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Pats Play Surging Rebels

February 26, 2022 - Western Hockey League (WHL)
Regina Pats News Release


Red Deer, Alta. - The Regina Pats (19-25-1-1) play the second game of their three-in-three road trip tonight at 7:00 p.m., against the Red Deer Rebels (32-15-2-1) at the Peavey Mart Centrium.

The Pats are coming off a 6-3 loss to the Edmonton Oil Kings on Friday at Rogers Place, where the Pats allowed a season-high 49 shots against but came back from their largest deficit, scoring three unanswered goals to tie it up at three in the third. Dylan Guenther would score an unassisted goal for the game-winner prior to two late goals by the Oil Kings, which sealed it.

The Pats got goals from Stanislav Svozil, Zane Rowan and Tanner Howe, while Matteo Michels recorded two assists for his first career multi-point game. Drew Sim faced a career-high 49 shots, and made a career-high 43 saves in the loss. The final shots were 49-24, with the Pats going 1-for-6 on the power play and the Oil Kings going 2-for-5 on their power play.

On the other side, the Red Deer Rebels are coming off a 3-2 win over the Prince Albert Raiders on Friday, extending their winning-streak to three games, with all three being decided by two goals or less. The Rebels are tied for the second most wins in one-goal games (11-2-2-1). Today marks the final game of their five game homestand (3-1-0). The Rebels are currently third in the Eastern Conference standings with 67 points.

Their power play is what can hurt you, though, as they're man-advantage ranks fourth best in the WHL at 25.7%. A lot of their power play production has come from Ben King who has scored a league leading 18 power play goals, and is tied with Kyle Crnkovic for the most power play points with 33. Arshdeep Bains is also second in WHL scoring with 73 points, while King's 39 goals also lead the league.

MATCH UP

Regina

Red Deer

Team Record 19-25-1-1 - 40 points 32-15-2-1 - 67 points

Division Ranking 6th East 2nd Central

Conference Ranking 11th Eastern 3rd Eastern

League Ranking 18th 6th

Past 10 Games 3-6-1-0 7-3-0-0

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

Last Game 6-3 L @ Edmonton (Feb 25 2022) Final 3-2 W vs Prince Albert (Feb 25 2022) Final

Home Record 13-11-0-1 15-9-0-1

Away Record 6-14-1-0 17-6-2-0

GF 163 179

GA 176 135

PP (Overall) (48/191) 25.1% (53/206) 25.7%

PP (Home) (32/102) 31.4% (23/98) 23.5%

PP (Away) (16/89) 18.0% (30/108) 27.8%

PK (Overall) (55/202) 72.8% (43/222) 80.6%

PK (Home) (29/99) 70.7% (22/111) 80.2%

PK (Away) (26/103) 74.8% (21/111) 81.1%

PP vs. Opp. (1/5) 20% (1/7) 14.3%

PK vs. Opp. (1/7) 85.7% (1/5) 80%

Leading Rookie Howe (20-24-44) Brigley (2-4-6)

Most PIM Evans - 71 Lind - 77

Team PIM/GM 13.6/Game 13.6/Game

Leading Scorers Bedard (32-28-60) Bains (25-48-73)

Evans (12-38-50) King (39-30-69)

Howe (20-24-44) Sedoff (3-39-42)

Nijhoff (15-19-34) Keeler (21-11-32)

Svozil (6-25-31) Larson (9-17-26)

Last 5 Games 6-3 L @ Edmonton (Feb 25 2022) Final 3-2 W vs Prince Albert (Feb 25 2022) Final

2-0 W vs Medicine Hat (Feb 23 2022) Final 3-2 W vs Winnipeg (Feb 19 2022) Final

4-3 L vs Swift Current (Feb 21 2022) Final 5-3 W vs Saskatoon (Feb 18 2022) Final

5-4 W @ Prince Albert (Feb 18 2022) Final OT 4-0 L vs Edmonton (Feb 11 2022) Final

6-2 L @ Saskatoon (Feb 12 2022) Final 3-1 L @ Brandon (Feb 8 2022) Final

Leading After 1st 11-3-0-0 18-2-1-0

Leading After 2nd 16-0-0-0 23-2-0-1

Tied After 1st 6-7-0-0 6-4-0-0

Tied After 2nd 2-6-0-0 6-3-2-0

Trailing After 1st 2-15-1-1 8-9-1-1

Trailing After 2nd 1-19-1-1 3-10-0-0

Out Shooting Opponents 14-11-1-1 22-8-0-1

Out Shot by Opponents 5-11-0-0 8-6-2-0

1 Goal Games 6-7-1-1 11-2-2-1

2 Goal Games 4-6-0-0 7-7-0-0

3 Goal Games 3-9-0-0 7-3-0-0

WHERE TO WATCH/LISTEN

Radio: 620ckrm.com

Stream: WHL Live

2021-22 HEAD TO HEAD (0-2-0)

This will mark the third of four meetings this season.

Date Road Home Time Result

November 10th Red Deer Regina 7:00 p.m. CST L, 3-2

November 27th Regina Red Deer 7:00 p.m. MST L, 4-2

February 26th Regina Red Deer 7:00 p.m. MST

March 4th Red Deer Regina 7:00 p.m. CST

The Pats are 63-45-4-6-5 vs. the Rebels, all-time and 29-26-2-2-3 on the road.

These two teams last met on November 27th in Red Deer, with the Rebels coming away with a 4-2 win. Both meetings this season have been decided by two goals or less. The Pats are 7-4-3 against the Rebels since the 2017-18 season, and are 4-1-2 in Red Deer during that time. The Pats went 3-0-1 against the Rebels in the 2019-20 season series, with all four games decided by one goal.

REG vs. RD - INDIVIDUAL STATS

Red Deer Rebels

#NameGPGAPTSPIM+/-

20 Arshdeep Bains 2 1 2 3 0 2

26 Talon Brigley 2 1 1 2 0 2

13 Kalan Lind 1 1 1 2 2 2

19 Kai Uchacz 2 1 1 2 2 3

4 Christoffer Sedoff 2 0 2 2 9 2

#NameGPWLOTLSLMinsGAGAASV%

30 Chase Coward 2 2 0 0 0 120:00 4 2.00 0.940

Regina Pats

#NameGPGAPTSPIM+/-

41 Ryker Evans 2 1 2 3 2 2

11 Stanislav Svozil 2 1 1 2 0 0

43 Tanner Howe 1 1 0 1 0 -1

27 Borya Valis 2 1 0 1 0 -2

18 Cole Dubinsky 2 0 1 1 0 0

#NameGPWLOTLSLMinsGAGAASV%

30 Matthew Kieper 1 0 1 0 0 58:53 3 3.06 0.885

33 Drew Sim 1 0 1 0 0 58:01 4 4.14 0.879

HEADLINES

Tanner Howe scored his 20th of the season on Friday in Edmonton, joining Connor Bedard as Pats 16-year-olds to score 20+ this season...they are the first 16-year-old duo to score 20+ goals for the Pats in one season in franchise history...they are the first 16-year-old duo to score 20 or more goals in a season since Nolan Patrick and Brett Howden did so with the Brandon Wheat Kings in 2014-15...Howe is also the 79th 16-year-old in league history to reach at least 20 goals in a season.

Borya Valis left Friday's game with an upper body injury and did not return...the Pats have four players on the injured list as Matthew Kieper, Zack Stringer, Tye Spencer and Logan Nijhoff are off the IR...Pats forward Jakob Brook comes off the injured list today.

Raiden Zacharias made his WHL debut on Friday in Edmonton, becoming 1,239th skater (not including goaltenders) to play in a regular-season or playoff game in franchise history.

BY THE NUMBERS

50: Points (12G-38A) 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 46 games this season...he must play the remaining 22 games to reach 200 career...he has points in eight of his last 10 games (6G-7A).

45: Points (22G-22A) over Connor Bedard's last 20 games since Nov. 28, with points in 19 of those 20 contests...he is currently 1st in goals per game (0.80) while 1st in the WHL in shots (224), averaging 5.6 shots per game...he has recorded a point in 10 straight games (12G-10A-22PTS).

26.0: Shooting percentage for rookie winger Tanner Howe this season leads all WHL rookies...has recorded at least a point in seven straight games (4G-6A-10PTS) after going his previous five contests with 0G-1A...he is 2nd among rookies in PPG (9), while 3rd in PP-PTS (20).

11-7-1: Record for the Pats when forward Zack Stringer is in the lineup this season, with the Pats going 9-0-1 over their last 10 games with Stringer playing...Stringer has missed 27 games this season and 13 straight games (4-9-0 without)...are 8-18-1 without him in the lineup in total this year.

12-0: Record when the Pats score five or more goals in a game versus their 6-12-1-1 record when scoring three or four goals this season...the Pats 2-0 win on Wednesday against Medicine Hat was their first win this season when scoring two or less in a contest.

13: Number of points (5G-8A) for Pats D Stanislav Svozil over his last 12 games since January 28th, with points in seven of those 12 contests...Svozil has also scored five goals over his last nine games after only having one goal over his first 31 contests in the WHL.

COMING UP

4:00 p.m., Sunday, Feb 27 Regina Pats (19-25-2) at Calgary Hitmen (19-23-7)

7:00 p.m., Wednesday, Mar 2 Regina Pats (19-25-2) at Brandon Wheat Kings (26-16-5)

7:00 p.m., Friday, Mar 4 Red Deer Rebels (32-15-3) at Regina Pats (19-25-2)

7:00 p.m., Friday, Mar 5 Lethbridge Hurricanes (20-24-3) at Regina Pats (19-25-2)

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