The Raiders celebrate after Aiden Oiring tipped a Linden Burrett shot into the goal to tie the game with less than two minutes left, sending the game to overtime where the Raiders earned the win. (B. Liesse Photo/Seattle Thunderbirds)

By Nick Nielsen

Raiders win 5-4 OT

Raiders win back and forth overtime thriller over Thunderbirds

Nov 15, 2025 | 2:49 AM

The Prince Albert Raiders played their sixth game of seven on the road Friday with their yearly battle against the Seattle Thunderbirds. Both teams were hot coming in with two straight wins, and the lead traded back and forth before the Raiders managed to earn a 5-4 win in overtime.

The Thunderbirds took the lead first with their first chance of the game on the powerplay. At the 11:18 mark, the puck was worked over to Brock England on the left side of the slot who used a screen to fire the puck into the back of the net to get the Thunderbirds on the board.

At the 15:11, the Thunderbirds continued to pressure and a shot from Coster Dunn on the rush would sneak through the five-hole of Dimitri Fortin, and suddenly the Thunderbirds has a two goal lead. The team in front of Fortin didn’t support him great through the first, but Fortin would lock things down the rest of the way and the team would score early and often in the second to start the comeback.

After 1: Raiders 0 – 2 Thunderbirds, shots 14-4 Thunderbirds

It took the Raiders 59 seconds to answer in the second when Linden Burrett put a shot on goal from the middle of the blue line, but that was stopped and went into the corner. Brayden Dube scooped it up and had two men open in front, he quickly found Aiden Oiring who tipped the puck in for his eighth of the season and first of the night.

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Three minutes later, and the Raiders tied it on the powerplay. On the faceoff, Oiring won it back clean to the left side for Daxon Rudolph, and he backed his way into the middle of the ice. He then sent it to the right point for Riley Boychuk, and he quickly returned the puck to Rudolph. Everyone in the building had their eyes on Justice Christensen at the left point, but Rudolph instead fired from the middle into the back of the net for his sixth of the season at 3:59.

Then at 9:19, Oli Chenier worked the puck back to the right point for Ben Harvey who fired a wrist shot on. The puck bounced off the pad, off the ice, into the air, and Jackson Kostiuk swung a baseball swing at it to knock his third of the season into the back of the net to give the Raiders the lead.

The period would end with some 4-on-4 after a double minor from Coster Dunn for highsticking, and Justice Christensen was called for goaltender interference near the end of the powerplay.

After 2: Raiders 3 – 2 Thunderbirds, shots 14-13 Raiders, 27-18 Thunderbirds overall

After the brief 4-on-4 ended, the Raiders would kill off the rest of Christensen’s penalty and the game was on. At 4:40 though, after the Raiders used their timeout after an icing call, a onetimer was set up for Antonio Martorana on the right side where he blasted a onetimer, and suddenly the game was tied again.

Then on the powerplay, the Thunderbirds took the lead again, and Sawyer Mayes got set up for a onetimer right off the faceoff around a screen, and suddenly the Thunderbirds had the lead back at 10:13.

The Raiders would not relent however, and they took over possession for over a minute in the final three minutes of the game. The Raiders pulled Fortin, Jonah Sivertson came over the boards and quickly helped the Raiders keep control of the puck. The puck would come back to Linden Burrett at the right point, and he fired towards the goal with a tip from Aiden Oiring who scored his second of the night and ninth of the season to tie it at 18:51.

After 3: Raiders 4 – 4 Thunderbirds, shots 17-12 Thunderbirds, 44-30 Thunderbirds overall

In the overtime period, the Raiders maintained possession for the most part of the extra period. The Thunderbirds were able to drive the puck down the ice a few times, but solid defence from the Raiders never allowed them to get a shot on goal.

On their second shift out, Brayden Dube sent a puck from his own zone down the ice for Oiring to pick up behind the goal line. Oiring worked the puck back to Dube on the half wall, and Dube shot one from the middle of the blue line that bounced high in the air and dropped behind the goaltender, earning Dube his ninth of the season 3:31 into overtime.

FINAL (OT): Raiders 5 – 4 Thunderbirds, shots 1-0 Raiders, 44-30 Raiders overall

Dimitri Fortin stopped a career high 40 saves on the night on the 44 shots he faced, good for a 0.909 save percentage. His best work came in the second period where, while the Raiders were in the midst of mounting the comeback offensively, Fortin had to make a couple nice saves that kept the momentum with his team.

For Aiden Oiring, he managed a four point night for the first time this season.

After a stretch of 15 straight powerplays without a goal, the Raiders broke that streak on the empty netter in Portland. With the powerplay goal against Seattle, that marks the first powerplay goal the Raiders have scored with a goaltender in net since starting the road trip.

The Raiders have one final game to play in the U.S. on Saturday when they head to Wenatchee to take on the wild.