WHL Regina Pats

Regina Hosts Calgary in Bedard's Return to Brandt Centre

Published on January 8, 2023 under Western Hockey League (WHL)
Regina Pats News Release


Regina, Sask. - The Regina Pats host the Calgary Hitmen at 4:00 p.m. in Connor Bedard's return to the Brandt Centre on Sunday, presented by Save on Foods.

The Pats are coming off a 6-0 loss to the Seattle Thunderbirds on Friday night, as the club dropped their third straight contest. Kelton Pyne made his second start of the season and first on home ice, allowing six goals on 34 shots. The final shots were 34-28 for the Thunderbirds, but 15-5 for Regina in the third period. The Pats went 3-4 on their penalty kill and 0-4 on their power play in the defeat.

Meanwhile, the Calgary Hitmen are coming off a 2-1 shootout win over the Moose Jaw Warriors on Friday night, as they end their four game Eastern Division road trip today. The Hitmen tied the contest just over five minutes into the third period with Riley Fiddler Schultz scoring his 21st of the season to tie it. In the shootout, Zack Funk scored the winner, giving Calgary their 21st victory of the season. The final shots were 44-36 for Calgary and 9-4 for the Hitmen in overtime. They went 1-5 on their power play and 6-7 on their penalty kill.

The Hitmen have now won three straight games coming into today's game, with all of their victories over the course of the first three games of this road trip (8GF-4GA). Prior to this streak, Calgary had lost their last two games, with both of them to Red Deer (4-1 & 5-3).

MATCH UP

Calgary Regina

Team Record 21-11-3-1 - 46 points 18-19-1-1 - 38 points

Division Ranking 2nd Central 4th East

Conference Ranking 5th Eastern 7th Eastern

League Ranking 8th 10th

Past 10 Games 7-3-0-0 3-7-0-0

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

Last Game 2-1 W @ Moose Jaw (Jan 6 2023) Final SO 6-0 L vs Seattle (Jan 6 2023) Final

Home Record 8-5-1-1 7-9-0-1

Away Record 13-6-2-0 11-10-1-0

GF 129 136

GA 98 157

PP (Overall) (27/155) 17.4% (38/153) 24.8%

PP (Home) (13/69) 18.8% (14/67) 20.9%

PP (Away) (14/86) 16.3% (24/86) 27.9%

PK (Overall) (19/162) 88.3% (43/175) 75.4%

PK (Home) (10/74) 86.5% (12/67) 82.1%

PK (Away) (9/88) 89.8% (31/108) 71.3%

PP vs. Opp. (2/10) 20% (2/8) 25%

PK vs. Opp. (2/8) 75% (2/10) 80%

Leading Rookie Danis (6-8-14) Suzdalev (21-26-47)

Most PIM Slaney - 53 Vaughan - 58

Team PIM/GM 13.7/Game 14.2/Game

Leading Scorers Fiddler-Schultz (21-21-42) Bedard (27-37-64)

Tulk (15-17-32) Howe (21-27-48)

Funk (13-19-32) Suzdalev (21-26-47)

Siepmann (7-24-31) Svozil (5-32-37)

Tschigerl (12-17-29) Valis (14-17-31)

Last 5 Games 2-1 W @ Moose Jaw (Jan 6 2023) Final SO 6-0 L vs Seattle (Jan 6 2023) Final

3-1 W @ Prince Albert (Jan 4 2023) Final 6-2 L @ Brandon (Jan 4 2023) Final

3-2 W @ Saskatoon (Jan 3 2023) Final OT 5-2 L vs Prince Albert (Jan 1 2023) Final

5-3 L vs Red Deer (Jan 1 2023) Final 4-3 W @ Prince Albert (Dec 30 2022) Final OT

4-1 L @ Red Deer (Dec 29 2022) Final 4-0 L vs Brandon (Dec 28 2022) Final

Leading After 1st 13-0-2-1 14-1-1-0

Leading After 2nd 16-0-0-1 15-0-0-0

Tied After 1st 4-3-1-0 2-3-0-0

Tied After 2nd 2-3-1-0 2-4-0-0

Trailing After 1st 4-8-0-0 2-15-0-1

Trailing After 2nd 3-8-2-0 1-15-1-1

Out Shooting Opponents 16-5-3-0 8-6-0-1

Out Shot by Opponents 4-6-0-1 9-13-1-0

1 Goal Games 5-2-3-1 7-3-1-1

2 Goal Games 2-2-0-0 1-1-0-0

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

WHERE TO WATCH/LISTEN

Radio: 620ckrm.com

Stream: WHL Live

HEAD TO HEAD (1-1-0-0)

The Pats are 49-52-2-6-3 vs. the Hitmen, all-time, 24-30-0-2-0 at home & 21-31-1-3-0 on the road.

Date Road Home Time Result

October 2nd Regina Calgary 7:00 p.m. MDT L, 7-3

December 10th Calgary Regina 7:00 p.m. CST W, 5-2

January 8th Calgary Regina 7:00 p.m. CST

February 1st Regina Calgary 7:00 p.m. MST

It's the third of four meetings this season between these two clubs. The Pats went 2-1-2-1 in six meetings against the Hitmen last season, going 2-0-0-1 at home and 0-1-2-0 on the road. The Pats are 3-5-4 over their last 12 meetings vs. Calgary but have won their last three matchups against the Hitmen inside the Brandt Centre (14GF-3GA). The Pats last faced the Hitmen on Dec. 10, winning 5-2.

REGINA VS. CALGARY - TEAM VS. TEAM INDIVIDUAL STATS

Regina Pats

# Name GP G A PTS PIM +/-

91 Alexander Suzdalev 2 2 1 3 2 0

11 Stanislav Svozil 2 0 3 3 0 1

43 Tanner Howe 2 1 1 2 2 -4

29 Tanner Brown (total) 2 1 0 1 2 0

RD 1 0 0 0 0 0

REG 1 1 0 1 2 0

44 Layton Feist 2 1 0 1 2 0

10 Riley Ginnell 1 1 0 1 7 -1

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

33 Drew Sim 1 1 0 0 0 60:00 2 2.00 0.950

35 X Koen MacInnes 1 0 1 0 0 60:00 7 7.00 0.848

Calgary Hitmen

# Name GP G A PTS PIM +/-

21 Riley Fiddler-Schultz 2 3 1 4 4 2

24 Zac Funk 2 1 3 4 7 3

19 Sean Tschigerl 2 0 4 4 0 1

37 Oliver Tulk 2 3 0 3 0 1

22 Tyson Galloway 2 0 3 3 0 3

26 Carter Yakemchuk 2 0 3 3 4 -1

11 Matteo Danis 2 1 0 1 0 -2

8 Grayden Siepmann 2 1 0 1 2 1

17 David Adaszynski 2 0 1 1 0 2

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

35 Brayden Peters 2 1 1 0 0 118:43 6 3.03 0.900

HEADLINES

Today marks Connor Bedard's first game at the Brandt Centre since November 12, 2022 where the Pats came away with a 6-2 win over the Red Deer Rebels, and Bedard had two points (1G-1A). His last game with Regina was the end of a successful Western Canada road trip where the Pats went 5-1, as he last played for the Regiment on December 4, 2022, scoring five points (1G-4A) in a 8-2 win over the Edmonton Oil Kings.

Bedard missed 11 Pats games. The club went 4-7 without Bedard in the lineup and 14-12-1-1 with him in the lineup.

The Pats traded 2003 F Easton Armstrong to the Winnipeg ICE for 2005 D Omen Harmacy on Saturday. Armstrong totaled 22 points (13G-9A) in 39 games this season for the Pats while Harmacy tallied three assists in 30 games with the ICE this year.

BY THE NUMBERS

64: Number of points (27G-37A) in 28 games for Pats captain Connor Bedard leads the WHL...his 37 assists are tied for first and his 27 goals are second...the North Vancouver, BC product is also on a 27 game point-streak with all 64 points during that time.

47: Points for Alexander Suzdalev is tied for 14th in the WHL, while his 21 goals are tied for 10th...the Washington Capitals 2022 third-round pick has points in 20 of his last 25 games (15G-23A-38PTS)...his 12 power play goals are tied for third in the WHL.

48: Points this season for forward Tanner Howe is tied for 12th in the WHL, while his 21 goals are also tied for 10th and his shooting percentage of 25.6% (21-for-82) is fifth...he has 22 points over his last 17 games (11G-11A).

23: Points for Connor Bedard (9G-13A) at the 2023 World Junior Hockey Championship, in which he set the record for most points by a Canadian at the WJ's...he also set the record for most career points (36) and goals (17) by a Canadian at the World Juniors.

17-15-1-1: First half record this season versus the Pats 11-16-0 first half record last season where the Pats went 7-7-0 at home and just 5-9-0 on the road...at end of the first half last year, the Pats were 18th in the WHL and sixth in their conference.

COMING UP

7:00 p.m., Friday, Jan. 13 - Saskatoon Blades (26-6-2-0) at Regina Pats (18-19-1-1)

7:00 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 14 - Portland Winterhawks (26-5-2-1) at Regina Pats (18-19-1-1)

7:00 p.m., Friday, Jan. 20 - Regina Pats (18-19-1-1) at Swift Current Broncos (18-15-0-1)

7:00 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 21 - Swift Current Broncos (18-15-0-1) at Regina Pats (18-19-1-1)

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