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Pats Look to Take 2-0 Series Lead vs. Blades

April 2, 2023 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
Regina Pats News Release


Regina, Sask. - The Regina Pats play game two of their first round series against the Saskatoon Blades on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. inside the SaskTel Centre.

The Pats enter action with a 1-0 series lead following a convincing 6-1 victory over Saskatoon on Friday night. It was Connor Bedard (2G-1A) leading the way with a three point contest, while Stanislav Svozil (1G-1A) chipped in with two points and Drew Sim made 27 saves. Zackary Shantz, Riley Ginnell and Tye Spencer (EN) rounded out the scoring.

It was Shantz that got the Pats on the board roughly four minutes into the third, collecting his first career WHL goal. The Pats held a 2-0 lead after two periods of play. The closest the Blades would get in game would be 3-1 deficit thanks to a tally from Lukas Hansen in the third. Bedard, Svozil and Spencer would later put the game out of reach. Austin Elliot would allow five goals on 24 shots in the loss.

The final shots were 28-25 for the Blades but 13-5 for the Pats in the third. Drew Sim turned aside all 10 shots that he faced in the first and all 13 shots that he saw in the second frame. The Pats did not record a power play in game one, but went a perfect 2-2 on the penalty kill.

It's the Pats first game one series victory since March 24, 2017 (5-2 W vs. CGY). The Pats lost the opening game of each of their next three series during the 2017 playoffs where Regina reached the league final.

Meanwhile, the Blades dropped their opening game of the first round on April 22, 2022, falling 5-1 to the Moose Jaw Warriors before dropping that series in five games.

HOW THE TEAMS MATCHUP

Saskatoon Regina

Team Record 48-15-4-1 - 101 points 34-30-3-1 - 72 points

Division Ranking 2nd East 4th East

Conference Ranking 3rd Eastern 6th Eastern

League Ranking 5th 11th

Past 10 Games 8-2-0-0 3-6-1-0

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

Last Game 6-3 W @ Moose Jaw (Mar 25 2023) Final 5-3 L vs Prince Albert (Mar 25 2023) Final

Home Record 25-6-3-0 18-15-0-1

Away Record 23-9-1-1 16-15-3-0

GF 257 262

GA 171 277

PP (Overall) (73/265) 27.5% (65/243) 26.7%

PP (Home) (40/138) 29.0% (31/117) 26.5%

PP (Away) (33/127) 26.0% (34/126) 27.0%

PK (Overall) (43/245) 82.4% (65/283) 77.0%

PK (Home) (22/124) 82.3% (24/124) 80.6%

PK (Away) (21/121) 82.6% (41/159) 74.2%

PP vs. Opp. (8/19) 42.1% (4/18) 22.2%

PK vs. Opp. (4/18) 77.8% (8/19) 57.9%

Leading Rookie Keller (13-17-30) Suzdalev (38-48-86)

Most PIM Lies - 82 Vaughan - 78

Team PIM/GM 10.4/Game 12.5/Game

Leading Scorers Wong (27-59-86) Bedard (71-72-143)

Sidorov (40-36-76) Suzdalev (38-48-86)

Lisowsky (38-33-71) Howe (36-49-85)

De La Gorgendiere (12-53-65) Svozil (11-67-78)

Roulette (24-39-63) Valis (20-28-48)

Last 5 Games 6-3 W @ Moose Jaw (Mar 25 2023) Final 5-3 L vs Prince Albert (Mar 25 2023) Final

3-2 W vs Regina (Mar 24 2023) Final 3-2 L @ Saskatoon (Mar 24 2023) Final

4-2 L vs Regina (Mar 19 2023) Final 4-2 W @ Saskatoon (Mar 19 2023) Final

3-2 W vs Brandon (Mar 18 2023) Final 7-3 W @ Moose Jaw (Mar 18 2023) Final

3-2 W @ Swift Current (Mar 15 2023) Final 9-5 L vs Moose Jaw (Mar 17 2023) Final

Leading After 1st 29-3-3-0 20-6-2-0

Leading After 2nd 36-1-2-1 26-2-2-0

Tied After 1st 13-5-1-1 8-3-0-0

Tied After 2nd 9-1-1-0 4-7-0-0

Trailing After 1st 6-7-0-0 6-21-1-1

Trailing After 2nd 3-13-1-0 4-21-1-1

Out Shooting Opponents 31-9-2-0 12-9-0-1

Out Shot by Opponents 14-5-1-1 20-21-3-0

1-Goal Games 14-1-4-1 12-6-3-1

2-Goal Games 9-9-0-0 4-4-0-0

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

WHERE TO WATCH/LISTEN

Radio: 620ckrm.com

Stream: WHL Live

REGULAR SEASON HEAD-TO-HEAD (2-4-0)

The Pats and Blades have played each other 34 times in playoff games, with Regina going 17-16-1 all-time. The Pats have won three of their six all-time series, while losing both round-robin games in 1986.

Date Road Home Time Result

November 13th Regina Saskatoon 4:00 p.m. CST L, 5-2

December 17th Saskatoon Regina 7:00 p.m. CST L, 6-1

January 13th Saskatoon Regina 7:00 p.m. CST W, 7-4

March 5th Saskatoon Regina 4:00 p.m. CST L, 5-2

March 19th Regina Saskatoon 4:00 p.m. CDT W, 4-2

March 24th Regina Saskatoon 7:00 p.m. MDT L, 3-2

It was the Saskatoon Blades ousting the Regina Pats 4-2 in the season series, outscoring the Pats 23-18 through six contests. On the flip side, the Pats went 2-2 in the second-half of the season against the Blades, while outscoring them 15-14 over their last four contests against Saskatoon.

REGULAR SEASON HEAD-TO-HEAD - INDIVIDUAL STATS

Saskatoon Blades

# Name GP G A PTS PIM +/-

38 Trevor Wong 6 7 8 15 4 3

8 Brandon Lisowsky 6 6 3 9 4 0

5 Aidan De La Gorgendiere 6 1 7 8 2 0

19 Egor Sidorov 5 3 4 7 4 4

34 Conner Roulette 5 1 5 6 2 5

24 Tanner Molendyk 6 2 3 5 2 5

61 Jake Chiasson (total) 7 1 3 4 0 1

BDN 3 1 0 1 0 0

SAS 4 0 3 3 0 1

9 Jayden Wiens 4 2 1 3 4 -1

28 Lukas Hansen 6 1 2 3 6 0

3 Blake Gustafson 5 0 3 3 4 4

47 Charlie Wright 6 0 3 3 0 3

29 Jordan Keller 6 1 1 2 0 4

18 Vaughn Watterodt 6 1 1 2 7 -2

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

31 Austin Elliott 4 3 1 0 0 238:14 10 2.52 0.904

33 Ethan Chadwick 2 1 1 0 0 116:05 8 4.13 0.800

Regina Pats

# Name GP G A PTS PIM +/-

98 Connor Bedard 5 5 4 9 2 -2

91 Alexander Suzdalev 6 3 4 7 4 -3

43 Tanner Howe 6 2 5 7 4 -2

11 Stanislav Svozil 5 0 7 7 2 3

55 Sam Oremba 6 2 2 4 0 2

22 Steel Quiring (total) 4 2 0 2 2 1

REG 3 1 0 1 2 1

EVT 1 1 0 1 2 0

13 Zack Stringer 5 1 1 2 0 -3

27 Borya Valis 4 1 1 2 2 1

40 Parker Berge 6 0 2 2 6 -3

37 X Easton Armstrong 2 1 0 1 0 -3

38 Brayden Barnett 4 1 0 1 2 0

52 Braxton Whitehead 6 1 0 1 0 -3

29 Tanner Brown 6 0 1 1 2 -4

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

31 Kelton Pyne 1 1 0 0 0 60:00 2 2.00 0.955

33 Drew Sim 5 1 4 0 0 295:00 21 4.27 0.858

HEADLINES

The Pats have opened a series against the Blades with a win for the fifth time in team history (eighth all-time playoff series meeting). The last time the Pats defeated the Blades in a playoff series was the Eastern Division Semi-Final in 1993, with the Pats winning in five games. In that series, it was tied 1-1 after the first two games before Regina won the final three contests.

BY THE NUMBERS

143: Points (71G-72A) in 57 games for captain Connor Bedard led the WHL...since having his 35-game point-streak end on Feb. 3, he recorded 53 points (27G-26A) over his last 20 games, with points in 17 of those...he's recorded 10G-8A-17PTS last 5GP.

71: Goals in the 2022-23 regular season led the WHL, while his 72 assists were tied for first...he also led the way in shots on goal (360), points per-game (2.51), goals per-game (1.24), and finished tied for first in game-winning-goals with 11...all while playing in only 57 games.

86: Points this season (38G-48A) in 66 games this season for winger Alexander Suzdalev led all first year WHL players...he also led all rookies in goals (38), assists (48), points (86), power play goals (17), and power play assists (19), and tied for first in points per-game (1.30).

41: Number of points (6G-35A) in 28 games for Stanislav Svozil since coming back from the World Juniors on Jan. 13...the Czechia product finished first in power play assists (36), second in assists (67), second in points per-game (1.39), and third in points (78) in just 56 games.

85: Points this season (36G-49A) for second year forward Tanner Howe was tied for 13th in the WHL...the Prince Albert, Sask. product ended the regular season on a six game point-streak (4G-4A-8PTS) and goals in three straight contests.

COMING UP

Game Date Away Home Time

3 Tuesday, April 4 Saskatoon Regina 7 p.m. MT

4 Wednesday, April 5 Saskatoon Regina 7 p.m. MT

5* Friday, April 7 Regina Saskatoon 7 p.m. MT

6* Saturday, April 8 Saskatoon Regina 7 p.m. MT

7* Monday, April 10 Regina Saskatoon 7 p.m. MT

*If Necessary

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