the play of your special teams can win or lose you a game.

In the playoffs, it can keep your season going or have you putting your skates away for the year.

Third-seeded New Ulm scored two power-play goals late in the third period to break a 3-3 tie and went on to top sixth-seeded Marshall 5-3 Thursday night in a Section 3A quarterfinal game at the New Ulm Civic Center.

Carson Uecker had two goals for the Eagles, with Brecken Neuman, Talan Helget and Ian Brudelie adding goals.

Brudelie had two assists with Neuman and Brody Nordby getting helpers.

Easton Larson, Owen Renslow and Blake Grimsley had goals for Marshall. Jacob Allen and Jacob Johnson had assists for the Tigers.

Graham Glaser stopped 24 of 27 Tigers shots.

Marshall netminder Nathan Lenz stopped 21 of 26 shots for the Tigers, who end their season at 11-15.

New Ulm, now 12-12-2, faces No. 2-seeded Mankato West Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Don Roberts Ice Arena at Gustavus Adolphus College.

“Our penalty kill was very effective tonight,” New Ulm head coach Ryan Neuman said. “They had one power-play goal and I do not know how many power plays they had — I know they had a lot. They had two 5-on-3s in the game and we killed them. Coming into the game I talked to the guys about special teams battle and how we need to win those.”

Twice the Eagles penalty kill disposed of Tigers’ two-man advantages.

The first came late in the first period after Larson gave the Tigers an early 1-0 lead.

The second happened early in the third period with the score tied at 3-3.

While the Tigers did not take advantage of their two-man advantage, the Eagles did.

Uecker’s second goal of the game — a 5-on-3 power play goal at the 9:37 mark for a 4-3 lead.

Now on a 5-on-4 power play, Brecken Neuman added another power-play goal 20 seconds later for a 5-3 New Ulm lead.

Brecken Neuman said that the Eagles’ ability to stop two 5-on-3s in the game was massive.

“We knew that if we killed them off and they could not score on the power play that we would be able to get back to score on them,” he said. “My goal was probably my biggest goal of the year for me — a lot of adrenaline and I am just happy that we can keep on in the section.”

New Ulm had fell behind 2-1 in the second before Brudelie tied the game at 2-2 with an unassisted goal.

“We battled back — we knew we were better,” Brudelie said. “We stuck to it as a team and battled right back.”