Pats drop their 1st of a 5 game road trip
Regina, Saskatchewan – Tonight was the debut of a pair of three Pats: Carter Ashton, Craig Orfino, who was acquired from the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Wednesday and Shamus Graham, who was just called up from Alberta Midget. It was the Tigers hitting the scoreboard first as Wacey Hamilton notched his 10th of the season at the 5:52 mark. Just 1:05 later, the Pats tied the game with Hampus Gustafsson smoking a slap shot into the top corner for his 9th goal of the season. Shamus Graham picked up an assist on that goal on his first WHL shift. 1:13 after that, the Pats made is 2-1 with Jordan Eberle putting on a show, dancing around the Tiger defence and tucking home his 29th of the campaign. The Tigers knotted the game a 2 with a 5-on-3 power play goal from Mark Isherwood.
rThe second was all Tigers with Mark Isherwood notching his second on the power play and 5 minutes later Bretton Cameron picked up his 25th of the season to make it 4-2 Tigers after 40 minutes.
rThe third was yet again all Tigers with three more goals picked up Gal, Konan and McKay to make the final 7-2.
rTonight was the final game in 2009 for Colten Teubert and Jordan Eberle as they embark on their second trek towards a World Junior Gold Medal. They will be in Regina tonight for the beginning of training camp.
rThe Pats will be back in action tomorrow night in Lethbridge, an 8:00 puck drop with a 7:35 pre-game show on 620 CKRM.
rMolson Cup 3 Stars –
r3 – Gal
r2 – Coyle
r1 – Hamilton
rTaylor Toyota Hardest Working Pat – Craig Orfino
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rRegina Pats 2 At Medicine Hat Tigers 7 – Status: In Progress (0:00 remaining in 3rd)
rDec 11, 2009 – Medicine Hat Arena
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Regina 2 0 0 – 2
rMedicine Hat 2 2 3 – 7
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1st Period-1, Medicine Hat, Hamilton 10 (Coyle, Vey), 5:52. 2, Regina, Gustafsson 7 (Graham, Leffler), 6:57. 3, Regina, Eberle 29 8:26. 4, Medicine Hat, Isherwood 9 (Coyle, Gal), 16:40 (pp). Penalties-MacKay M.h (inter. on goaltender), 2:05; Delahey Reg (roughing), 8:26; Graham Reg (slashing), 14:47; Leffler Reg (delay of game), 14:52; Delahey Reg (instigator, major-fighting, game misconduct), 18:38; Kessy M.h (checking from behind, checking from behind, major-fighting), 18:38.
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2nd Period-5, Medicine Hat, Isherwood 10 (Gal, Hamilton), 7:32 (pp). 6, Medicine Hat, Cameron 25 (Hamilton), 12:28. Penalties-Strueby Reg (tripping), 4:46; Eberle Reg (hooking), 5:55; McKay M.h (inter. on goaltender), 8:51; Kessy M.h (hooking), 14:11; Konan M.h (roughing), 17:42.
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3rd Period-7, Medicine Hat, Gal 9 (Hamilton, Coyle), 7:12 (pp). 8, Medicine Hat, Konan 2 (Cameron, Hamilton), 7:50. 9, Medicine Hat, McKay 1 (Kundratek, Petryk), 8:17. Penalties-Eberle Reg (elbowing), 0:28; Sparrow Reg (cross checking), 4:28; MacKay M.h (usc diving), 4:28; Bell Reg (cross checking), 6:47; Mitchell Reg (10-minute misconduct), 10:19; Teubert Reg (major-fighting, 10-minute misconduct, game misconduct), 10:19; Kessy M.h (10-minute misconduct), 10:19; Vey M.h (hooking), 12:06; Coyle M.h (slashing, 10-minute misconduct), 13:51; Cameron M.h (tripping), 16:51; Orfino Reg (major-fighting), 17:45; Carr M.h (major-fighting), 17:45.
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Shots on Goal-Regina 11-14-0-25. Medicine Hat 18-7-3-28.
rPower Play Opportunities-Regina 0 of 7; Medicine Hat 3 of 8.
rGoalies-Regina, Ketlo 11-8-2-0 (28 shots-21 saves). Medicine Hat, Bunz 15-8-2-2 (25 shots-23 saves).
rA-4,006
rReferees-Greg Sarauer (68), Ryan Thompson (6).
rLinesmen-Andrew Barker (108), Bobby Bedingfield (21).
