Stransky baffles Blades in Raiders season ending win
Simon Stransky scored the first two Prince Albert goals and set up the insurance marker as the Raiders closed out the 2016-17 season with a 5-1 win over the Saskatoon Blades.
It was the Blades who emerged from the first period with a 1-0 lead holding the home side to just four shots on goal in the opening twenty minutes, but the game turned in the blink of an eye.
Kolten Olynek won a faceoff and Stransky buried his first goal of the night into the top corner at 5:24 of the second period, and added a power play marker about six minutes later on a screen shot along the ice. Stransky ended the season with a career high 22 goals.
Ironically, Olynek’s game and season came to an end as part of a second fight during the same stoppage. The 20-year-old’s last act as a WHL player was wrestling Blades defenseman Jackson Caller to the ice.