Super rookie Liam Pue scored the winning goal in overtime in his return to the lineup as the Regina Pats earned a 5-4 road victory over the Saskatoon Blades in WHL action on Tuesday.
Pue scored with 20 seconds left in the extra frame to cap off a three-point night. He had the primary assists on a Zachary Lansard power-play goal and a Samuel Karsay tally, both netted in the first period.
Ellis Mieyette and Maddox Schultz recorded Regina’s other two goals. Schultz also picked up a helper.
Pue and Schultz had been absent while captaining Canada’s two entries in the under-17 world championship in Oakville, Ont.
Taylor Tabashniuk made 31 saves as the Pats improved to 9-6-0-1.
Hayden Harsanyi scored twice in a losing effort for the Blades, who fell to 7-5-5.
Brayden Klimpke and Yegor Gusev completed the scoring for Saskatoon. Hunter Laing had three assists.
Martin Psohlavec made 22 saves in net.
Warriors pummelled in Kelowna
The Moose Jaw Warriors scored the first two goals against the Kelowna Rockets, but it was mostly downhill from there. They were defeated 8-5 in British Columbia.
Mathieu Lajoie scored the first of his two goals in the game to open the scoring 3:48 into the contest and Casey Brown put the Warriors up 2-0 before the midway point of the first period.
Rockets’ Jakub Frolo and Dylan Deets tied it up before the intermission, but Lajoie put the Warriors ahead just past the halfway point of the second. That lead was short-lived, though, as Kelowna took control.
Four straight goals from Frolo, Cole Braunshausen, Madden Daneault, and Dawson Gerwing put the Warriors down 6-3 by the 6:32 mark of the third period.
That three-goal margin held up by the final buzzer with Gage Nagel and Luke Moroz scoring for Moose Jaw, and Braunshausen and Ryan Oothoudt answering for the home side.
Dylan Mingo stopped 35 of the 43 shots he faced as the Warriors slid to 7-10-1. Linden Sobocan made 23 saves in the Rockets net. They’re now 7-3-4-3 on the campaign.
