By paNOW Staff

Raiders land a spot in the playoffs win with a score of 6-3 against Swift Current

Mar 18, 2011 | 9:28 PM

The Prince Albert Raiders defeated the Swift Current Broncos 6-3 in front of a capacity crowd of 3066 on Friday to clinch a spot in the playoffs for the first time since the 2006-2007 season.

Austin Connor opened the scoring for the Raiders just two minutes into the game to give the Raiders an early 1-0 lead. The Broncos responded just 16 seconds later to tie the game at one before the game was three minutes old.

Jonathan Parker scored his 45th of the year and Antoine Corbin notched a power play goal before the first was over to give the Raiders a 3-1 lead heading in the 2nd.

Rookie Todd Fiddler notched his 22nd goal and Justin Maylan scored his first of two in the game to start the second period and got the Raiders up 5-1, six minutes into the second. The Broncos again responded quickly though, cutting the Raider lead to three 17 seconds later. Justin Maylan scored the Raiders second power play goal of the game before the second was out to give the Raiders a 6-2 lead heading into the second.

The Broncos scored the lone third period tally and to give the Raiders the 6-3 victory and confirm their berth in the post season. The Raiders will meet the first place Saskatoon Blades in the first round of the playoffs which starts with games on Saturday March 26th and Sunday March 27th in Saskatoon.

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Swift Current Broncos 3 at Prince Albert Raiders 6 – Status: End of Game
Friday, March 18, 2011 – Art Hauser Centre – Prince Albert, SK

Swift Current 1 1 1 – 3
Prince Albert 3 3 0 – 6

1st Period-1, Prince Albert, Connor 8 (Bourhis, Corbin), 2:14. 2, Swift Current, Hoban 24 (Dowling, Lowry), 2:31. 3, Prince Albert, Parker 45 (Maylan, Rowley), 5:05. 4, Prince Albert, Corbin 8 (Rowley, McNeill), 5:58 (PP). Penalties-Scarlett S.c (high sticking), 5:41; Blanke S.c (tripping), 8:37; Yaworski P.a (slashing), 12:57; Winther P.a (hooking), 15:41; Lowry S.c (cross checking), 19:40.

2nd Period-5, Prince Albert, Fiddler 22 (McNeill, Herrod), 3:26. 6, Prince Albert, Maylan 19 (Fiddler, McNeill), 6:13. 7, Swift Current, Novotny 22 6:30. 8, Prince Albert, Maylan 20 (Deck, Bettauer), 8:34 (PP). Penalties-Craig S.c (checking from behind), 6:50; Muth S.c (roughing), 10:21; Connor P.a (roughing), 10:21; Herle P.a (slashing), 12:43; Rowley P.a (tripping), 13:31.

3rd Period-9, Swift Current, Vause 17 (Hoban, Nedomlel), 8:16 (PP). Penalties-Maylan P.a (hooking), 1:40; Corbin P.a (kneeing, game misconduct), 5:01; Peddle S.c (major-fighting), 13:21; Bourhis P.a (charging, major-fighting), 13:21; Nedomlel S.c (roughing), 13:35; Verdino S.c (tripping), 16:58.

Shots on Goal-Swift Current 10-18-10-38. Prince Albert 20-12-11-43.
Power Play Opportunities-Swift Current 1 / 7; Prince Albert 2 / 6.
Goalies-Swift Current, Friesen 25-34-0-2 (43 shots-37 saves). Prince Albert, Tucker 12-19-1-2 (38 shots-35 saves).
A-3,366
Referees-Chris Crich (80), Devin Klein (90).
Linesmen-Derek Craig (63), Bob Schrader (126).