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Pats Begin Final Overnight Trip in Lethbridge

March 10, 2023 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
Regina Pats News Release


Regina, Sask. - The Regina Pats begin their final overnight road trip of the season when they take on the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Friday inside the Enmax Centre.

The Pats have dropped their last two games as they look to bounce back tonight in a crucial "four point" game against the Hurricanes who they are chasing in the Eastern Conference standings, as the Canes' are five points up on the Pats for fifth. Meanwhile, the Medicine Hat Tigers (who the Pats play tomorrow) are four points back of Regina for sixth.

Regina is coming off a 3-2 loss to the Edmonton Oil Kings on Wednesday, capping off a five game homestand where the club went 3-2 on it. The Pats got goals from Tye Spencer and Connor Bedard who scored his 60th goal of the season. Kelton Pyne made 27 saves in the loss. The Pats went 0-3 on the power play and 3-4 on the penalty kill. The final shots were 33-30 for Regina.

The Lethbridge Hurricanes on the other hand are coming off a 2-1 loss on Wednesday to the Red Deer Rebels, as they have now lost their last two contests as they previously fell 5-1 to the Saskatoon Blades on Saturday. The Hurricanes only goal came from Chase Pauls with under 15 seconds to play in the third. Bryan Thomson made 34 saves in the loss. The final shots were 36-21 for Red Deer. Both teams went 0-4 on their power plays.

Match Up

Regina Lethbridge

Team Record 31-26-2-1 - 65 points 32-23-3-3 - 70 points

Division Ranking 4th East 2nd Central

Conference Ranking 6th Eastern 5th Eastern

League Ranking 10th 8th

Past 10 Games 6-4-0-0 4-5-0-1

Streak 0-2-0-0 0-2-0-0

Last Game 3-2 L vs Edmonton (Mar 8 2023) Final 2-1 L @ Red Deer (Mar 8 2023) Final

Home Record 17-13-0-1 18-9-1-2

Away Record 14-13-2-0 14-14-2-1

GF 231 177

GA 240 179

PP (Overall) (60/220) 27.3% (47/246) 19.1%

PP (Home) (30/109) 27.5% (20/123) 16.3%

PP (Away) (30/111) 27.0% (27/123) 22.0%

PK (Overall) (59/252) 76.6% (49/242) 79.8%

PK (Home) (22/116) 81.0% (18/121) 85.1%

PK (Away) (37/136) 72.8% (31/121) 74.4%

PP vs. Opp. (1/5) 20% (0/9) 0%

PK vs. Opp. (0/9) 100% (1/5) 80%

Leading Rookie Suzdalev (36-42-78) Marques (6-10-16)

Most PIM Vaughan - 71 Arntsen - 75

Team PIM/GM 12.7/Game 11.1/Game

Leading Scorers Bedard (60-64-124) Shepard (19-32-51)

Suzdalev (36-42-78) Jones (19-28-47)

Howe (30-45-75) Wormald (21-21-42)

Svozil (10-62-72) Laventure (20-22-42)

Valis (20-26-46) Zimmer (16-24-40)

Last 5 Games 3-2 L vs Edmonton (Mar 8 2023) Final 2-1 L @ Red Deer (Mar 8 2023) Final

5-2 L vs Saskatoon (Mar 5 2023) Final 5-1 L @ Saskatoon (Mar 4 2023) Final

6-5 W vs Red Deer (Mar 4 2023) Final OT 3-0 W @ Prince Albert (Mar 3 2023) Final

5-3 W vs Winnipeg (Mar 3 2023) Final 4-3 W @ Calgary (Feb 25 2023) Final

6-3 W vs Brandon (Feb 25 2023) Final 6-2 L vs Kamloops (Feb 24 2023) Final

Leading After 1st 18-6-1-0 17-3-0-0

Leading After 2nd 23-2-1-0 29-2-1-0

Tied After 1st 7-3-0-0 12-8-2-0

Tied After 2nd 4-7-0-0 3-5-2-1

Trailing After 1st 6-17-1-1 3-12-1-3

Trailing After 2nd 4-17-1-1 0-16-0-2

Out Shooting Opponents 12-8-0-1 12-8-1-3

Out Shot by Opponents 17-18-2-0 20-12-2-0

1 Goal Games 12-5-2-1 15-8-3-3

2 Goal Games 3-3-0-0 7-5-0-0

3 Goal Games 9-8-0-0 7-3-0-0

WHERE TO WATCH/LISTEN

Radio: 620ckrm.com

Stream: WHL Live

HEAD-TO-HEAD (2-0-0-1)

The Pats are 90-73-4-8-1 vs. the Hurricanes, all-time, going 52-25-4-6-1 at home & 38-48-0-2-0 on the road.

Date Home Away Time Result

October 16th Regina Lethbridge 4:00 p.m. MDT SOL, 4-3

February 3rd Lethbridge Regina 7:00 p.m. MST W, 3-2

February 20th Regina Lethbridge 2:00 p.m. CST W, 4-2

March 10th Lethbridge Regina 7:00 p.m. MST

It's the second of four meetings this season between the Pats and Hurricanes. Last year, the Pats played the Hurricanes six times, going 3-2-1-0 in the season series (2-1 on road / 1-1-1 at home. The Pats are 6-9-2 against the Hurricanes over their last 17 meetings. The Pats went 0-4 in the 2019-20 season series. Are also 4-4 over the last eight road games in Lethbridge and 3-6-2 over their last 11 home matchups.

INDIVIDUAL HEAD-TO-HEAD STATS

Lethbridge Hurricanes

# Name GP G A PTS PIM +/-

17 Jett Jones 3 2 0 2 0 -2

22 Hayden Smith 3 2 0 2 0 1

19 Brayden Edwards 3 1 1 2 0 1

18 Logan Wormald 3 1 1 2 0 1

21 Tyson Zimmer 3 0 2 2 0 -4

28 Tyson Laventure 3 1 0 1 0 -1

# Name GP W L OTL SL Mins GA GAA SV%

30 Bryan Thomson 1 0 1 0 0 58:48 3 3.06 0.880

35 Harrison Meneghin 2 1 1 0 0 122:47 7 3.42 0.879

Regina Pats

# Name GP G A PTS PIM +/-

3 Luke Bateman 3 1 2 3 0 3

11 Stanislav Svozil 3 1 2 3 2 -1

98 Connor Bedard 3 0 3 3 0 -2

29 Tanner Brown (total) 4 0 3 3 2 0

19 Tye Spencer 2 0 3 3 0 1

43 Tanner Howe 3 2 0 2 2 -2

# Name GP W L OTL SL Mins GA GAA SV%

33 Drew Sim 2 2 0 0 0 118:50 4 2.02 0.938

30 X Matthew Kieper 1 0 0 0 1 65:00 3 2.77 0.864

2021-22 SEASON SERIES

11/13 vs. LET - L, 6-1

11/24 at LET - OTW, 3-2

2/4 at LET - L, 5-4

3/5 vs. LET - OTL, 5-4

3/11 vs. LET - W, 4-3

3/16 at LET - W, 6-4

HEADLINES

On Wednesday March 8, Connor Bedard scored his 60th goal of the season, doing so in his 49th game, becoming the first player since Dale Derkatch to score 60 goals in 50 or fewer games who accomplished that feat on Feb. 11, 1983. Bedard is now the fifth fastest player to reach 60 goals and the first Pats player to hit the mark since Ronald Petrovický in 1997-98.

The Pats are 13-7-1 over their last 21 games since Jan. 8, defeating Calgary twice (6-2 & 6-5), Saskatoon (7-4), Portland (4-3), Swift Current (5-2), Lethbridge twice (3-2 & 4-2), Moose Jaw (8-4), Medicine Hat (6-3), Brandon twice (4-3 & 6-3), Winnipeg (5-3) & Red Deer (6-5) which comes following a three game skid from Jan. 1 - Jan. 6. During that time, they have outscored their opp. 95-to-84 (+11 goal diff).

The Pats had their season-high six game winning-streak end on Sunday, March 5, and have dropped their last two games since. Now winners of six of their last eight games, they have outscored opponents 35-to-28 (+7) over that span.

Regina Pats Head Coach and GM John Paddock picked up his 200th win as coach of the Pats on Feb. 11. Sitting on 206 wins, he has passed Frank Mario (202) for third on the all-time wins list and is now tied Murray Armstrong (206) for second.

BY THE NUMBERS

124: Number of points (60G-64A) in 49 games for captain Connor Bedard leads the WHL...his 60 goals are tops and 64 assists are first...since having his 35-game point-streak end on Feb. 3, he's recorded 34 points (16G-18A) over his last 12 games, with points in 11 of those.

36: Goals for Alexander Suzdalev leads all WHL rookies...he has points in 16 of his last 20 games (15G-16A-31PTS) as well as points six straight games (6G-4A) and goals four of his last five (6G)...his 78 points are tied for eighth in the WHL.

60: Goals this season in just 49 games for Connor Bedard, as he becomes the first Regina Pats player to reach the 60 goal mark since Ronald Petrovicky (64, 1997-98)...he's the fifth fastest Regina Pats player to 60 goals, tying Dale Derkatch who last did so in 1983.

45: Number of points (5G-30A) in 20 games for Stanislav Svozil since coming back from the World Juniors on Jan. 13...the Czechia product is first amongst defencemen in assists with 62 and tied for first in points with 72...his 1.50 points/game is tied for first amongst all defencemen.

65: Number of goals (+1 in shootout) for the Pats over the past 15 games, with nine of the 15 games ending by two goals or less (9-5-1), all coming since Jan. 31...during that time, the Pats have received goals from 12 different players.

COMING UP

7:00 p.m., Saturday, March 11 - Regina Pats (31-26-2-1) at Medicine Hat Tigers (26-26-8-1)

7:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 15 - Brandon Wheat Kings (25-28-8-0) at Regina Pats (31-26-2-1)

7:00 p.m., Friday, March 17 - Moose Jaw Warriors (36-22-0-3) at Regina Pats (31-26-2-1)

7:00 p.m., Saturday, March 18 - Regina Pats (31-26-2-1) at Moose Jaw Warriors (36-22-0-3)

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