The faceoff for the Green and White game. (Rob Mahon/paNOW Staff)

By Rob Mahon

Green and White Game

Ten-round shootout decides Raiders green and white game

Sep 11, 2021 | 5:03 PM

A scrimmage to close out training camp is ideally supposed to be as equal as possible to showcase players in a tight game scenario. It’s hard to get much more equal than teams green and white got this afternoon as the Prince Albert Raiders wrapped up their camp.

Adam McNutt scored in the tenth round of the shootout and Eric Pearce, Tyson Laventure, and Nathan Gossoo scored in regulation to lead green to a 4-3 triumph over white in the annual camp-ending affair. Zachary Wilson, Michael Horon, and Kaiden Guhle replied for white.

“It’s always good to matters the most, the green and white game,” said Pearce. “It’s the big game of camp. I was a little scared there, they brought it to us in the third period.”

The reason white had to bring it to green in the third was the start green got off to in the first. Gossoo opened the scoring when he caught goaltender Spencer Borsos cheating off his post and snuck one by him from a tricky angle. Pearce scored from a similar spot on just green’s second shot of the game to extend the lead to 2-0.

“I just went into the corner with Guhle,” Pearce said. “He was on top of me and it took forever for him to get off of me, but I got up, saw the puck was there, brought it out of the corner and took it to the net.”

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Wilson cut the lead in half late in the first when he scooped up a rebound and patiently cut to his backhand to outwait Carter Serhyenko. But that was the last goal scored for a long time, though it looked like Landon Kosior scored one for green in the second that got waived off as the referee said he gloved it into the net.

White found their footing early in the third, however, with Horon driving the net and opening up the five-hole on Max Hildebrand. Then, late in a white power play, Guhle collected the puck off a broken play, elected to keep it himself and wired one straight to the top corner to give white their first lead.

“It was kind of funny,” Guhle said. “Me and Goldy (Terrell Goldsmith) had a little miscommunication and I got it and just kind of shot it and it went in. It was a little bit of a weird play and a little bit lucky but I was happy to see it go in.”

White tried to get a two-goal lead and came very close on several occasions. At the other end, goaltender Matthew Malin held off a hard charge from green, but couldn’t keep them off the board forever. Off a goalmouth scramble, Laventure lifted the puck free at the side of the net and elevated a backhander home to tie the game.

A close game produced a similarly close overtime, which included several odd-man rushes and even some heavy physical play, with Guhle lowering the boom on rookie Bryce Warkentine late in the extra session.

“Guys were working hard, they wanted to be out there,” Guhle said. “It was a good pace, a lot of good young players coming up. It was a good game out there today.”

With no goals in overtime, the game went to a shootout, and like the game itself, the shootout was nearly air-tight. Cale Sanders snapped one home for green and Harrison Lodewyk scored for white to answer, but it was a long time before anyone scored again. In the tenth round, McNutt rifled a shot low-glove past Malin for what turned out to be the game-winner.

The Raiders now move to more regular practices ahead of their exhibition contests. Those games begin on Friday against the Regina Pats at the Art Hauser Centre. Puck drop is 7:00.

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