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Sloan Stanick chases down a Tigers player during a game on Dec. 14, 2022. (Mark Peterson/Prince Albert Raiders)
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Tigers ride first period success to edge Raiders

Dec 15, 2022 | 8:42 AM

PRINCE ALBERT, SK – The Prince Albert Raiders fought hard on Wednesday night but fell short 3-2 to the Medicine Hat Tigers at the Art Hauser Centre.

The loss is the sixth in a row for the Raiders who have yet to win in the month of December.

Despite the loss, however, head coach Jeff Truitt said that there were tons of positives to take away from the game.

“I thought that we controlled a lot of things here tonight,” he said. “They got a couple of unfortunate goals but we worked hard and the guys delivered. We were a little short on the finishing situations but overall, I’m happy with the effort. The work ethic means everything, you don’t get anything without the work ethic and I thought that they worked tonight.”

Cole Peardon and Sloan Stanick were the two who lit the lamp for PA, while Landon Kosior had two assists and Easton Kovacs and Carson Latimer each had one.

For Medicine Hat, Tomas Mrsic, Dallon Melin, and Shane Smith were the goal scorers while Melin, Tyler MacKenzie, Dru Krebs, and Kurtis Smythe were the assist-getters.

Tikhon Chaika made 24 stops for PA in the game where they now fall to 10-19-2-0 on the campaign.

Beckett Langkow stopped 25 shots in the win where the Tigers improve to 12-16-4-1 on the year.

COMPLETE BOX SCORE

The Raiders’ first-period struggles continued into tonight where the Tigers found themselves up early. Mrsic and Melin both scored just 33 seconds apart from each other by managing to squeak the puck past Chaika, Mrsic went high and Melin went low.

Later in the period, the Raiders got one back. About 10 minutes later, Kovac’s point shot was stopped but the Tigers netminder let out a juicy rebound for Raiders rookie Peardon who went five-hole on the sprawling Langkow to make it 2-1 going into the second.

The Tigers lead carried on through the second and into the third where Smith added another late in the third for the Tigers to make it a 3-1 game.

The Raiders pulled Chaika with less than two minutes to go and prevailed with Stanick scoring his tenth of the year with 46 seconds remaining on the clock. But as time ticked down, the Tigers came away with a close 3-2 victory.

PA closes out their five-game homestand on Saturday night when they host the Spokane Chiefs at the Art Hauser Centre. Puck drop is set for 7 pm.

logan.lehmann@pattisonmedia.com

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