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Pats Host Blades on Wednesday

March 30, 2022 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
Regina Pats News Release


Regina, Sask. - The Regina Pats (23-31-3-2) continue their homestand when they take on the Saskatoon Blades (34-23-3-1) on Wednesday at 7:00 p.m., inside the Brandt Centre.

The Pats are coming off a 5-2 loss to the Brandon Wheat Kings on Saturday at the Brandt Centre, extending their losing-streak to four straight games. Regina opened the scoring with an early power play goal, but it was the Wheat Kings scoring three unanswered goals in the final two minutes of the first that proved to be the difference.

Zack Stringer and Connor Bedard scored for the Pats, with Bedard scoring his 44th of the season, which is now one shy of tying Jeff Friesen's Pats 16-year-old record for goals in a season with 45. The Pats went 2-for-3 on the power play and 2-for-2 on the penalty kill. The final shots were 28-26 for the Pats.

For the Saskatoon Blades, they are coming off a 7-0 loss to the Moose Jaw Warriors on Saturday at Mosaic Place, as they were shutout for the seventh time this season. They have now dropped five of their last seven games, having been outscored 25-to-13 during that time. The Blades clinched a playoff berth on Friday after defeating the Pats 3-1. They are currently fifth in the Eastern Conference with 72 points, with seven games remaining on their schedule.

Goaltender Nolan Maier is three wins away from capturing the WHL's all-time wins record with 121. Forward Kyle Crnkovic is third in the WHL in scoring with 88 points, while fourth in assists (53) and tied for ninth in goals (35).

MATCH UP

Saskatoon

Regina

Team Record 34-23-3-1 - 72 points 23-31-3-2 - 51 points

Division Ranking 3rd East 6th East

Conference Ranking 5th Eastern 11th Eastern

League Ranking 10th 17th

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

Streak 0-1-0-0 0-4-0-0

Last Game 7-0 L @ Moose Jaw (Mar 26 2022) Final 5-2 L vs Brandon (Mar 26 2022) Final

Home Record 18-9-2-1 15-13-1-1

Away Record 16-14-1-0 8-18-2-1

GF 203 211

GA 204 236

PP (Overall) (66/254) 26.0% (60/232) 25.9%

PP (Home) (33/128) 25.8% (36/122) 29.5%

PP (Away) (33/126) 26.2% (24/110) 21.8%

PK (Overall) (42/206) 79.6% (71/249) 71.5%

PK (Home) (21/96) 78.1% (35/117) 70.1%

PK (Away) (21/110) 80.9% (36/132) 72.7%

PP vs. Opp. (8/24) 33.3% (2/11) 18.2%

PK vs. Opp. (2/11) 81.8% (8/24) 66.7%

Leading Rookie Sidorov (18-11-29) Howe (25-36-61)

Most PIM Rhinehart - 84 Evans - 91

Team PIM/GM 8.9/Game 13.3/Game

Leading Scorers Crnkovic (35-53-88) Bedard (44-40-84)

Robins (32-42-74) Howe (25-36-61)

Lisowsky (32-23-55) Evans (13-45-58)

De La Gorgendiere (4-41-45) Dubinsky (18-24-42)

Wiens (19-22-41) Svozil (10-30-40)

Last 5 Games 7-0 L @ Moose Jaw (Mar 26 2022) Final 5-2 L vs Brandon (Mar 26 2022) Final

3-1 W vs Regina (Mar 25 2022) Final 3-1 L @ Saskatoon (Mar 25 2022) Final

4-2 L vs Winnipeg (Mar 23 2022) Final 5-3 L @ Swift Current (Mar 22 2022) Final

4-1 L @ Prince Albert (Mar 19 2022) Final 10-4 L @ Moose Jaw (Mar 19 2022) Final

5-3 W @ Edmonton (Mar 16 2022) Final 6-4 W @ Lethbridge (Mar 16 2022) Final

Leading After 1st 22-2-1-1 13-3-2-0

Leading After 2nd 24-1-2-1 20-1-1-1

Tied After 1st 9-8-1-0 8-8-0-0

Tied After 2nd 6-5-1-0 2-6-1-0

Trailing After 1st 3-13-1-0 2-20-1-2

Trailing After 2nd 4-17-0-0 1-24-1-1

Out Shooting Opponents 12-5-1-0 15-14-2-2

Out Shot by Opponents 20-17-1-1 8-14-1-0

1 Goal Games 9-3-3-1 8-8-3-2

2 Goal Games 9-3-0-0 5-9-0-0

3 Goal Games 8-9-0-0 4-10-0-0

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WHERE TO WATCH/LISTEN

Radio: 620ckrm.com

Stream: WHL Live

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2021-22 HEAD TO HEAD (0-5)

This will mark the sixth of six meetings this season. The Pats are 206-211-27-12-6 vs. the Blades, all-time.

Date Away Home Time Result

October 22nd Saskatoon Regina 7:00 p.m. MDT L, 5-2

October 24th Regina Saskatoon 4:00 p.m. MDT L, 4-1

February 2nd Saskatoon Regina 7:00 p.m. CST L, 5-4

February 12th Regina Saskatoon 7:00 p.m. CST L, 6-2

March 25th Regina Saskatoon 7:00 p.m. CDT L, 3-1

March 30th Saskatoon Regina 7:00 p.m. CDT

The Pats trail the season series 5-0, having been outscored 23-to-10 this season. The Blades have won 11 of their last 12 meetings against the Pats since February 21st, 2020, with Regina's last win against Saskatoon on April 20, 2021, winning 4-2 in their final meeting.

REG VS. SAS (INDIVIDUAL)

Regina Pats

#NameGPGAPTSPIM+/-

98 Connor Bedard 5 4 1 5 0 -1

29 Logan Nijhoff 5 1 4 5 0 -1

18 Cole Dubinsky 5 4 0 4 2 -3

41 Ryker Evans 5 0 4 4 10 1

43 Tanner Howe 5 1 1 2 4 0

11 Stanislav Svozil 5 0 2 2 6 -3

#NameGPWLOTLSLMinsGAGAASV%

33 Drew Sim 2 0 1 0 0 74:36 4 3.22 0.925

70 Spencer Welke 1 0 1 0 0 40:00 3 4.50 0.813

30 Matthew Kieper 3 0 3 0 0 160:45 13 4.85 0.833

31 X Kelton Pyne 1 0 0 0 0 18:42 2 6.42 0.846

Saskatoon Blades

#NameGPGAPTSPIM+/-

16 Kyle Crnkovic 5 3 4 7 0 1

8 Brandon Lisowsky 5 2 5 7 4 3

5 Aidan De La Gorgendiere 5 0 7 7 2 1

19 Egor Sidorov 5 6 0 6 2 2

11 Tristen Robins 5 3 3 6 8 2

9 Jayden Wiens 5 3 2 5 0 3

55 Marek Schneider 4 1 2 3 5 5

38 Trevor Wong 4 1 2 3 6 1

#NameGPWLOTLSLMinsGAGAASV%

33 Ethan Chadwick 1 1 0 0 0 60:00 1 1.00 0.958

73 Nolan Maier 4 4 0 0 0 240:00 9 2.25 0.929

HEADLINES

For the first time in 37 years (1984-85), six WHL 16-year-olds have eclipsed the 50-point mark in a single season, as Connor Bedard (REG, 84PTS), Tanner Howe (REG, 61PTS), Brayden Yager (MJ, 55PTS), Andrew Cristall (KEL, 54 PTS), Zachary Benson (WPG, 53PTS) and Riley Heidt (PG, 52PTS) all form the list of the top 2005-born players in the WHL.

Tanner Howe became the 44th 16-year-old in WHL history to reach the 60+ point mark (25G-36A-61PTS), and just the sixth in Pats history...he is just the fifth 16-year-old in Pats history to reach 25+ goals and seventh to hit 35+ assists.

Connor Bedard became the third Pat's 16-year-old in team history to reach 80+ points in a season, joining Jeff Friesen (1992-93, 83PTS) and Doug Wickenheiser (1977-78, 88PTS)...he is two goals away from breaking Friesen's Pats 16-year-old record of 45 goals.

BY THE NUMBERS

27: Amount of points (9G-18A) over Tanner Howe's last 20 games with points in 18 of those 20, and goals in eight of those games, while also being a +7 over that span...he is 2nd among all rookies in SH% (24.8%), 3rd in power play points (24) 3rd in points (61), & 4th in assists (36).

69: Points (33G-36A) over Connor Bedard's last 33 games since Nov. 28, with points in 31 of those 33 contests, after he had 15 points (10G-5A) in his first 20 games this season...he is 2nd in the WHL in shots (280), avgeraging 5.3 shots per game...his also 2nd in goals (44) & 5th in points (84).

22: Number of points for forward Cole Dubinsky over his last 20 games (8G-14A) since January 29th, with points in 14 of those 20 contests...he had his five game goal-streak snapped on Tuesday, and his six game point-streak end Friday (Last eight games: 5G-7A-12PTS).

3-2-1: Record over the Pats last six home games, outscoring their opponent 18-to-17 during that time...the Pats have won two of their last three home games and are 15-13-2 at home overall this season, having outscored their opponent 116-to-103 for a +13 home goal differential.

236: Total goals against this season is the fifth highest in the WHL, behind Tri-City (18-39-5), Medicine Hat (11-45-4), Spokane (19-37-5) & Victoria (22-35-6), averaging 4.0 goals against per-game which is the fifth highest...on the other hand, they've scored 211 goals, which is 10th.

145: Combined points between 16-year-old teammates Connor Bedard and Tanner Howe...the two have also combined for 69 goals this season, which 32.7% of the Pats goals this season...in fact, 47.4% of the Pats goals this season have been scored by players either 16 or 17 years old.

COMING UP

7:00 p.m., Friday, April 1st - Winnipeg ICE (48-9-5) at Regina Pats (23-31-5)

7:00 p.m., Saturday, April 2nd - Regina Pats (23-31-5) at Prince Albert Raiders (24-32-5)

7:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 5th - Regina Pats (23-31-5) at Brandon Wheat Kings (29-24-5)

7:00 p.m., Friday, April 8th - Regina Pats (23-31-5) at Swift Current Broncos (25-31-7)

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