The Regina Pats took on the Medicine Hat Tigers tonight, a game in which the Pats ended up winning, thank god! This game was arguably more important than any other thus far. As I am sure everyone knows, the trade deadline is tomorrow! The Pats management, aka Brent Parker was using this game to see if the Pats can truly contend in the standings. I hope the answer he got was "YES!".
The Pats fell behind by one early, but a goal by Jordan Eberle set the score even at 1-1 in the final seconds of the first. Multiple goals were traded in the second with the Pats going into the intermission up 4-3. The final frame saw yet again, goals being traded until the final score at the end of regulation read 5-5. Overtime, yet again, solved nothing so onto the shootout we went. Now, keep in mind the Pats are without Ketlo and Guhle so in goal for the Pats was Martyniuk (tri-cities former back up goalie). The shootout went for 5 rounds when finally Weal put one away for the Pats and Martyniuk made a final save to secure the 2 points, and hopefully 2 certain players!!
Scoring for the Pats were: Jordan Eberle, Strueby, Weal, Ashton, Teubert
Scoring for the Tigers were: Mackay, Gal, Isherwood, King, Kessy
The Tigers are one of the top teams in the division, and we knocked them off, with a rookie goal tender none-the-less. I sincerely hope that this proves to BP that we are a good group and can crawl out of this hole we are currently stuck in. I believe that when BP made the trade to acquire Ashton and Orfino we solidified ourselves as buyers not sellers. The thought of rebuilding the team went out the window with that trade as we gave up many of our young porspects and draft picks. As of now, I just hope were keepers. It is clear that Jordan and Colten want to stay, they have been here since they were 15 for gods sake! All I have to say is that I hope that by 3 O'clock tomorrow Jordan and Colten will still be Regina Pats!!!
The Pats next action is Wednesday night against the buffed-up Brandon Wheat Kings. Good Luck Boys!
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