Pats Host Hurricanes in First Afternoon Home Game

October 16, 2022 – Western Hockey League (WHL) – Regina Pats News Release

Regina, Sask. – The Regina Pats host the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. inside the Brandt Centre, sponsored by CIBC.

The Pats come in with a 6-4 record, riding a three game winning-streak while also winners of four of their last five contests.

The Regiment is coming off a 4-3 victory over the Swift Current Broncos on Friday, improving to 2-0 in the season series. Connor Bedard’s second of the game was the go-ahead goal with eight seconds left in the third period, securing his fourth game winning goal of the season and ninth overall. The Pats also got goals from Easton Armstrong and Sam Oremba who scored his first with the Pats. Tanner Howe also totaled three helpers, reaching 50 assists in his WHL career.

The final shots were 34-26 for the Pats and 13-4 in the third period. Regina went 1-7 on the power play and 0-1 on the penalty kill.

Meanwhile, on the other side, the Lethbridge Hurricanes are coming off a 4-3 loss in Moose Jaw on Saturday, dropping their second straight contest. They are coming off a 33-30-4-1 regular season last year, finishing with 71 points which was good for seventh in the Eastern Conference standings, making the playoffs for a sixth straight season. In the 2021-22 postseason, the Hurricanes were swept by the Edmonton Oil Kings who later went onto win the league championship.

Match Up

Lethbridge Regina

Team Record 3-5-0-0 – 6 points 6-4-0-0 – 12 points

Division Ranking 4th Central 2nd East

Conference Ranking 8th Eastern 3rd Eastern

League Ranking 15th 6th

Past 10 Games 3-5-0-0 6-4-0-0

Streak 0-2-0-0 3-0-0-0

Last Game 4-3 L @ Moose Jaw (Oct 15 2022) Final 4-3 W @ Swift Current (Oct 14 2022) Final

Home Record 2-1-0-0 2-2-0-0

Away Record 1-4-0-0 4-2-0-0

GF 16 35

GA 31 34

PP (Overall) (6/37) 16.2% (7/42) 16.7%

PP (Home) (3/15) 20.0% (2/17) 11.8%

PP (Away) (3/22) 13.6% (5/25) 20.0%

PK (Overall) (13/43) 69.8% (8/44) 81.8%

PK (Home) (4/17) 76.5% (2/14) 85.7%

PK (Away) (9/26) 65.4% (6/30) 80.0%

PP vs. Opp. (0/0) 0% (0/0) 0%

PK vs. Opp. (0/0) 0% (0/0) 0%

Leading Rookie Chadwick (1-2-3) (0-0-0)

Most PIM Jones – 15 Bedard – 20

Team PIM/GM 14.0/Game 13.4/Game

Leading Scorers Shepard (3-2-5) Bedard (9-10-19)

McCutcheon (0-5-5) Howe (5-8-13)

Wormald (2-2-4) Valis (3-6-9)

Thacker (1-3-4) Suzdalev (5-3-8)

Astashevich (2-1-3) Armstrong (4-3-7)

Last 5 Games 4-3 L @ Moose Jaw (Oct 15 2022) Final 4-3 W @ Swift Current (Oct 14 2022) Final

4-1 L vs Winnipeg (Oct 12 2022) Final 3-0 W vs Prince Albert (Oct 12 2022) Final

3-1 W vs Prince Albert (Oct 8 2022) Final 4-3 W vs Swift Current (Oct 8 2022) Final

5-0 L @ Red Deer (Oct 7 2022) Final 5-2 L vs Winnipeg (Oct 7 2022) Final

3-0 L @ Prince Albert (Oct 5 2022) Final 3-1 W @ Brandon (Oct 5 2022) Final

Leading After 1st 1-1-0-0 4-0-0-0

Leading After 2nd 3-0-0-0 5-0-0-0

Tied After 1st 2-2-0-0 1-1-0-0

Tied After 2nd 0-2-0-0 1-2-0-0

Trailing After 1st 0-2-0-0 1-3-0-0

Trailing After 2nd 0-3-0-0 0-2-0-0

Out Shooting Opponents 1-1-0-0 5-2-0-0

Out Shot by Opponents 2-3-0-0 1-2-0-0

1 Goal Games 1-1-0-0 3-1-0-0

2 Goal Games 2-0-0-0 1-1-0-0

3 Goal Games 0-2-0-0 2-1-0-0

WHERE TO WATCH/LISTEN

Radio: 620ckrm.com

Stream: WHL Live

HEAD TO HEAD (0-0-0-0)

The Pats are 88-73-4-7-1 vs. the Hurricanes all-time, going 51-25-4-5-1 at home & 37-48-0-2-0 on the road.

Date Home Away Time Result

October 16th Regina Lethbridge 4:00 p.m. MDT

February 3rd Lethbridge Regina 7:00 p.m. MST

February 20th Regina Lethbridge 2:00 p.m. CST

March 10th Lethbridge Regina 7:00 p.m. MST

It’s the first of four meetings this season between the Pats and Hurricanes. Last year, the Pats played the Hurricanes six games, going 3-2-1-0 in the season series (2-1 on road / 1-1-1 at home). The Pats are 4-9-1 against the Hurricanes over their last 14 meetings. The Pats went 0-4 in the 2019-20 season series, outscored 18-to-8. Are 3-4 over the last six road games in Lethbridge and 2-6-1 over their last nine home matchups.

2021-22 SEASON SERIES

11/13 vs. LET – L, 6-1

11/24 at LET – OTW, 3-2

2/4 at LET – L, 5-4

3/5 vs. LET – OTL, 5-4

3/11 vs. LET – W, 4-3

3/16 at LET – W, 6-4

HEADLINES

Today marks the first afternoon home game of the season for the Pats. The Pats will play eight afternoon home games this season. Last year the Pats went 3-4-1 in day games.

Connor Bedard netted his fourth game winning goal of the season and 11th over his WHL career. Five of his nine goals this season have been to tie or take the lead for the Pats.

Tanner Howe also totaled three assists on Friday in Swift Current, recording his 50th career helper. He now has 85 career points in 82 WHL games.

Cole Dubinsky recorded an assist on Friday, bringing him within one point of 100 in his WHL career. He is now two games away from 200.

BY THE NUMBERS

2: Two Pats goaltenders have posted a .900+ save percentage to start the season, as Matthew Kieper sits with a .926 SV% over three starts (2-1-0) and Drew Sim holds a .913 SV% in five starts (5-0-0).

14: Total points for Tanner Howe this season (5G-9A)…the Prince Albert, Sask. product is currently on a three game point-streak (2G-5A), having recorded three straight multi-point games. He has also recorded at least a point in seven of 10 games this season.

19: Number of points (9G-10A) in 10 games for Pats captain Connor Bedard leads the WHL, while his nine goals are first, and his 10 assists are tied for the league lead…the North Vancouver, BC product is on a nine game point-streak, with all 19 points over his last nine games.

70: Shots on net in 10 games this season for Connor Bedard leads the WHL, as he is averaging 7.0 per-game, while he averaged 5.25 shots on net per game last year, with 326 shots in 62 games, leading the league…the next closest in shots is Austin Roest of Everett with 37.

81.8%: Penalty kill percentage this season, which is tied for ninth in the WHL…the club has gone 12-14 over their last five games, after giving up at least one short-handed in five previous games.

COMING UP

7:00 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 20 Regina Pats (6-4-0-0) at Moose Jaw Warriors (5-4-0-0)

7:00 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 23 Moose Jaw Warriors (5-4-0-0) at Regina Pats (6-4-0-0)

7:00 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 29 Everett Silvertips (6-2-0-0) at Regina Pats (6-4-0-0)

4:00 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 30 Tri-City Americans (2-5-0-0) at Regina Pats (6-4-0-0)

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