WHL Regina Pats

Pats Host WHL's Last Place Tigers

Published on February 23, 2022 under Western Hockey League (WHL)
Regina Pats News Release


Regina, Sask. - The Regina Pats (18-24-1-1) host the Medicine Hat Tigers (9-33-3-1) on Wednesday at 7:00 p.m., inside the Brandt Centre.

The Pats are coming off a 4-3 loss to the Swift Current Broncos on Monday at the Brandt Centre, in front of a season high crowd of 5,728. Connor Bedard (1G-1A), Tanner Howe (1G-1A) and Stanislav Svozil scored goals for the Pats in the loss. The Pats let a 2-1 lead slip away early, and gave up the game-winner in the third after tying it up. Final shots were 32-23 for the Pats, going 1-for-4 on the power play and 3-for-3 on the penalty kill.

The Pats have now dropped eight of their last 10 games (2-7-1). Logan Nijhoff left the game with an upper-body injury and did not return while Tye Spencer was a late scratch with an upper-body injury.

The Medicine Hat Tigers come in riding a seven game losing-streak, while sitting last in the WHL standings with just 22 points. They are coming off a 4-1 loss to the Prince Albert Raiders on Monday. They've scored the second least amount of goals in the WHL (119) and have given up the fourth most (205). They have a league worst 3-17-2-0 road record this season.

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Team Record 9-33-3-1 - 22 points 18-24-1-1 - 38 points

Division Ranking 6th Central 6th East

Conference Ranking 12th Eastern 11th Eastern

League Ranking 22nd 18th

Past 10 Games 2-8-0-0 2-7-1-0

Streak 0-7-0-0 0-1-0-0

Last Game 4-1 L vs Prince Albert (Feb 21 2022) Final 4-3 L vs Swift Current (Feb 21 2022) Final

Home Record 6-16-1-0 12-11-0-1

Away Record 3-17-2-1 6-13-1-0

GF 119 158

GA 205 170

PP (Overall) (30/161) 18.6% (46/178) 25.8%

PP (Home) (14/84) 16.7% (31/95) 32.6%

PP (Away) (16/77) 20.8% (15/83) 18.1%

PK (Overall) (51/195) 73.8% (53/194) 72.7%

PK (Home) (18/86) 79.1% (29/96) 69.8%

PK (Away) (33/109) 69.7% (24/98) 75.5%

PP vs. Opp. (2/9) 22.2% (3/8) 37.5%

PK vs. Opp. (3/8) 62.5% (2/9) 77.8%

Leading Rookie Hodass (4-16-20) Howe (19-23-42)

Most PIM Parsons - 85 Evans - 69

Team PIM/GM 13.2/Game 13.6/Game

Leading Scorers Baker (5-20-25) Bedard (31-27-58)

Barlage (12-12-24) Evans (11-37-48)

Danielson (10-11-21) Howe (19-23-42)

Wiesblatt (8-13-21) Nijhoff (15-19-34)

MacNeil (7-13-20) Svozil (5-25-30)

Last 5 Games 4-1 L vs Prince Albert (Feb 21 2022) Final 4-3 L vs Swift Current (Feb 21 2022) Final

2-1 L vs Lethbridge (Feb 19 2022) Final 5-4 W @ Prince Albert (Feb 18 2022) Final OT

7-2 L @ Swift Current (Feb 18 2022) Final 6-2 L @ Saskatoon (Feb 12 2022) Final

4-1 L vs Brandon (Feb 16 2022) Final 5-0 W vs Calgary (Feb 11 2022) Final

5-3 L vs Edmonton (Feb 12 2022) Final 6-3 L @ Edmonton (Feb 8 2022) Final

Leading After 1st 4-4-0-1 11-3-0-0

Leading After 2nd 3-0-1-0 16-0-0-0

Tied After 1st 4-9-2-0 5-7-0-0

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

Trailing After 1st 1-20-1-0 2-14-1-1

Trailing After 2nd 4-28-0-1 1-18-1-1

Out Shooting Opponents 3-11-1-0 13-11-1-1

Out Shot by Opponents 6-22-2-1 5-10-0-0

1 Goal Games 6-5-3-1 6-7-1-1

2 Goal Games 2-11-0-0 3-6-0-0

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

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WHERE TO WATCH/LISTEN

Radio: 620ckrm.com

Stream: WHL Live

TV: AccessNow

Today Dante De Caria and Nathan Kanter have the call inside the Brandt Centre...pre-game show coverage starts at 6:35, with puck drop set for 7:00 p.m., on WHL Live, 620 CKRM, 620ckrm.com and the TuneIn app...the game will also be live on AccessNow.

HEAD TO HEAD (2-0-0)

It's the third of four meetings between the Pats and Tigers this season. The Pats last played the Tigers on December 8th at home, with Regina coming away with a 4-2 win, improving to 2-0 versus Medicine Hat this year. The win also snapped a streak of four straight home losses against the Tigers. The Pats are 2-8-0 against the Tigers over the last five seasons. Prior to this season, the Pats had dropped eight in a row vs. MH.

Date Home Away Time Result

November 23rd Medicine Hat Regina 7:00 p.m. MT W, 6-2

December 8th Regina Medicine Hat 7:00 p.m., CT W, 4-2

February 23rd Regina Medicine Hat 7:00 p.m., CT

March 15th Medicine Hat Regina 7:00 p.m., MT

The Pats are 126-121-12-2-2 vs. the Tigers, all-time & 78-49-5-1-0 at home.

REG VS. MH INDIVIDIUAL STATS

Regina Pats

#NameGPGAPTSPIM+/-

27 Borya Valis 2 1 4 5 0 3

21 Cole Carrier 2 4 0 4 0 3

98 Connor Bedard 2 3 1 4 0 2

41 Ryker Evans 2 0 4 4 6 5

43 Tanner Howe 1 0 2 2 2 2

#NameGPWLOTLSLMinsGAGAASV%

30 Matthew Kieper 2 2 0 0 0 120:00 4 2.00 0.937

Medicine Hat Tigers

#NameGPGAPTSPIM+/-

14 Noah Danielson 2 2 1 3 4 -2

4 Daniel Baker 2 0 3 3 2 -2

24 Ashton Ferster 2 1 0 1 0 0

15 Dru Krebs 2 0 1 1 4 0

29 Owen MacNeil 2 0 1 1 2 -3

#NameGPWLOTLSLMinsGAGAASV%

33 Garin Bjorklund 2 0 2 0 0 117:17 8 4.09 0.889

BY THE NUMBERS

48: Points (11G-37A) this season for Ryker Evans is 3rd amongst WHL D while also 2nd in PTS/GP at 1.09...he is the only Pat' to have played in all 44 games this season...he must play the remaining 24 games to reach 200 career...he has points in six of his last eight games (5G-6A).

43: Points (21G-22A) over Connor Bedard's last 18 games since Nov. 28, with points in 17 of those 18 contests...he is currently 1st in goals per game (0.816) while 1st in the WHL in shots (212), averaging 5.57 shots per game...he has recorded eight straight multi-point games (11G-9A-20PTS).

25.7: Shooting percentage for rookie winger Tanner Howe this season leads all WHL rookies...has recorded at least a point in five straight games (3G-5A-8PTS) after going his previous five contests with 0G-1A...he is 2nd among rookies in PPG (9), while T-3rd in PP-PTS (19).

8-4-1: Over the Regina Pats last 13 home games since December 8th, 2021, where they've outscored their opponent 70-to-44 over that time (+26)...the Pats had lost four straight home games prior to this home streak, and were sitting with a 4-8-0 home record prior to December 8th.

66.6: Penalty kill percentage over the Pats last seven games since the start of February (22-for-33, 11 PPGA)...the Pats have given up a power play goal against in six of those eight contests and have allowed at least one power play goal against in 34 of 44 games this season.

COMING UP

The Regina Pats head on their one and only three-in-three of the year, playing in Edmonton on Friday, Red Deer on Saturday and Calgary on Sunday...coming up, the Pats play four games in the next five nights...after playing in Brandon on March 2nd, the Pats return home for a four game homestand where they'll host Red Deer, Lethbridge twice and Calgary.

7:00 p.m., Friday, Feb 25 Regina Pats (18-24-2) at Edmonton Oil Kings (36-11-3)

7:00 p.m., Saturday, Feb 26 Regina Pats (18-24-2) at Red Deer Rebels (31-15-3)

4:00 p.m., Sunday, Feb 27 Regina Pats (18-24-2) at Calgary Hitmen (18-22-7)

7:00 p.m., Wednesday, Mar 2 Regina Pats (18-24-2) at Brandon Wheat Kings (19-15-6)

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