WHL Regina Pats

Pats Look for 1st Win vs. ICE

Published on December 29, 2021 under Western Hockey League (WHL)
Regina Pats News Release


Regina, Sask. - The Regina Pats (13-16-0) host the first-place Winnipeg ICE (25-5-2) this evening at 7 p.m. at the Brandt Centre.

This is the first head-to-head meeting between the two clubs since October 16, when the Pats fell 6-3 on the road.

The Pats are coming off a wild 6-5 victory on Monday over the Edmonton Oil Kings in their first game following the brief holiday break.

Six different Pats found the back of the net in the victory, including three defencemen: Tom Cadieux, Ryker Evans and Layton Feist, plus forwards Drew Englot, Braxton Whitehead and rookie Braydon Barnett, who scored his first career WHL in just his second game. Feist recorded a four-point night, with all four coming in the opening period, and was named the game's first star.

The Pats are 4-2 in their last six, but lost four in a row prior to that.

It's been a heck of a season for Winnipeg meanwhile, who are the no. 1 ranked team in the CHL and started the season with 11 straight wins. They are slowly coming back down to earth, however. After going 22-1-1 in their first 24 games, they are now 3-4-1 in their last eight. The ICE are coming off a 5-4 overtime defeat on Monday to the Brandon Wheat Kings.

MATCH UP

Regina

Winnipeg

Team Record 13-16-0-0 - 26 points 25-5-2-0 - 52 points

Division Ranking 5th East 1st East

Conference Ranking 9th Eastern 1st Eastern

League Ranking 15th 1st

Past 10 Games 4-6-0-0 4-4-2-0

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

Last Game

6-5 W vs Edmonton (Dec 27) Final

5-4 L @ Brandon (Dec 27) Final OT

Home Record 8-7-0-0 15-3-1-0

Away Record 5-9-0-0 10-2-1-0

GF 100 153

GA 110 72

PP (Overall) (28/117) 23.9% (43/135) 31.9%

PP (Home) (17/56) 30.4% (31/93) 33.3%

PP (Away) (11/61) 18.0% (12/42) 28.6%

PK (Overall) (33/155) 75.6% (20/105) 81.0%

PK (Home) (18/63) 71.4% (14/70) 80.0%

PK (Away) (15/72) 79.2% (6/35) 82.9%

PP vs. Opp. (2/14) 14.3% (4/11) 36.4%

PK vs. Opp. (4/11) 63.6% (2/14) 85.7%

Leading Rookie Howe (12-12-20) Savoie (17-34-51)

Most PIM McNutt - 54 Finley - 40

Team PIM/GM 14.3/Game 10.7/Game

Leading Scorers Evans (5-25-30) Savoie (17-34-51)

Bedard (14-10-24) McLennon (23-22-45)

Howe (12-12-24) Milne (21-23-44)

Nijhoff (11-9-20) Smallwood (15-22-37)

Dubinsky (9-9-18) Geekie (11-25-36)

Last 5 Games 6-5 W vs Edmonton (Dec 27 2021) Final 5-4 L @ Brandon (Dec 27 2021) Final OT

5-3 L @ Moose Jaw (Dec 18 2021) Final 5-2 L vs Brandon (Dec 18 2021) Final

6-5 W vs Moose Jaw (Dec 17 2021) Final 4-3 W vs Brandon(Dec 17 2021) Final OT

4-3 L @ Brandon (Dec 11 2021) Final 6-0 W @ Saskatoon (Dec 15 2021) Final

5-2 W vs Prince Albert (Dec 10 2021) Final 4-1 L vs Prince Albert (Dec 14 2021) Final

Leading After 1st 8-0-0-0 16-2-2-0

Leading After 2nd 13-0-0-0 19-1-1-0

Tied After 1st 4-5-0-0 6-1-0-0

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

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

Trailing After 2nd 0-13-0-0 1-3-0-0

Out Shooting Opponents 8-8-0-0 20-4-2-0

Out Shot by Opponents 5-6-0-0 4-1-0-0

1 Goal Games 4-4-0-0 5-1-2-0

2 Goal Games 3-4-0-0 5-2-0-0

3 Goal Games 3-6-0-0 5-1-0-0

WHERE TO WATCH/LISTEN

Radio: 620ckrm.com

Stream: WHL Live

HEAD TO HEAD (0-3-0)

This is the fourth of seven meetings this season. Regina and Winnipeg faced off three times in an 11-day span in October, with the ICE winning all three contests by a combined score of 15-7.

Last season, the Pats went 0-4-0 against the ICE. Regina has not beaten the ICE since their move from Kootenay to Winnipeg, with an all-time 0-10-1-1 record, beginning in the 2019-20 season.

Winnipeg ICE vs. REG

#NameGPGAPTSPIM+/-

9 Zachary Benson 3 3 2 5 0 4

93 Matthew Savoie 3 3 2 5 4 3

94 Connor McLennon 3 1 3 4 9 4

24 Mikey Milne 3 1 3 4 4 1

7 Carson Lambos 3 0 4 4 9 1

#NameGPWLOTLSLMinsGAGAASV%

33 Gage Alexander 1 1 0 0 0 60:00 2 2.00 0.929

31 Daniel Hauser 2 2 0 0 0 119:44 5 2.51 0.889

Regina Pats vs. WPG

#NameGPGAPTSPIM+/-

18 Cole Dubinsky 3 1 2 3 7 0

21 Cole Carrier 3 1 1 2 0 0

42 Drew Englot 3 1 1 2 4 0

41 Ryker Evans 3 0 2 2 4 2

11 Stanislav Svozil 3 0 2 2 0 -7

#NameGPWLOTLSLMinsGAGAASV%

30 Matthew Kieper 2 0 2 0 0 118:52 8 4.04 0.869

33 Drew Sim 1 0 1 0 0 60:00 6 6.00 0.806

2021-22 HEAD TO HEAD

Date Home Away Time Result

October 6 Regina Winnipeg 7:00 p.m. MT 5-2 L

October 15 Winnipeg Regina 7:00 p.m. MT 4-2 L

October 16 Regina Winnipeg 7:00 p.m. CT 6-3 L

December 29 Winnipeg Regina 7:00 p.m. CT

January 15 Regina Winnipeg 8:00 p.m. CT

January 16 Regina Winnipeg 5:00 p.m. CT

April 1 Winnipeg Regina 7:00 p.m. CT

BY THE NUMBERS

5: Consecutive games with a goal for Pats captain Logan Nijhoff...the Comox Valley, B.C. native has nine points during that span and is playing in career game #200 tonight.

30: Number of points (5G-25A) for Pats defenceman Ryker Evans, which is tied for second among blue liners in in the WHL...his 25 assists are also tied for second...he has 85 points in his last 100 career games.

15: Consecutive games with a point for 16-year-old forward Tanner Howe...the Prince Albert, SK native has 22 points during the impressive streak, which is the second longest streak of any player so far this season...the longest point streak is held by Edmonton's Jakub Demek, who has a 17-game point streak.

11: Different goal scorers for the Pats in their last three games...Regina has scored 15 goals in those three contests and has averaged 4.43 goals for per game over their last seven games (4-3).

1: Number of times the Pats have gone to extra time this season, tied for the fewest in the WHL...Prince George has also only gone to overtime just once, which happened for the first time last night...Winnipeg has gone to OT three times (1-2), including twice in their last three games.

COMING UP

Friday, December 31 @ 7 p.m. - Regina Pats (13-16-0) at Swift Current Broncos (13-15-4)

Saturday, January 1 @ 4 p.m. - Moose Jaw Warriors (15-14-3) at Regina Pats (13-16-0)

Friday, January 7 @ 7 p.m. - Regina Pats (13-16-0) at Saskatoon Blades (16-13-2)

Saturday, January 8 @ 7 p.m. - Saskatoon Blades (16-13-2) at Regina Pats (13-16-0)

Check out the Regina Pats Statistics

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