November 15, 2025 – Healthcare Workers

❤️‍🩹 All healthcare workers receive a discounted Wild Zone, Blue Zone or General Admission ticket when displaying proof of employment (badge, business card, etc.)!
*Walk-Up Special Only*

 

👶 KIDS IN FREE – 100 free kids’ tickets available thanks to Columbia Valley Community Health!

KNOW YOUR FOE:

Prince Albert found itself in a battle with Seattle on Friday, edging the Thunderbirds 5-4 in overtime, with a topsy-turvy finish in Kent – Brock England and Coster Dunn scored in the first period to put Seattle ahead 2-0 at the recess, but Prince Albert answered back with an Aiden Oiring goal 59 seconds out of the break, and tied the game on a power play goal from Daxon Rudolph at 3:59. Jackson Kostiuk’s goal halfway through the period put the Raiders in front going to the third, but Seattle grabbed the lead back on a goal at 4:40 from Antonio Martorana and a power play marker from Sawyer Mayes just past the halfway mark of the period. Oiring’s goal with 1:09 to play tied the game, and the teams went without a shot in overtime until Linden Burrett’s game-winner three-and-a-half minutes in. Oiring added an assist to his two goals, and Dimitri Fortin made 40 saves in the Raider victory. Prince Albert was the WHL’s last team to lose a regulation game, at Tri-City last Saturday. The Raiders wrap up their U.S. Division trip this evening with a group that likes to get control early in the game – they are 11-0-1-0 when scoring first, and have won 12 of 13 when taking the lead to the third period.

 

THERE’S GOLD IN THEM THAR MEDALS:

Boston Tait returned Friday after being called to join Canada’s best Under-17 players as part of last week’s World U17 Hockey Challenge in Truro, Nova Scotia. Canada Red’s alternate captain cranked out six assists in the weeklong event, with four in the quarterfinals against Sweden, helping his team claim a gold medal with a 6-3 win over Canada White last Saturday. This year marks the second straight that the two Canadian teams have faced off for gold, and the fourth in a row in which at least one Canadian teams has medaled. Tait was one of 19 WHL players chosen for the tourney.

 

TRADING SPACES:

After a severe bite from the injury bug, the Wild acquired Nolan Caffey from the Everett Silvertips and Zane Torre from the Red Deer Rebels this week. Affiliate players Nathan Crellin from the Calgary Flames U18 team and Devin Pelletier of the CSSHL’s South Alberta Hockey Academy made their WHL debuts Friday as well. Six Wenatchee forwards, accounting for 22 of the team’s first 40 goals of the season, were out of the lineup at Portland on Friday. Torre and Silaban buried their first WHL goals, bringing the total to seven Wild players who have scored their first WHL goals with the club this year. Grady Wedman contributed his first WHL goal to the Wenatchee cause in Tuesday’s loss at Seattle.

 

1,412^th NIGHT:

Wenatchee head coach Don Nachbaur made history last night, breaking the WHL record as its longest-tenured coach by coaching his 1,412^th game in the league and passing longtime Portland Winterhawks bench boss Ken Hodge’s record in the same Veterans Memorial Coliseum where Hodge set numerous records of his own and won 742 WHL games, helping the Winterhawks claim two Memorial Cups.