The Tigers celebrate after one of their many goals in the first two periods in their 7-1 win over the Raiders. (Brandon Schinnour/Medicine Hat Tigers)

By Nick Nielsen

Raiders lose 7-1

Raiders embarrassed in second straight loss to Tigers

Dec 4, 2025 | 12:58 AM

After losing just their second game in regulation of the season on Saturday to the Medicine Hat Tigers, it looked like the Prince Albert Raiders were poised for revenge on Wednesday when they started a four game road trip through Alberta. Instead, the Raiders were outplayed from start to finish in a frustrating 7-1 loss.

The Tigers offence went to work early. At the 3:23 mark, Misha Volotovskii found a rebound off a shot from the point and put it in the net. After a failed Raiders powerplay, the Tigers scored again at 7:40 when Bryce Pickford made a great move off the wall and walked in unopposed before roofing a wrister to give the Tigers a two goal lead.

At 12:14, the Tigers scored again when Jonas Woo forced a turnover while the Raiders were changing, and he sent a pass to the goal line for a waiting Liam Ruck who ripped a wrist shot under the bar short side. To finish off the first period onslaught, Yaroslav Bryzgalov was on the rush and found Ethan Neutens streaking towards the backdoor for the tap in at 13:18.

After the fourth goal, the Raiders pulled Michal Orsulak in favour of Dimitri Fortin. At the end of the period, Evan Smith was called for roughing in a scrum that started in the Raiders end, and frustration from the Raiders was starting to show.

After 1: Raiders 0 – 4 Tigers, shots 10-8 Tigers

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The Raiders killed the Smith penalty, but the frustrations were already boiling. At 7:11 of the second period, a scrum ensued that saw the Raiders take 11 penalty minutes to the Tigers 14, but the Raiders powerplay failed again.

Then Benett Kelly took a cross checking penalty, and Kadon McCann deflected in a shot from Markus Ruck at 11:38.

Daxon Rudolph was then called for charging, bringing Ethan Bibeau for roughing afterwards along with Tigers defenceman Josh Van Mulligan, and the Tigers would score again at 12:31 thanks to a onetimer from the point by Bryce Pickford.

The Raiders then found a little bit of life when Brock Cripps blocked a shot in his own zone and sent the puck up ice for Max Heise, and he worked in from the right side on a partial breakaway and scored his 11th of the season at 13:05.

Just 18 seconds later though, the Tigers took it right back. On the rush, Yaroslav Bryzgalov found a cross ice pass for Jonas Woo who scored for his fourth point of the night at 13:33.

After 2: Raiders 1 – 7 Tigers, shots 9-8 Raiders, 18-17 Tigers overall

The third period was where the game went off the rails. At the 8:11 mark, Jonah Sivertson went behind the net and took out Tigers goaltender Jordan Switzer, and from there the scrum ensued. A total of 90 penalty minutes were handed out in the scrum that came after, 41 to the Raiders and 49 to the Tigers.

Then at 13:58, Jonas Woo crashed the net a little too hard and took a shot from Dimitri Fortin. Woo took exception, stood up, and quickly fired back at Fortin. Time for another scrum that resulted in a total of 34 penalty minutes handed to the Raiders and 12 to the Tigers, and Raiders goaltender Dimitri Fortin was ejected from the game after he broke one of the Tigers sticks after the play had ended, meaning Michal Orsulak had to finish the game after being pulled in the first.

FINAL: Raiders 1 – 7 Tigers, shots 12-8 Tigers, 30-25 Tigers overall

This is the first time this season the Raiders have lost two games in a row, both games in regulation, and both at the hands of the Medicine Hat Tigers.

A total of 194 penalty minutes were handed out in the game between the two teams. For the Raiders, they held the majority of them with 106 of those penalty minutes going to the Raiders.

The Raiders have Thursday off before their first three games in three nights stretch starting on Friday against the Calgary Hitmen.