So much so that when the former Bismarck Bobcats found out they were traded to the Jamestown Rebels late Thursday morning, they made sure they would arrive in southern Chautauqua County in time for Friday night’s 7:05 p.m. puck drop against Wilkes-Barre Scranton.

The duo arrived in time, they were in the starting lineup and they made an immediate impact.

Korpi was one of five different goal scorers and Magnuson was one of nine players with at least one assist as the Rebels went 4 for 5 on the power play en route to a 5-1 North American Hockey League win over the Knights at Northwest Arena.

“I couldn’t believe that they made it,” Jamestown head coach and general manager Joe Coombs said. “I fully planned on them being here on Monday.”

Jamestown goaltender Noah West (30) and defenseman Renars Karkls (11) track a loose puck at the side of the net during Friday’s North American Hockey League game at Northwest Arena. P-J photo by Matt Spielman

Coombs added: “I talked to both kids and they said ‘Hey, we’re going to do everything we can to get there.'”

Both kids drove to Minneapolis. … They both stayed there and jumped on a 6 a.m. flight this morning to get here,” said Joe Coombs, Jamestown’s head coach and general manager. ” … I was really impressed, quite frankly, by that.”

The victory was the second straight for Jamestown, which rebounded from a 7-0 drubbing last Friday night with a 6-1 win Saturday, and has now scored 11 goals in its past two games.

“Regardless of how we score them, that’s 11 goals in two games. Going into tonight we had 78 goals on the year,” Coombs said. “We’ll take them any way we can get them.”

Rebels goaltender Noah West stopped 38 of 39 shots he faced last night for his eighth win in 27 games this season. Despite his 8-17-0-0 record, the Robert Morris University commit has a 2.70 goals against average and a .916 save percentage.

“I thought West was outstanding. We broke down in the defensive zone late and a guy had a breakaway with 10 guys in the zone,” Coombs said of West, who stopped all 12 shots he faced in the third period. ” … I thought he was really good.”

Jamestown went up 2-0 midway through the first period courtesy of a 5-minute power play after Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s Anthony Mastromonica was called for a boarding major.

Despite struggling through the first three minutes of the man-advantage, the Rebels were able to capitalize twice.

“Right at the start of the power play, I said to (assistant coach Josh) Brownie, ‘We’re going to need a third unit.’ … Five minutes is a lot of shifts for two units,” Coombs said. “The first goal was from a made-up unit.”

Seth Bergeron jumped down from his point position to bang home a cross-crease pass from Jordan Cormier for a 1-0 lead before captain Eric Olson made it 2-0 with 23 seconds remaining in the power play as he tapped home a rebound off a Janis Vizbelis shot.

“We got pucks to the net, No. 1,” Coombs said. ” … The second power-play goal on the five-minute major, it was just a puck to the net and a rebound. There was nothing secret about it.”

Mastromonica got the Knights on the scoreboard before the first period was over on a nice passing play from Jordan Strand, but that was the last time they would beat West on the evening.

Korpi got his first goal for the Rebels midway through the second period on the power play as he gathered a Valentino Passarelli rebound and beat Wilkes-Barre/Scranton goaltender Alex Contey to make it 3-1. Korpi had just four assists in 19 games with Bismarck before Thursday’s trade.

“They showed me that they want to play. … Our guy in Michigan really liked Korpi. A couple of guys that work for us in Minnesota really liked Magnuson,” Coombs said. ” … Both kids just haven’t played … we really couldn’t get a read. We just went with the trust of our guys who have scouted them.”

Passarelli scored a highlight-reel goal of his own off a faceoff late in the third period as he took the puck from Tyler German, stick-handled from the Knights goal line into the middle of the slot and then beat Contey with a high shot to his glove side to make it 4-1.

Renars Karkls capped the scoring with just under two minutes remaining as his point shot found its way through a screen for the Rebels’ fourth power-play goal of the night.

“This is new territory for us that we’re not happy about. We spent a lot of time getting to the top and it came crashing down pretty quick,” Coombs said. “We’re going to get back there. We think these young kids … will come back next year and be pretty big pieces to the puzzle.”

Now Jamestown will look for its first three-game winning streak of the season as the same teams face off again tonight at 7:05 p.m.

“We’re going to keep clawing and fighting,” Coombs said. ” … The four 20-year-olds that are here are staying. The rest are young kids that are going to learn to fight and battle.”

NOTES: Magnuson’s assist on the opening goal of the night was just his second of the season after having only one in 25 games with Bismarck. … Wilkes-Barre/Scranton was 0 for 4 on the power play. … Contey was playing in place of injured Knights goaltender Zach Stejskal. The University of Minnesota-Duluth commit is 15-9 with a 2.72 goals against average and a .921 save percentage on the season.