Raiders Assistant Captain #23 Sloan Stanick attempts to deflect a puck into the goal versus the Swift Current Broncos on Oct. 29, 2022. (Mark Peterson Media)

By Logan Lehmann

Raiders drop third straight

Broncos edge Raiders in back-and-forth contest

Oct 30, 2022 | 7:59 AM

PRINCE ALBERT, SK – The Swift Current Broncos managed to outlast the Prince Albert Raiders on Saturday night, escaping the Art Hauser Centre with a 5-4 win.

The loss is the third in a row for the Raiders, after falling to the Red Deer Rebels and the Calgary Hitmen on their most recent road trip.

“I thought that we carried a lot of the momentum,” said Raiders head coach Jeff Truitt. “We got better as the game went on. We had more offensive zone time, we were outshooting them pretty good. We had traffic in front of the net but they found a way to make a save or a block. From their standpoint, they funneled some pucks to the net that ended up going in, that’s the difference. Our momentum was there, we just couldn’t pull it off.”

Four different Raiders lit the lamp in the contest, with Harrison Lodewyk, Keaton Sorensen, Carson Latimer, and Carter Anderson each scoring. Hayden Pakkala led PA in the assist category with two while Sloan Stanick, Ryder Ritchie, Landon Kosior, Latimer, and Owen Boucher each had one.

Josh Filmon led Swift Current in points in the game with a goal and two assists while Caleb Wyrostok had two goals, and Connor Hvidston and Mathew Ward each had one.

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Tikhon Chaika made just 16 saves in the game as the Raiders fall now to 3-9-2-0 on the campaign.

Broncos netminder Gage Alexander stopped 33 shots to help Swift Current improve to 5-7-0-0 on the year.

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The Raiders broke the ice late first on a bit of a bizarre play.

Pakkala and Lodewyk broke in the Broncos end when Pakkala centred the puck for Lodewyk. Instead of getting the pass, Lodewyk was forced into the goal by a defender but the pass ended up going off Lodewyk and in. The officials would review the play but they didn’t take very long and called it a good goal.

Just under a minute later and Swift Current tied it back up. Pickering’s point shot was tipped in front by Wyrostok to net his second of the year.

But the tie was broken just over a minute after that by a nifty little passing play from the Raiders.

Ritchie had the puck at the point and sent a cross ice pass to Stanick who then sent the puck in front for Sorensen. The Red Deer, AB product stuck his stick out and into the path of the puck and managed to tip it past Alexander to put PA back in front after one.

The Raiders held that 2-1 lead until late in the second when their one-goal advantage quickly became a one-goal deficit.

Wyrostok netted his second of the game on a partial break and 13 seconds later, Filmon went upstairs on Chaika to give Swift Current the lead heading into the third. After two, the Raiders led the Broncos 25-16 in shots.

Swift Current wouldn’t hold that lead for long however with PA capitalizing on the powerplay.

The puck was rung around the boards by a Broncos defender and was picked up along the boards by Latimer who walked it back into the zone and fired it on net from a sharp angle. The puck went off of Alexander’s shoulder and trickled across the line to tie the game at three.

The Broncos regained the lead on the 4-on-3 powerplay when Hvidston got the puck in tight and roofed it on Chaika with just five minutes left on the clock.

But the Raiders didn’t give up with out a fight. Less than three minutes to go, Latimer connected with Anderson in close who tipped it in to tie back up again.

The back-and-forth bout continued with just two minutes to go. Ward blindly shot the puck at the net and managed to score to give the Broncos the 5-4 lead late.

The Raiders pulled Chaika with 30 seconds left for the extra attacker but couldn’t put the puck away as the Swift Current Broncos escaped PA with the win.

The Raiders are back at home for their next contest on Tuesday night where they’ll host the Tri-City Americans for the first time since Nov. 16, 2018.

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logan.lehmann@pattisonmedia.com

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