REGINA — The wins just keep adding up for the Regina Pat Canadians.
As a result, Regina now has an 18-1-1-0 record and have moved six points clear of the Moose Jaw WINMAR Warriors for first place in the Sask Male AAA Hockey League, though Moose Jaw has three games in hand. Tisdale falls to 7-11-1-0 and are ninth in the 12-team league.
Regina 6, Tisdale 4
It was anything but an easy outing for the Pat Cs in the first game of the weekend, as a four-goal second period gave the Trojans a 4-2 lead through two periods.
Brady Vipond got the final frame rally started with a power play goal with 3:07 gone in the period and 42 seconds later Brodie Bowen scored shorthanded to make it a 4-4 game.
Cooper Bratton then scored his ninth of the season and the game winner with 8:01 remaining in the contest and Ethan Young added an insurance marker with 30 seconds to play.
Vipond scored the only goal of the first period as Regina took a 1-0 lead, Nathan Gardiner had Regina’s lone goal in the second.
Jacob Tait scored his 14th and 15th goals of the season for Tisdale in their big second period, with both markers coming on the power play. Dyden Ekstrom then made it a 3-2 game with his first of the campaign with 6:03 remaining and Preston Hoppe would finish things off with the Trojans third power play goal of the frame with 3:10 to play.
Adam Muntain had 28 saves to earn the win in Regina’s net, Jackson Dunn stopped 38 for Tisdale.
The Trojans once again made things interesting in Sunday’s rematch, as they scored a pair of goals to get within one with 6:45 remaining in the third period, only for Regina to score twice late to pull away for good.
Tisdale’s Logan Edwards and Regina’s Malaki Martin each scored power play goals in the first period as the teams left the opening frame with a 1-1 tie.
Bowen and Ryker Doka then scored two minutes apart late in the second period to give Regina a 3-1 lead through two, followed by Nathan Gardiner with his 17th of the season 30 seconds into the third for the three-goal edge.
Parker Salisbury then scored his first of the season for Tisdale at the 3:24 mark and Ramy Borowsky would make it a one-goal game 10 minutes later.
That set the stage for Grady Hodgins, who would add an insurance marker for the Pat Cs with 3:19 left on the clock and then pot a short-handed empty-netter with 1:46 remaining.
Ben Meyer stopped 26 shots to earn the win, Wyatt Fleischhacker stopped 35 for the Trojans.
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