
Ice Hawks open season with 5-4 victory
It wasn’t the prettiest of home openers for the Prince Albert Ice Hawks, but they started off their PJHL campaign 1-0 beating the Ochapowace Thunder 5-4.
At one point in the second period, the Ice Hawks had a 4-0 lead but a slew of penalties in the second allowed the Thunder to come back into the game, scoring three goals in the last seven minutes of the period and headed into the third down 4-3.
“I thought we played really well 5-on-5 and we executed what we wanted to do but we got in trouble… on penalties,” said Ice Hawks head coach Trevor Gunville. “They’ve had two games under their belt and this was our first one so guys and I think the guys were a little up tight.
“We came in after the second period and we talked about getting back to the things that were working for us in the first and just sticking to our systems and going out and trying to outshoot them and get pucks to the net.”