Raiders finally beat the Pats in emotional home opener
On Friday, the Prince Albert Raiders did something they haven’t done in 728 days—beat the Regina Pats.
And did they ever make up for lost time with a 7-2 victory to kick off the regular season at the Art Hauser Centre—in front of their biggest home opener crowd (2,775) since the 2014-15 season.
“I guess you could say we were due,” Raiders head coach Marc Habscheid chuckled. “The odds were in our favour, I guess. It’s a new year and [the Pats] graduated a lot of players—they went for it last year. We like our team. We’re a fast team and it showed tonight.”
A guy not afraid to show his speed out there was Carson Miller, scoring a hat trick on Friday to lead the Raiders offensively. Just one game into the year, Miller has already tripled his goal total in 69 games a season ago.