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Pats Host Wheat Kings on Indigenous Celebration Night

March 15, 2023 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
Regina Pats News Release


Regina, Sask. - The Regina Pats host the Brandon Wheat Kings inside the Brandt Centre on Indigenous Celebration Night, presented by FHQ Developments and Topa Contracting.

ABOUT TONIGHT

Regina Pats will be wearing the special-edition orange jerseys that they wore for warm-ups in February for the entire game tonight against the Brandon Wheat Kings, as part of their Indigenous Celebration Night. The game will showcase Indigenous Culture throughout the night and acknowledge the relationship we share with all Indigenous peoples in the Treaty Four Territory.

The orange jerseys are now up for auction, with 100% of net proceeds getting donated to the Orange Jersey Project. Following today's game, any winning bidders in attendance will receive their jersey directly from the players on the ice. Fans can place a bid at www.32acutions.com/PatsOrangeJerseyProject for their chance to win one of these unique jerseys. Bidding will close at 8 p.m. tonight.

LAST GAME

Just six games remain in the WHL calendar for the Pats with three more on home ice. The Pats are coming off a 7-0 loss on Saturday for their fourth straight loss (0-3-1-0) as they look to bounce back tonight at home against the Brandon Wheat Kings. It was the first time all season that Regina was blanked when both Connor Bedard and Stanislav Svozil were in the lineup.

The Tigers got goals from Andrew Basha (4G), Rhett Parsons Tomas Mrsic and Gavin McKenna (1G-1A), while Beckett Langkow made 17 saves for his first career shutout. Bogdans Hodass tallied three assists, and Oasiz Wiesblatt and Brendan Lee each grabbed two helpers, as the Tigers snapped their two game skid. The final shots were 40-17 for the Tigers. Both teams finished 0-3 on their respective power plays.

The Pats are still in sixth in the Eastern Conference standings coming into tonight's game in which they play the first of four games in five nights.

On the other side, the Brandon Wheat Kings are fighting for their playoff lives coming into today's contest, as they sit tied for eighth with Swift Current and Calgary with 60 points. Brandon is coming off a 4-1 loss to the Winnipeg ICE on Sunday after they took down Edmonton at home 10-2 on Saturday. The loss snapped their three game winning-streak.

MATCH UP

Brandon Regina

Team Record 26-29-8-0 - 60 points 31-27-3-1 - 66 points

Division Ranking 5th East 4th East

Conference Ranking 10th Eastern 6th Eastern

League Ranking 16th 10th

Past 10 Games 4-5-1-0 6-3-1-0

Streak 0-1-0-0 0-3-1-0

Last Game 4-1 L @ Winnipeg (Mar 12 2023) Final 7-0 L @ Medicine Hat (Mar 11 2023) Final

Home Record 12-15-5-0 17-13-0-1

Away Record 14-14-3-0 14-14-3-0

GF 199 235

GA 221 252

PP (Overall) (57/262) 21.8% (63/229) 27.5%

PP (Home) (31/128) 24.2% (30/109) 27.5%

PP (Away) (26/134) 19.4% (33/120) 27.5%

PK (Overall) (60/277) 78.3% (60/261) 77.0%

PK (Home) (35/132) 73.5% (22/116) 81.0%

PK (Away) (25/145) 82.8% (38/145) 73.8%

PP vs. Opp. (4/18) 22.2% (4/12) 33.3%

PK vs. Opp. (4/12) 66.7% (4/18) 77.8%

Leading Rookie McQueen (3-10-13) Suzdalev (36-42-78)

Most PIM Henry - 131 Vaughan - 78

Team PIM/GM 13.2/Game 12.8/Game

Leading Scorers Danielson (32-44-76) Bedard (61-64-125)

Ritchie (25-43-68) Suzdalev (36-42-78)

Hyland (26-21-47) Howe (31-45-76)

Anderson (15-32-47) Svozil (10-63-73)

Pasternak (14-24-38) Valis (20-27-47)

Last 5 Games 4-1 L @ Winnipeg (Mar 12 2023) Final 7-0 L @ Medicine Hat (Mar 11 2023) Final

10-2 W vs Edmonton (Mar 11 2023) Final 5-4 L @ Lethbridge (Mar 10 2023) Final OT

2-0 W vs Medicine Hat (Mar 8 2023) Final 3-2 L vs Edmonton (Mar 8 2023) Final

4-3 W @ Prince Albert (Mar 7 2023) Final 5-2 L vs Saskatoon (Mar 5 2023) Final

8-3 L vs Winnipeg (Mar 4 2023) Final 6-5 W vs Red Deer (Mar 4 2023) Final OT

Leading After 1st 15-6-1-0 18-6-2-0

Leading After 2nd 21-3-4-0 23-2-2-0

Tied After 1st 8-10-4-0 7-3-0-0

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

Trailing After 1st 3-13-3-0 6-18-1-1

Trailing After 2nd 1-23-2-0 4-18-1-1

Out Shooting Opponents 15-12-3-0 12-8-0-1

Out Shot by Opponents 11-15-4-0 17-19-3-0

1 Goal Games 10-5-8-0 12-5-3-1

2 Goal Games 8-9-0-0 3-3-0-0

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

WHERE TO WATCH/LISTEN

Radio: 620ckrm.com

Stream: WHL Live

HEAD TO HEAD (3-2-0-0)

The Pats are 206-225-21-12-6 vs. the Wheat Kings, all-time going 3-83-12-3-2 at home & 71-142-9-9-4 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 W, 4-3

February 25th Brandon Regina 7:00 p.m. CST W, 6-3

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

Today will mark the last of six meetings against the Wheat Kings this season, with the Pats leading the series 3-2. Last year, Brandon won the season series 5-2 as Regina went 1-3 at home and 1-2 on the road. During that season series, the Wheat Kings outscored the Pats 31-to-28. The Pats are 12-14-1-2 against Brandon since the 2018-19 season, with 14 of those 29 games being decided by one goal.

TEAM VS TEAM - INDIVIDUAL

Regina Pats

# Name GP G A PTS PIM +/-

91 Alexander Suzdalev 5 6 2 8 0 2

98 Connor Bedard 3 2 4 6 6 1

43 Tanner Howe 5 2 2 4 14 -3

11 Stanislav Svozil 3 2 2 4 0 5

34 Matteo Michels 5 1 2 3 2 3

52 Braxton Whitehead 5 0 3 3 0 1

13 Zack Stringer 4 1 1 2 4 1

40 Parker Berge 5 0 2 2 2 -4

29 Tanner Brown 4 0 2 2 2 2

55 Sam Oremba 5 0 2 2 0 1

10 Riley Ginnell 4 1 0 1 0 1

# 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

31 Kelton Pyne 2 1 0 0 0 70:39 4 3.40 0.913

33 Drew Sim 3 1 2 0 0 160:54 12 4.47 0.862

Brandon Wheat Kings

# Name GP G A PTS PIM +/-

29 Nate Danielson 5 3 3 6 0 2

15 Nolan Ritchie 5 2 4 6 2 2

74 Brett Hyland 3 3 2 5 0 4

5 Logen Hammett 5 1 3 4 2 1

14 Calder Anderson 4 0 4 4 0 0

13 Roger McQueen 5 0 4 4 2 0

21 Anthony Wilson 4 2 1 3 0 -1

71 Zakhar Polshakov 5 0 3 3 6 -1

8 Quinn Mantei 5 0 2 2 2 3

27 Luke Shipley 4 0 2 2 6 2

19 X Jake Chiasson 3 1 0 1 0 1

22 Evan Groening 5 1 0 1 0 -1

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

31 Carson Bjarnason 4 2 2 0 0 236:58 9 2.28 0.894

33 Nicholas Jones 1 0 1 0 0 59:47 5 5.02 0.821

HEADLINES

The Pats are 13-8-2 over their last 23 games since Jan. 8, which is when Connor Bedard returned from the World Juniors, 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)...during that time, they have outscored their opp. 99-to-96 (+3 goal diff).

The Pats had their season-high six game winning-streak end on Sunday, March 5, and have dropped their last four games since (0-3-1)....now winners of six of their last 10 games (7-2-1), they have been outscored by opponents 40-to-30 (-1) over that span.

Feb. 8, Connor Bedard scored his 60th goal in his 49th game, becoming 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.

BY THE NUMBERS

125: Points (61G-64A) in 51 games for captain Connor Bedard leads the WHL...his 60 goals are tops and 64 assists are tied for first...since having his 35-game point-streak end on Feb. 3, he's recorded 35 points (17G-18A) over his last 14 games, with points in 12 of those.

36: Goals for Alexander Suzdalev leads all WHL rookies...he has points in 16 of his last 22 games (15G-16A-31PTS) as well as points in six of his last nine games (6G-4A) and goals four of his last eight (6G)...his 78 points are tied for 12th in the WHL.

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

36: Number of points (5G-31A) in 22 games for Stanislav Svozil since coming back from the World Juniors on Jan. 13...the Czechia product is tied for first amongst defencemen in assists with 63 and is second in points with 73...his 1.46 points/game is second amongst all defencemen.

69: Number of goals (+1 in shootout) for the Pats over the past 17 games, with 10 of the 17 games ending by two goals or less (9-6-2), all coming since Jan. 31...during that time, the Pats have received goals from 12 different players. (avg 4.05 goals per game in that span).

COMING UP

7:00 p.m., Friday, March 17 - Moose Jaw Warriors (38-22-0-3) at Regina Pats (31-27-3-1)

7:00 p.m., Saturday, March 18 - Regina Pats (31-27-3-1) at Moose Jaw Warriors (38-22-0-3)

4:00 p.m., Sunday, March 19 - Regina Pats (31-27-3-1) at Saskatoon Blades (44-14-4-1)

7:00 p.m., Friday, March 24 - Regina Pats (31-27-3-1) at Saskatoon Blades (44-14-4-1)

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