Pats Play First of Three Games in Three Nights Inside the Brandt Centre
March 3, 2023 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
Regina Pats News Release
Regina, Sask. - The Regina Pats play the first of three games in three days on home ice tonight at 7:00 p.m. inside the Brandt Centre against the Winnipeg ICE.
The Pats have won their last four contests after a home-and-home sweep over the Brandon Wheat Kings this past weekend, winning 4-3 on the road and 6-3 at home. On Saturday, the Pats got a 35 save performance from Kelton Pyne who grabbed his first win of the season in their 6-3 win. Alexander Suzdalev recorded his first career hat-trick as well as his second four point game of the season (3G-1A) while Tanner Howe (1G-1A), Stanislav Svozil (1G-2A) and Connor Bedard (1G-2A) chipped in with multi-point games.
The Pats earned their 13th comeback win of the season after scoring three unanswered goals in the second stanza after the club trailed 3-1 after one. The final shots were 38-29 for the Wheat Kings. The Pats finished 2-2 on their power play and 4-5 on their penalty kill.
Regina is currently sitting in sixth in the Eastern Conference standings with 61 points and 29 victories this season. They are two points ahead of the seventh place Medicine Hat Tigers who have 59 points.
Meanwhile, the Winnipeg ICE had their 11 game winning-streak come to a close on Wednesday following 6-4 loss to the Medicine Hat Tigers at Co-Op Place. The ICE took a 2-0 lead less than six minutes into the game before the Tigers scored three unanswered goals, and led 4-3 after two periods of action. The ICE were outscored 6-2 in the final 55:35 of the game.
Matthew Savoie (1G-2A), Connor McClennon (1G-1A), Zack Ostapchuk and Easton Armstrong scored for the ICE while Ben Zloty had three assists and Mason Beaupit made 22 saves in the loss. The final shots were 44-28 for the ICE. Winnipeg went 2-6 on the power play and 2-3 on the penalty kill.
MATCH UP
Winnipeg Regina
Team Record 48-8-1-0 - 97 points 29-24-2-1 - 61 points
Division Ranking 1st East 4th East
Conference Ranking 1st Eastern 6th Eastern
League Ranking 1st 11th
Past 10 Games 9-1-0-0 7-3-0-0
Streak 0-1-0-0 4-0-0-0
Last Game 6-4 L @ Medicine Hat (Mar 1 2023) Final 6-3 W vs Brandon (Feb 25 2023) Final
Home Record 24-2-1-0 15-11-0-1
Away Record 24-6-0-0 14-13-2-0
GF 276 216
GA 147 224
PP (Overall) (58/240) 24.2% (59/210) 28.1%
PP (Home) (30/114) 26.3% (29/99) 29.3%
PP (Away) (28/126) 22.2% (30/111) 27.0%
PK (Overall) (43/226) 81.0% (57/240) 76.3%
PK (Home) (19/105) 81.9% (20/104) 80.8%
PK (Away) (24/121) 80.2% (37/136) 72.8%
PP vs. Opp. (6/22) 27.3% (4/21) 19%
PK vs. Opp. (4/21) 81% (6/22) 72.7%
Leading Rookie Woo (2-10-12) Suzdalev (34-41-75)
Most PIM Armstrong - 67 Vaughan - 71
Team PIM/GM 11.8/Game 13.0/Game
Leading Scorers Benson (34-59-93) Bedard (54-60-114)
Savoie (32-46-78) Suzdalev (34-41-75)
McClennon (40-35-75) Howe (29-41-70)
Zloty (10-61-71) Svozil (9-55-64)
Pederson (29-36-65) Valis (18-25-43)
Last 5 Games 6-4 L @ Medicine Hat (Mar 1 2023) Final 6-3 W vs Brandon (Feb 25 2023) Final
10-1 W @ Edmonton (Feb 28 2023) Final 4-3 W @ Brandon (Feb 24 2023) Final
8-1 W @ Edmonton (Feb 26 2023) Final 6-3 W vs Medicine Hat (Feb 22 2023) Final
2-1 W @ Red Deer (Feb 24 2023) Final 4-2 W vs Lethbridge (Feb 20 2023) Final
5-2 W @ Calgary (Feb 22 2023) Final 7-4 L vs Winnipeg (Feb 18 2023) Final
Leading After 1st 29-2-0-0 18-5-1-0
Leading After 2nd 37-0-0-0 23-2-1-0
Tied After 1st 14-2-1-0 6-3-0-0
Tied After 2nd 8-1-1-0 3-6-0-0
Trailing After 1st 5-4-0-0 5-16-1-1
Trailing After 2nd 3-7-0-0 3-16-1-1
Out Shooting Opponents 35-6-1-0 12-7-0-1
Out Shot by Opponents 12-1-0-0 15-17-2-0
1 Goal Games 15-4-1-0 11-4-2-1
2 Goal Games 7-2-0-0 2-3-0-0
3 Goal Games 12-2-0-0 9-7-0-0
WHERE TO WATCH/LISTEN
Radio: 620ckrm.com
Stream: WHL Live
TV: TSN
HEAD TO HEAD (0-5-0-0)
Date Home Away Time Result
October 7th Regina Winnipeg 7:00 p.m. MDT L, 5-2
November 17th Winnipeg Regina 7:05 p.m. CST L, 9-5
November 19th Winnipeg Regina 8:05 p.m. CST L, 5-2
December 11th Winnipeg Regina 5:05 p.m. CST L, 6-1
February 18th Regina Winnipeg 7:00 p.m. CST L, 7-4
March 3rd Regina Winnipeg 7:00 p.m. CDT
It's the fifth of six meetings this season between the Pats and ICE. Last season, the ICE went 7-0 vs. the Pats (37GA-14GF). The Pats are 0-18-1-1 against the ICE since their move from Kootenay to Winnipeg at the beginning of the 2019-20 season. The last time the Pats defeated the Kootenay/Winnipeg franchise was on February 20, 2019, as the Pats won 5-4 in a shootout.
INDIVIDUAL HEAD-TO-HEAD
Regina Pats
# Name GP G A PTS PIM +/-
98 Connor Bedard 4 3 6 9 4 -8
91 Alexander Suzdalev 5 2 3 5 6 -6
11 Stanislav Svozil 5 2 2 4 0 -9
43 Tanner Howe 5 2 1 3 2 -3
37 X Easton Armstrong 4 0 3 3 4 0
44 Layton Feist 5 1 1 2 2 -5
51 Jaxsin Vaughan 5 1 1 2 14 0
52 Braxton Whitehead 5 1 1 2 2 -4
38 Brayden Barnett 4 1 0 1 0 -2
55 Sam Oremba 5 1 0 1 0 -11
# Name GP W L OTL SL Mins GA GAA SV%
33 Drew Sim 1 0 1 0 0 59:10 4 4.06 0.875
31 Kelton Pyne 2 0 2 0 0 118:05 12 6.10 0.833
30 X Matthew Kieper 2 0 2 0 0 119:10 13 6.55 0.827
Winnipeg ICE
# Name GP G A PTS PIM +/-
9 Zach Benson 5 3 8 11 6 6
93 Matthew Savoie 5 5 5 10 6 5
17 Owen Pederson 5 4 5 9 7 3
94 Connor McClennon 5 4 3 7 2 6
4 Ben Zloty 5 1 5 6 2 8
34 Ty Nash 5 3 2 5 2 4
28 Conor Geekie 5 2 2 4 4 7
7 Carson Lambos 3 0 4 4 0 2
10 Evan Friesen 5 2 1 3 5 4
10 Zack Ostapchuk (total) 2 2 1 3 0 -1
44 Graham Sward 4 1 2 3 8 8
# Name GP W L OTL SL Mins GA GAA SV%
31 Daniel Hauser 3 3 0 0 0 180:00 7 2.33 0.905
30 Mason Beaupit 2 2 0 0 0 119:44 7 3.51 0.875
HEADLINES
The Pats are 11-5-1 over their last 17 games since Jan. 8, defeating the Calgary Hitmen 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) and Brandon twice (4-3 & 6-3) which comes following a three game skid from Jan. 1 - Jan. 6...during that time, they have outscored their opponents 80-to-68 (+12 goal diff).
The Pats have won four straight games, tying their longest winning-streak of the season which occurred from Dec. 2 - Dec. 11...in fact, it's their longest winning-streak of two or more games since Jan. 9 - Jan. 14....during this time, they have outscored opponents 20-to-11.
Regina Pats Head Coach and GM John Paddock picked up his 200th win as coach of the Pats on Feb. 11...sitting on 204 wins, he passed Frank Mario (202) for third on the all-time wins list...he is two wins away from tying Murray Armstrong (206) for second.
BY THE NUMBERS
114: Number of points (54G-60A) in 45 games for captain Connor Bedard leads the WHL...his 54 goals and 60 assists are also tops in the league...since having his 35-game point-streak come to an end on Feb. 3, he's recorded 24 points (10G-14A) over his last eight games.
34: Goals for Alexander Suzdalev leads all WHL rookies...he has points in 14 of his last 17 games (13G-15A-28PTS) as well as points in three straight (4G-3A) and goals in back-to-back games (4G)...his 75 points are tied for seventh in the WHL, while his 34 goals are tied for ninth.
18: Points (7G-11A) for Tanner Howe over his last 13 games, with points in 10 of those 13 contests...he had his six game point-streak (5G-5A) end last Friday...he has also scored in five of his last seven games...his 29 goals and 70 points this season are career highs.
27: Number of points (4G-23A) in 16 games for Stanislav Svozil since coming back from the World Juniors on Jan. 13...the Czechia product is second amongst defencemen in assists with 55 and third in points with 64...his 1.45 points/game is second amongst all defencemen.
50: Number of goals (+1 in shootout) for the Pats over the past 11 games, with six of the last 11 games ending by two goals or less (7-3-1), all coming since Jan. 31...during that time, the Pats have received goals from 11 different players over their last 11 games.
COMING UP
7:00 p.m., Saturday, March 4 - Red Deer Rebels (38-17-1-3) at Regina Pats (29-24-2-1)
4:00 p.m., Sunday, March 5 - Saskatoon Blades (39-13-4-1) at Regina Pats (29-24-2-1)
7:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 8 - Edmonton Oil Kings (8-46-3-0) at Regina Pats (29-24-2-1)
7:00 p.m., Friday, March 10 - Lethbridge Hurricanes (31-21-3-3) at Regina Pats (29-24-2-1)
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