Matyas Man leads the fly-by for the Prince Albert Raiders after scoring his first goal in the WHL. (Mark Peterson/Prince Albert Raiders)

By Nick Nielsen

Raiders Win 4-1

Penalty kill leads Raiders to five game points streak with win over Wheat Kings

Nov 22, 2025 | 1:20 AM

After 20 days since their last game at home, the Prince Albert Raiders returned home on Friday night to welcome the red hot Brandon Wheat Kings. The Raiders scored early, and from there they stayed disciplined enough the rest of the way to win the powerplay battle come away with the 4-1 win.

After the first Raiders powerplay gave them the momentum, they put the Wheat Kings on their heels enough to the point that they had six men on the ice. Even then, the Raiders forecheck went to work as Ben Harvey and Connor Howe worked together to get the puck free for Matyas Man at the left point. With a mess of bodies in front, Man fired through traffic and scored his first of the season, and his first in the WHL at 4:50.

On their second powerplay, the Raiders scored at the 5:27 mark. Aiden Oiring didn’t get an assist but won the faceoff back to Daxon Rudolph, he sent it across the blueline for Riley Boychuk as the screen formed in front of the net, and Boychuk put a shot-pass through the slot for Max Heise to tip in for his tenth of the season.

The Raiders got two more powerplays before the end of the first period, one of which was cut off by a penalty of their own, and things boiled over at the end of the period. A slashing penalty to Gunnar Gleasman lead to a scrum. Ultimately, the Raiders would get a fifth powerplay to start the second period with Max Heise in the box for fighting with Nigel Boehm, Linden Burrett gone for roughing and a 10 minute misconduct with Prabh Bhathal, and the extra penalty to Gleasman.

After 1: Raiders 2 – 0 Wheat Kings, shots 14-5 Raiders

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The Raiders didn’t score on the powerplay that started the period, and a second powerplay after that, but they still managed to take the momentum. Ethan Bibeau made his Raiders return, and he would drop the gloves with Carter Klippenstein.

At the 11:43 mark, Owen Corkish worked the puck down the right wall and below the goal line. Aiden Oiring picked the puck up and he tried to feed it out into the slot. Instead, it hit a body and came to the side of the goal for Brock Cripps sneaking in from the blue line, and Cripps managed to bury the puck for his second of the season.

After 2: Raiders 3 – 0 Wheat Kings, shots 14-8 Raiders, 28-13 Raiders overall

In the third, the Wheat Kings powerplay was finally able to find the back of the net on a 5-on-3. After working the puck from Grayson Burzynski and Joby Baumuller back to the blue line to Luke Mistelbacher, and he fired his trademark wrist shot through the middle to get the Wheat Kings on the board at 12:18.

The Raiders killed off the second part of the penalty, and soon time was starting to run out on the Wheat Kings, and they pulled the goaltender. The Raiders did an excellent job keeping the Wheat Kings to the outside, unable to find a shooting lane, until Riley Boychuk managed to steal the puck and swat it down the ice with exactly one minute left for his fourth of the season.

FINAL: Raiders 4 – 1 Wheat Kings, shots 6-4 Wheat Kings, 32-19 Raiders overall

With the win, the Raiders have extended their point streak to five games with a 4-0-1 record since suffering their only regulation loss of the season.

Max Heise scored for the first time in seven games after going without a goal the entire U.S. road swing, and is the first Raider to hit the ten goal mark. In his last three home games, Heise has five goals.

Riley Boychuk has a three game point streak going now with 1G-3A in that time, and with 21 points on the season he has re-entered in the scoring race for the Raiders. He sits two points behind Aiden Oiring and Brayden Dube who lead the team with 23 points.

The Raiders have the next week off until Friday, when they will head to Brandon for a rematch with the Wheat Kings, and then right back home on Saturday to take on the Medicine Hat Tigers the very next day.