Prince Albert pumps Portland 4-0
It was a night of first’s in Portland.
Vojtech Budik scored his first WHL goal. Brendan Guhle scored in his first game back from the Buffalo Sabres captain Tim Vanstone and Dylan Stewart scored thier first goals of the season and Rylan Parenteau recorded his first WHL shutout as the Raiders posted their first road win of the season with a 4-0 victory over the Winterhawks.
The Raiders created momentum by killing off a 5-on-3 Portland power play for :51 while the game was still scoreless but it didn’t stay that way for long. Budik blasted home his first WHL goal from the high slot converting a give-and-go with Simon Stransky. The goal by the Czech import late in the first period stood up as the winner.
It stayed that way until Brendan Guhle’s wrap-around goal just shy of the 15-minute of the second period. After a simple and cautious first period the Buffalo Sabres prospect who was reassigned Monday jumped into the rush much more often in the second and third periods.