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Shaunavon's Dyson Stevenson netted two goals for the Legionnaires, his 13th and 14th respectively, including a tally in the third period that would stand up as the game winner. Brett Penner and Colton Heffley each added three assists to help the cause. The other two goals came from Alex Laird and Trent Winzer. The latter of the two dangled his way around three defenders for a third period power play marker.
The Legionnaires sit in ninth place after tonight's victory, now seven points behind the Saskatoon Blazers who hold the league's eighth and final playoff spot. The Legionnaires will face the Blazers three more times this season, including twice in a home set to close out the regular season. There is still a glimmer of hope that they'll make playoffs.....the Blazers are the team they're chasing and facing them three more times gives the Legionnaires a little pull in the situation. But they only have seven games remaining and of those five are on the road. Swift Current is also riddled with injuries to key guys including Dylan Balaski, Dayton Reinboldt, Mason Logan and Grayden Turner. They'll have to hope for some favors from other clubs, and win pretty much all of the remaining seven games.
Brayden Holloway, Josh Jelinski, and Rylan Badduke replied for the Warriors, who had won three of four games entering tonight's contest.
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The Swift Current Broncos pulled off a 3-2 OT win in Moose Jaw tonight to close out their season series 5-1 over the Warriors.
-I was unable to focus my complete attention on the game while running the i-Plex sound booth.
-I did see though that the Broncos (as the 44-27 shots in their favour would indicate) dominated parts of the game, especially the second period in which they out-shot the hosts 16-5. Moose Jaw G Jeff Bosch stayed right on his game.
-the Broncos power play sort of struggled to convert again going 1/6, but I thought for some reason it looked more opportunistic and not as dismal as it had looked the past few weeks. I also discussed it with someone who attended the game and that person thought they definitely did a better job of getting shots through on the man advantage and such. So that's great.
-I didn't watch closely enough to comment on Broncos starting G Mark Friesen. He did stop Moose Jaw's Antonin Honejsek on a first period penalty shot, and obviously got the job done in goal tonight.
-the Broncos are now a combined 18-2 versus Moose Jaw the past three years.
Unreal, isn't it?
2 comments:
just out of pure curiousity, can you give a little summary about Dyson Stevenson's game, and upside in the WHL?
Ern just to correct you on the penalty shot, Honejsek lost the puck going to the net & never did get a shot away, I thought Friesen looked scary all night. he was fighting the puck all night. The boys were flying big time tonight. Lets hope the boys can get on winning streak now.
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