
Raiders power play sputters in loss to Pats
The Prince Albert Raiders forget to plug in their power play, and couldn’t get it started Saturday.
The Raiders sputtered 0-9 with the man advantage and gave up a shorthanded goal as the game winner in their 2-1 defeat to the Regina Pats at the Art Hauser Centre. That’s the Raiders’ fourth straight loss as they fall to 13-17-5-2. The Pats get back to a .500 record at 18-18-3-0.
In a fitting conclusion to the game, the Pats’ got their game winning goal shorthanded late in the third period. Jake Leschyshyn stripped Raiders D-man Max Martin of the puck and scored to put the Pats up 2-1 with 6:17 left in the game.
“We had a lot of great looks—but it was a microcosm of the game—we had point blank shots, didn’t score. Hit posts, hit legs and blocked shots,” Raiders head coach Marc Habscheid said. “Structurally, I thought it was okay but we didn’t score. And then we gave up that shorty in the end—game, set, match.”