Mintos split weekend with Legionnaires, pick up three points
The Prince Albert Mintos were 50/50 during this past weekend’s two-game set versus the Swift Current Legionnaires at the Art Hauser Centre.
The Mintos first played the visitors on Saturday night where the game needed extras to decide a winner.
The game started hot for P.A. with rookie forward Taite Donkin scoring just over five minutes in with the help of Owen Nelson. From there, however, the goal lamp would stay dark for the remainder of the period and through the second as it would finally turn on again midway through the third, only this time for Swift Current. Jace Egland got the Legionnaires on the board with assists from Trae Lees and Wesley Olson to force overtime.
When that solved nothing, the contest went to a shootout. Either of the first two skaters for both clubs managed to score but in the third round, Egland scored again to give Swift Current the upper hand before netminder Berney Weston shut down Konnor Watson’s equalizing attempt to take game one over Prince Albert, 2-1 in a shootout.