By Drew Wilson

Quinney cashes in twice in Raiders win

Nov 23, 2014 | 8:37 PM

The Raiders erupted for three unanswered third period goals to pull out a 5-3 win in Lethbridge, but increasing their win streak to three for the first time this season was an uphill battle.

The Raiders had a chance to jump into an early lead but couldn’t get organized on a pair of first period power plays. The Hurricanes then opened the scoring 13-minutes into the first period as Prince Albert product Bryton Sayers converted a cross seam pass from Jamal Watson on a Hurricane power play.

The Raiders picked up the pace in the second period on goals by Jayden Hart and Gage Quinney but needed two huge save from Rylan Parenteau to keep the game tied heading into the third period. He robbed Watson point blank on another Lethbridge power play and took what looked like a sure goal away from Dexter Bricker with a phenominal glove save seconds after Quinney tied the game. Parenteau also stopped Taylor Copper on a first period breakaway picking up his third straight win with a solid 32 save performance.

Watson finally solved Parenteau on a breakaway just past the six minute mark of the third period to give the Hurricanes their third lead of the night, but Quinney tied it 19-seconds later with a sizzling top corner snap shot after a pair of drop passes by Brendan Guhle and Reid Gardiner.

Captain Josh Morrissey’s seeing eye slapper from the point proved to be the winner with less than five minutes remaining. Morrissey’s 6th goal of the season is the 59th of his career, leaving him one shy of tying the franchise record for goals by a defenseman held by Emanuel Vivieros. He broke Vivieros’ single season record last year.

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Morrissey drew two assists on the night including Gardiner’s insurance marker at 18:51. Gardiner also had two assists and like Morrissey was plus-2 on the evening. Zane Jones rounded out the Lethbridge scoring as the Hurricanes have now lost nine in a row.

The Raider power play was 0/3 while the penalty killiers were five-for-six with the shots ending up at 35-a-piece.

It was a game that lacked flow because of the many stoppages and Assistant Coach Kelly Guard told the 900 CKBI post game audience despite a slow start the team got stronger as the contest progressed. Guard also said they need to react better to lost face-off’s when they meet the Oil Kings Tuesday in Edmonton. The three game road trip wraps up Wednesday in Calgary withe the next home game Saturday against Brandon. All Raider games can be heard on 900 CKBI.

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