Prince Albert, Sask – The Prince Albert Raiders scored 4 3rd period goals in a 7-5 win over the Kootenay ICE in WHL action on Friday night.
The loss ended the ICE winning streak at 6 games and the road winning streak at 7 game.
Mark McNeill led the attack with 3 goals and 2 assists.
For the first time in 7 games the ICE gave up the 1st goal of the game.
The only time they had trailed in a game during their 6-game winning streak was in Prince George.
The last time the ICE trailed after the 1st period was October 18th in Medicine Hat.
In the second period the ICE scored 4 goals in 6 minutes to take a 4-1 lead.
Dylan McKinlay scored on the powerplay on a behind the net feed from Jesse Ismond and scored from in close with a wrist shot high on the glove side.
Levi Cable got his 1st career goal with a backhand shot from the top of the crease that went through the goalies legs.
After Drew Czerwonka came out of the penalty box he set up Max Reinhart on a 3-on-2 break and scored with a wrist shot on the glove side.
The ICE scored 6 seconds into a powerplay as Sam Reinhart found Brock Montgomery at the top of the crease for a redirection.
After the Raiders made it 4-2 the ICE scored 1 second after a powerplay ended with Jagger Dirk’s point shot deflected by Adam Rossignol.
ICE led 5-3 after 2 periods.
The teams combined for 7 goals in the period which is the most in a period in an ICE game this year and also happened in the 2nd period in Kamloops
Raiders sscored 2 goals early in the 3rd period and the ICE changed goalies with Nathan Lieuwen replacing Mackenzie Skapski.
It’s the first time the ICE have changed goalies in a game all season.
Skating 4-on-4 the Raiders took a 6-5 lead on a breakaway by Mark McNeill is the 1st player to score a hattrick against the ICE this season.
Brock Montgomery extended his goal streak to 4 games which ties Max Reinhart and Sam reinhart for the longest goal streak of the season.
Max Reinhart extended his point streak to 8 games.
Sam Reinhart extended his assist/point streak to 7 games, the Franchise Record is 8 games.
Going into the game the combination of the 6 players of the 3rd and 4th lines had Prince Albert with 5 goals (all from Jonas Knutsen) and the ICE with 26 goals. (Benoit 8, Rossignol 5, Montgomery 8, Hurley 1, McKinlay 4)
Jagger Dirk scored his 1st career goal on January 23/10 in Prince Albert against Jamie Tucker.
Max Reinhart tied a Franchise Record with a 4-goal game on December 8/10 in Prince Albert against Jamie Tucker.
The ICE will visit Moose Jaw on Saturday.
ICE Scratches – Simpson, Descheneau, Martin.
Game Summary
Prince Albert 7-21-1-1 Kootenay 19-6-1-2
1st Period
1, Prince Albert, Maylan 14 10:10.
Penalties-No Penalties
2nd Period
2, Kootenay, McKinlay 5 (Ismond, Pearce), 3:50 (PP).
3, Kootenay, Cable 1 (Paulsen, Hurley), 5:32.
4, Kootenay, M.Reinhart 16 (Czerwonka, Leach), 8:31.
5, Kootenay, Montgomery 9 (S.Reinhart, Czerwonka), 10:02 (PP).
6, Prince Albert, McNeill 10 (Tochkin), 10:46.
7, Kootenay, Rossignol 6 (Dirk, Benoit), 15:24.
8, Prince Albert, Tochkin 6 (Hlinka, McNeill), 17:50.
Penalties-Ruopp P.a (holding), 3:10; Czerwonka Ktn (tripping), 6:19; Ruopp P.a (checking from behind), 9:56; Tochkin P.a (tripping), 13:24.
3rd Period
9, Prince Albert, Tochkin 7 (McNeill, Hlinka), 1:08.
10, Prince Albert, McNeill 11 (Ruopp), 2:25 (SH).
11, Prince Albert, McNeill 12 12:11.
12, Prince Albert, Hlinka 1 (Maylan, Yaworski), 16:40.
Penalties-Bourhis P.a (cross checking), 2:09; Neibrandt Ktn (interference), 10:21; Winther P.a (high sticking), 11:19.
Shots on Goal-Kootenay 13-14-7-34. Prince Albert 11-9-14-34.
Power Play Opportunities-Kootenay 2 / 5; Prince Albert 0 / 2.
Goalies-Kootenay, Skapski 5-1-0-0 (23 shots-18 saves); Lieuwen 14-5-1-2 (11 shots-9 saves). Prince Albert, Williams 6-14-1-1 (34 shots-29 saves).
A-2,499
Referees-Adam Byblow (23), Colin Watt (72).
Linesmen-Jason Bourdon (108), Chris Carlson (92).