The Raiders celebrate after Max Heise ripped a onetimer home off a great assist from Riley Boychuk. (Mark Peterson/Prince Albert Raiders)

By Nick Nielsen

10 game point streak

Raiders back in win column to open weekend home and home with Broncos

Oct 25, 2025 | 1:14 AM

The Prince Albert Raiders managed a record of 4-0-1 in the first five games of their homestand, most recently losing in overtime to Edmonton on Saturday in an otherwise fantastic game. To finish the homestand, the Raiders welcomed the Swift Current Broncos for their first meeting of the season.

The Raiders controlled the game well but couldn’t find a way to score until late, and they’d crack through the floodgates for a 4-0 win.

Both teams managed to get a powerplay in the first period, and the Raiders would come away looking like they had more control despite neither team scoring. Broncos forward Carter Moen had two breakaway attempts, but was stripped of the puck both times by Linden Burrett and Daxon Rudolph.

The Raiders had two great chances in the first. Brock Cripps first danced his way from the middle of the blueline before making a move around a defender to get a chance in tight from the left side, but Joey Rocha made a great save. Near the end of the period, Max Heise drove the front of the crease from the corner, but he couldn’t stretch out far enough to tuck the puck around the far side and just missed the far post.

After 1: Raiders 0 – 0 Broncos, shots 9-4 Raiders

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The Broncos got a third breakaway chance when Parker Rondeau managed to get in alone, but he tried to make a move towards the fivehole and Michal Orsulak shut the door.

Then came a stretch where the Raiders were given plenty of opportunity to score, but it was starting to look like Joey Rocha’s night in net. With Daxon Yerex already in the box for cross checking, Peyton Kettles hit Riley Boychuk up high with an elbow, and he would get ejected with a five minute major for head contact.

With 36 of 5-on-3, the Raiders managed a few chances and looked good, but once the first penalty ended the Broncos managed to send the puck down the ice a few times to kill the first two minutes of the 5-on-4. The last three minutes, the Raiders moved the puck well and generated shot after shot, but solid goaltending from Rocha and quick clearing efforts from the Broncos defence kept the game tied.

Even after a play late where Raiders goaltender Michal Orsulak caught the Broncos sleeping and sent a pass ahead to the opposite goaltender to spring Aiden Oiring on the breakaway, he was denied. The Raiders had the momentum, but they still couldn’t score.

After 2: Raiders 0 – 0 Broncos, shots 17-6 Raiders, 26-10 Raiders overall

Early in the third period, the Raiders broke the dam open. At 4:46, Aiden Oiring sent a pass out of his own zone for Owen Corkish at the left side of centre, and Corkish used every piece of his game to score a beauty. He made a great move to dance around a defender at the blueline, then walked in on a 2-on-1 and fired short side. The initial save was made, but Corkish then brought out the grit, found his own rebound, and banked it off the goaltender and in for his third of the season.

Then at 6:19, Brayden Dube played the puck behind the net for Corkish to work with again, and this time he found Aiden Oiring in the slot for a onetimer and Oiring’s sixth of the season.

At 16:13, Riley Boychuk managed to extend his point streak to ten straight games to start the season. First he stole a breakout pass from the Broncos right at the blueline, and then he walked into the middle of the slot. That drew nearly every defender on the ice, and just as everyone thought Boychuk was going to shoot, he instead found Max Heise streaking into the zone for a onetimer and his fifth of the year.

Finally at 17:42, Ben Harvey helped hold the puck in to then find Linden Burrett on the right point. Burrett then made a great pass down low to Ty Meunier, and without a defender in sight Meunier walked across the front of the crease, waiting for Rocha to bit, and finally Meunier fired to score his fourth of the season.

FINAL: Raiders 4 – 0 Broncos, shots 10-8 Raiders, 36-18 Raiders overall

As the Raiders re-enter the win column, they have now extended their point streak to ten straight games to start the season. The Everett Silvertips are the only other team in the WHL without a loss in regulation.

Riley Boychuk picked up a point off a great assist, also extending his point streak to ten games now with 2G-10A.

Despite coming in with one of the top powerplays in the league, the Raiders are now 1/13 across their last four games.

The Raiders head on the road for the end of the home and home series Saturday in a rematch with the Broncos. Game time is 7:00 p.m. with the Brandt Raider Radio broadcast moving over to 101.5 FM Beach Radio. Pregame show starts at 6:30.