REGINA PATS - LOST AGAIN IN A SHOOT OUT

St. Albert - August 30, 2009

The Regina Pats and the Swift Current Broncos were hoping to get their first win in Game 6 of the Edmonton Oil Kings Pre-season Invitational Tournament presented by Elite Sportswear and Awards. It was Swift Current 8, Regina Pats 7 in a shoot out.

The Broncos score first on a breakaway. Mike Brown goes upstairs on Regina goaltender Derek Tendler. It doesn’t take Swift Current long to strike again. Andy Blanke drives the net, Jordan Peddle tips in his centering pass, and it is 2 – 0. Regina comes back to score less than a minute after that. Michal Poletin beats Bronco goalie Chad Ketting to make it 2 – 1. The Pats tie it up at 2 before the half way point of the frame. Jordan Weal goes in alone, dekes and sticks the back hand under the bar. The Broncos Brown gets another break away and is hooked going in. He gets a penalty shot, elects to shoot, but Tendler makes a pad save to keep the score 2 – 2.

Period two starts with five goals in just over seven minutes. Swift Current gets goals from Jordan Evans, Peddle with his second of the game, and Eric Doyle. Regina replies with markers from Tomas Hricina and Andrew Rieder. Add it all up, and the Broncos are up 5 – 4. Things settle down, until the Pats take back to back penalties. The Broncos Justin Dowling has a shot goes off a defenseman, and in, to make it 6 – 4. Regina gets it back to within one. Poletin feeds Graham Hood in the slot for the quick one timer. The period ends 6 – 5.

The Broncos get the two goal lead back in the third when Dane Muench finds Dillon Wagner alone in the slot. He whips one past Regina’s second goalie, Dawson Guhle. The Pats get back within one on a blast from the high slot from Matt Strueby, its 7 – 6. Regina pulls even when Poletin scores his second of the game with just over two minutes to play. The third period ends with the score tied seven all, and so does overtime. We have a shootout.

Swift Current goalie Alexandre Sirard is the hero stopping 2 of 3 Pat shooters. The Broncos win 8 – 7, after a 2 – 1 win in the shootout.

First Period

1. Swift Current - Brown ES, 4:20
2. Swift Current – Peddle (Blanke) ES, 6:17
3. Regina Pats – Poletin (Hood) ES, 6:53
4. Regina Pats – Weal ES, 9:38

Shots on Goal: Regina 12 - Swif Current - 9

Second Period:

5. Swift Current – Evans (Sullivan, Dowling) ES, 3:14
6. Swift Current – Peddle (Hoban) ES, 3:41
7. Regina – Hricina (Metz, Czibere) ES, 4:02
8. Swift Current – Doyle (Evans, Wagner) PP, 6:32
9. Regina – Rieder (Strueby, Stephenson) ES, 7:05
10. Swift Current – Dowling (Hewett, Molle) PP, 14:43
11. Regina – Hood (Poletin, Bell) ES, 17:57

Two Period Totals: Regina 21 - Swift Current 21

Third Period:

12. Swift Current – Wagner (Muench, Luhning) ES, 5:43
13. Regina – Strueby (Stephenson) ES 10:49
14. Regina – Poletin (Weal) ES, 17:45

Three Period Totals: Regina 30 - Swift Current 25

Overtime:

No Scoring

Final Shot Totals: Regina 34 - Swift Current 27

Regina – Tendler 9/14 Guhle 11/ 13
Swift Current – Ketting 15/19 Sirard 12/15

Shootout:

Swift Current – Hoban Goal, Dowling Goal, Doyle X
Regina – Poletin Goal, Weal X, Hricina X

Regina Pats have four more pre-season games: This Friday, September 4, at Brandon; following Wednesday, September 9, Brandon visits the Brandt Centre; Saturday, September 12, Saskatoon visits Brandt Centre and the following day, Regina Pats play at Prince Albert.