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Pats Begin Home and Home with Brandon on the Road

February 24, 2023 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
Regina Pats News Release


Regina, Sask. - The Regina Pats begin a crucial home-and-home set with the Brandon Wheat Kings on Friday night inside Westoba Place at 7:00 p.m.

The Regina Pats have won their last two games as they are coming off a 6-3 win over the Medicine Hat Tigers on Wednesday night at the Brandt Centre. Connor Bedard tallied five points (1G-4A), Tanner Howe collected four points (2G-2A), Zack Stringer tallied three points (1G-2A) and Tye Spencer and Sam Oremba chipped in with goals for the Pats. Drew Sim made 26 saves for his 23rd win of the season. The final shots were 31-29 for the Pats. Regina finished 2-5 on the power play and 4-6 on the penalty kill.

The Pats are now in sole possession of sixth in the Eastern Conference standings with 57 points. It's the first time since December 16 that the Pats have sat as high as sixth in the conference. In the month of February, the Pats are 5-3 with a +3 goal differential, outscoring their opponents 37-34 over their last eight games.

Meanwhile, the Brandon Wheat Kings are coming off a 4-3 overtime loss to the Prince Albert Raiders on Monday on home ice. The Wheat Kings got goals from Nolan Ritchie, Dawson Pasternak and Luke Shipley, taking a 3-2 lead into the third before allowing the tying goal late and the overtime winner to former Pat' Sloan Stanick. The final shots were 33-26 for the Wheat Kings. The Wheat Kings went 2-3 on the penalty kill and 2-4 on the power play.

The Wheat Kings have now dropped three of their last four games (1-2-1-0), having been outscored 15-to-12 during that time. The Wheat Kings are 14-9-6 since making a coaching change on Nov. 28, with Marty Murray taking over as both Head Coach and GM. Brandon is currently three points out of a playoff spot while five points back of the Pats for sixth in the conference.

MATCH UP

Regina Brandon

Team Record 27-24-2-1 - 57 points 22-24-8-0 - 52 points

Division Ranking 4th East 5th East

Conference Ranking 6th Eastern 10th Eastern

League Ranking 11th 16th

Past 10 Games 5-4-1-0 3-4-3-0

Streak 2-0-0-0 1-0-1-0

Last Game 6-3 W vs Medicine Hat (Feb 22 2023) Final 4-3 L vs Prince Albert (Feb 20 2023) Final OT

Home Record 14-11-0-1 10-12-5-0

Away Record 13-13-2-0 12-12-3-0

GF 206 163

GA 218 185

PP (Overall) (57/207) 27.5% (49/224) 21.9%

PP (Home) (27/97) 27.8% (25/107) 23.4%

PP (Away) (30/110) 27.3% (24/117) 20.5%

PK (Overall) (56/232) 75.9% (51/251) 79.7%

PK (Home) (19/99) 80.8% (30/117) 74.4%

PK (Away) (37/133) 72.2% (21/134) 84.3%

PP vs. Opp. (2/9) 22.2% (3/10) 30%

PK vs. Opp. (3/10) 70% (2/9) 77.8%

Leading Rookie Suzdalev (30-39-69) McQueen (3-8-11)

Most PIM Vaughan - 71 Henry - 123

Team PIM/GM 12.9/Game 13.8/Game

Leading Scorers Bedard (52-59-111) Danielson (26-40-66)

Suzdalev (30-39-69) Ritchie (20-38-58)

Howe (28-40-68) Hyland (26-21-47)

Svozil (7-53-60) Anderson (13-29-42)

Valis (18-25-43) Pasternak (11-19-30)

Last 5 Games 6-3 W vs Medicine Hat (Feb 22 2023) Final 4-3 L vs Prince Albert (Feb 20 2023) Final OT

4-2 W vs Lethbridge (Feb 20 2023) Final 3-1 W @ Swift Current (Feb 18 2023) Final

7-4 L vs Winnipeg (Feb 18 2023) Final 3-1 L @ Lethbridge (Feb 17 2023) Final

6-5 L @ Prince Albert (Feb 17 2023) Final 7-5 L vs Swift Current (Feb 14 2023) Final

8-4 W vs Moose Jaw (Feb 11 2023) Final 3-2 W vs Calgary (Feb 11 2023) Final

Leading After 1st 18-5-1-0 13-5-1-0

Leading After 2nd 21-2-1-0 17-3-4-0

Tied After 1st 5-3-0-0 7-8-4-0

Tied After 2nd 3-6-0-0 4-3-2-0

Trailing After 1st 4-16-1-1 2-11-3-0

Trailing After 2nd 3-16-1-1 1-18-2-0

Out Shooting Opponents 12-7-0-1 13-9-3-0

Out Shot by Opponents 13-17-2-0 9-13-4-0

1 Goal Games 10-4-2-1 9-4-8-0

2 Goal Games 2-3-0-0 7-9-0-0

3 Goal Games 8-7-0-0 3-5-0-0

WHERE TO WATCH/LISTEN

Radio: 620ckrm.com

Stream: WHL Live

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

The Pats are 204-225-21-12-6 vs. the Wheat Kings, all-time going 34-83-12-3-2 at home & 70-142-9-9-4 on the road.

Date Road Home Time Result

October 5th Regina Brandon 7:00 p.m. CDT W, 3-1

December 28th Brandon Regina 7:00 p.m. CST L, 4-0

January 4th Regina Brandon 7:00 p.m. CST L, 6-2

February 24th Regina Brandon 7:00 p.m. CST

February 25th Brandon Regina 7:00 p.m. CST

March 15th Brandon Regina 7:00 p.m. CDT

Today will mark the fourth of six meetings against the Wheat Kings this season, with Brandon leading the series 2-1. Last year, Brandon won the season series 5-2 as Regina went 1-3 at home and 1-2 on the road. During the season series, the Wheat Kings outscored the Pats 31-to-28. The Pats are 10-14-1-2 against Brandon since the 2018-19 season, with 13 of those 27 games being decided by one goal.

TEAM VS TEAM - INDIVIDUAL

Brandon Wheat Kings

# Name GP G A PTS PIM +/-

74 Brett Hyland 3 3 2 5 0 4

14 Calder Anderson 2 0 4 4 0 2

15 Nolan Ritchie 3 0 4 4 0 2

29 Nate Danielson 3 1 2 3 0 2

5 Logen Hammett 3 1 2 3 0 1

21 Anthony Wilson 2 2 0 2 0 1

13 Roger McQueen 3 0 2 2 2 1

71 Zakhar Polshakov 3 0 2 2 4 0

27 Luke Shipley 2 0 2 2 2 3

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

31 Carson Bjarnason 3 2 1 0 0 178:18 5 1.68 0.924

Regina Pats

# Name GP G A PTS PIM +/-

91 Alexander Suzdalev 3 2 0 2 0 -3

43 Tanner Howe 3 1 1 2 6 -3

98 Connor Bedard 1 0 2 2 2 0

10 Riley Ginnell 2 1 0 1 0 1

13 Zack Stringer 2 1 0 1 2 -1

40 Parker Berge 3 0 1 1 0 -2

29 Tanner Brown 2 0 1 1 2 -2

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

30 X Matthew Kieper 2 1 0 0 0 68:27 1 0.88 0.982

33 Drew Sim 2 0 2 0 0 100:54 9 5.35 0.775

31 Kelton Pyne 1 0 0 0 0 10:39 1 5.63 0.875

HEADLINES

The Pats are 9-5-1 over their last 15 games since Jan. 8, defeating the Calgary Hitmen twice (6-2 & 6-5), Saskatoon Blades (7-4), Portland Winterhawks (4-3), Swift Current Broncos (5-2), Lethbridge Hurricanes twice (3-2 & 4-2), Moose Jaw Warriors (8-4) and Medicine Hat Tigers (6-3), which comes following a three game skid from Jan. 1 - Jan. 6...during that time, they have outscored their opponents 70-to-62.

41 (+2 in shootout) number of goals for the Pats over the past nine games, with five of the last nine games ending by two goals or less (5-3-1), all coming since Jan. 31...during that time, the Pats have received goals from 11 different players over their last nine games.

Regina Pats Head Coach and GM John Paddock picked up his 200th win as coach of the Pats on Feb. 11...sitting on 202 wins, he is tied with Frank Mario (202) for third on the all-time wins list and is 4 wins away from tying Murray Armstrong (206) for second.

BY THE NUMBERS

110: Number of points (52G-58A) in 43 games for captain Connor Bedard leads the WHL...his 52 goals are first, while his 58 assists are also first...since having his 35 game point-streak come to an end on Feb. 3, he's recorded 20 points (8G-12A) over his last six games.

30: Goals for Alexander Suzdalev leads all WHL rookies...he has points in 12 of his last 15 games (9G-13A-22PTS)...he is the first Pats rookie to score 30+ since Nick Henry (2016-17) & the first Pats import to score 30+ since Petr Kalus had 36 (2005-06).

16: Points (6G-10A) for Tanner Howe over his last 11 games, with points in in nine of those 11 contests...he is riding a six game point-streak (5G-5A)...he has also scored in four of his last five games...he has now set a new career-high in goals with 28 this season.

23: Number of points (2G-21A) in 14 games for Stanislav Svozil since coming back from the World Juniors on Jan. 13...the Czechia product is tied for second amongst defencemen in assists with 53 and third in points with 60...his 1.43 points/game is second amongst all defencemen.

5: Total points for Tye Spencer over his last five games since returning from injury, with points in four of those five games since Feb. 11...the Saskatoon, Sask. product missed 19 games with a lower body injury which was suffered on Dec. 10.

COMING UP

7:00 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 25 - Brandon Wheat Kings (22-24-7-0) at Regina Pats (27-23-2-1)

2:00 p.m., Friday, March 3 - Winnipeg ICE (45-7-1-0) at Regina Pats (27-24-2-1)

7:00 p.m., Saturday, March 4 - Red Deer Rebels (37-14-1-3) at Regina Pats (27-23-2-1)

4:00 p.m., Sunday, March 5 - Saskatoon Blades (37-13-3-1) at Regina Pats (27-23-2-1)

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