Game Night Tonight: Red Deer
Head to Head
rThis will be the first of four meetings this season between the Red Deer Rebels and the Regina Pats. Last season saw the Pats take 3 of 4 games from the Rebels with 3 of the games going to a shootout. Damien Ketlo started and won both of the 2-1 shootout wins.
rThe Pats will be without Garrett Mitchell, he underwent surgery this morning, getting a pin screwed into his broken hand. He will be out for the next 4 to 6 weeks.
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2008-09 Against the Rebels:
rScoring: GP G A Pts
rVictor Bartley 4 1 4 5
rJordan Weal 4 1 4 5
rJordan Eberle 4 1 3 4
rMatt Strueby 4 3 0 3
rBrett Leffler 3 2 1 3
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Special Teams: 2008-09 Season Series:
rPower Play – 3/16 – 18.8% (0 shg against) Oct. 5th Red Deer 1 @ Regina 2 so
rPenalty Killing –20/23 – 87.0% (0 shg) Oct. 17th Regina 2 @ Red Deer 1 so
rOct. 31st Red Deer 5 @ Regina 4 so
rDec. 7th Regina 4 @ Red Deer 2
r2009-10 series:
rOct. 3rd/09 Red Deer @ Regina
rDec. 15th/09 Regina @ Red Deer
rFeb. 2nd/10 Red Deer @ Regina
rFeb. 12/10 Regina @ Red Deer
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rLast Action:
rThe Pats won their second in a row last night with a convincing 6-1 victory over the Swift Current Broncos. Jordan Eberle picked up 2 goals, while his line mates Brett Leffler and Jordan Weal also had multiple point night. Kyle Mulder, Killian Hutt and Matt Strueby also scored for the Pats while Dawson Guhle stopped 22 shots for his second win of the season
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The return of Jordan Eberle was the cure to the Pats offensive woes. On Wednesday night he came in and was put on a line with Jordan Weal and Brett Leffler and it was instant magic. The trio combined for 6 goals and 11 points in a 9-3 bombing of the Prince Albert Raiders. Jordan Weal picked up the hat trick, Brett Leffler had a goal and 3 assist, while Jordan Eberle had 2 goals and 2 assists. Also scoring for the blue and white was Matt Strueby, Killian Hutt and Brayden Metz. Damien Ketlo was a quiet story on the night, stopping 30 of 33 shots, including a pair of breakaways in the first period.
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Injury Report:
rGarrett Mitchell (Thumb) – 4-6 Weeks
rGames lost to injury – 7 games
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rRecent Transactions:
rSeptember 28th/09
rKillian Hutt acquired from Portland (2010 4th/Conditional 2011)
r3 Players designated for re-assignment
rLucas Froese (LW) – Winnipeg (MJHL)
rDominic Perrault (D) – Battlefords (SJHL)
rDerek Tendler (G) – Estevan (SJHL)
rSeptember 26th/09
rLinden Rowat traded to Lethbridge (5th rnd. Bntm. Pick)
rSeptember 24/09
r1 Player designated for re-assignment
rMitch Czibere (C) – To be determined
rSeptember 22nd/09
r1 Player assigned to Pats
rDerek Tendler (G) – Estevan (SJHL)
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Milestones:
r*Jordan Eberle is the active Pat career leader in points with 210. He is also the current active Pat career leader in goals (109), assists (101), points (210), game winning goals (23), power play goals (40) and shorthanded markers (8).
r*Brett Leffler scored his 60th career goal against Swift Current last night and 14 minutes away from 400 penalty minutes for his career
r*Matt Delahey is 6 games away from reaching the 200 games played.
r*Colten Teubert is 12 away from 400 career penalty minutes.
r*Garrett Mitchell is 10 games away from 150 in his WHL career.
r*Matt Strueby is 2 away from 40 career WHL goals
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Streaking:
r*Brett Leffler is on a 5 game point streak (3g 7a)
r*Jordan Weal is on a 4 game points streak (5g 2a)
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Eberle topping the charts:
r Jordan Eberle is currently the Pats active leader in goals with 107 for his Pat career. This puts him in a tie with Rhett Gordon (Pats 92-96) on the modern Pats all-time goal list (1966-present) just one goal back of Len Nielsen (82-87) and 2 back of Gary Dickie (85-89) and Rob Tudor (72-76). Eberle’s 210 points puts him past Jeff Shantz (89-93) and is now 4 points back of Darren Veitch (76-80) on the all time points list.
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Eberle’s Return:
rSince he missed the first 5 games of the season because of Edmonton Oiler training camp, Jordan Eberle is making up for lost time. He has 4 goals and 2 assists in his first two games back as a Regina Pat.
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Davidson Making a quiet impact:
rRookie defenceman, Brandon Davidson has flown under the radar on the Pats this season. He is the club leader in points by a defenceman with 5 (1g, 4a) which puts him in 7th in rookie scoring and tied for 9th defensive scoring.
rLeffler leads the way:
r20 year old forward, Brett Leffler, wants to go out with a bang…and so far so good. He is the club leader in assists (7), points (10) and plus/minus (7).
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Pats Specialty Teams
rOne of the strong points to the Pats play this season has been their ability to kill penalties. At 88.9%, they are the 6th best team in the WHL killing penalties. The unit has killed 30 of 45 penalties including a stellar 25 of 27 at home. While their power play unit has caught fire and is now in the top third of the WHL at 24.1%.
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Pats Acquire Hutt:
rMonday, the Regina Pats acquired RW Killian Hutt from the Portland Winterhawks in exchange for a 2010 4th round WHL Bantam pick and a conditional 2011 pick. Hutt is a solid offensive player who had 35 points on a Winterhawk team that struggled last season. Hutt scored in his first game as a Pat on Wednesday night.
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Pats in the NHL:
rThe National Hockey League season kicked off last night, and there were 10 former Pats on NHL rosters:
rDerek Morris (Pats 95-97) – Boston Bruins Brad Stuart (Pats 95-99) – Detroit Red Wings
rDerek Boogaard (Pats 99-00) – Minnesota Wild Josh Harding (Pats 01-04) – Minnesota Wild
rBarret Jackman (Pats 97-00) – St. Louis Blues Todd Fedoruk (Pats 97-99) – Tampa Bay Lightning
rColton Orr (Pats 02-03) – Toronto Maple Leafs Rick Rypien (Pats 01-05) – Vancouver Caucks
rBoyd Kane (Pats 94-98) – Washington Capitals Garnet Exelby (Pats 00-01) – Toronto Maple Leafs
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Team Make-up:
r16 Year Olds (93) – 2 (Bell, Borstmayer)
r17 Year Olds (92) – 6 (Slobozian, Favreau, Hood, Rieder, Weal, Guhle)
r18 Year Olds (91) – 9 (Davidson, Hutt, Pym, Sparrow, Gardiner, Mitchell, Mulder, Poletin, Ketlo)
r19 Year Olds (90) – 4 (Teubert, Eberle, Hricina, Metz)
r20 Year Olds (89) – 3 (Delahey, Strueby, Leffler)
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Leaders:
rGoals – Strueby/Weal (5) Assists – Brett Leffler (7)
rPoints – Brett Leffler (10) Plus/Minus – Leffler (7)
rPIM – Travis Sparrow (23) PPG – 7 tied (1)
rSHG – Eberle/Leffler (1) GWG – Strueby/Metz (1)
rWins – Dawson Guhle (1) GAA – Dawson Guhle (3.24)
rSv. % – Damien Ketlo (.905)
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Next 5 Games: (all times local) Last 5 Games:
rOct. 7th @ Moose Jaw 7:00 Oct. 2nd Regina 6 Swift Current 1 W
rOct. 9th v/ Calgary 7:00 Sept. 30th Regina 9 Prince Albert 3 W
rOct. 16th v/ Kamloops 7:00 Sept. 27th Saskatoon 4 Regina 1 L
rOct. 17th v/ Lethbridge 7:00 Sept. 25th Moose Jaw 5 Regina 4 L
rOct. 20th @ Prince Albert 7:00 Sept. 23rd Regina 4 Saskatoon 3 so W
