Prince Albert successfully navigates first
down stretch
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| The Raiders overcame a tough stretch of three straight losses. |
That includes teams having great, good, middle of the road or rebuilding seasons. Even for teams that are having great seasons, it is inevitable they will hit the wall at some point in time. All teams don’t want to hit the wall, but eventually a club will just come out flat no matter what anyone on that squad tries to do to prevent that from happening.
The Prince Albert Raiders, who lead the WHL’s East Division with a 19-4-4 mark, just hit one of those down stretches. They also ensured the down stretch didn’t last long. Actually, it has to be taken as a great accomplishment that the Raiders played into late November before hitting a wall.
The down stretch started seemingly out of the blue on November 29, when the Raiders were hosting the Medicine Hat Tigers at the Art Hauser Centre. With the teams locked in a 2-2 tie and 1:37 remaining on the clock, Raiders defenceman Linden Burrett went to clear the puck out of his own zone, and the puck deflected off the skate of Tigers centre Kadon McCann, flipped high in the air and deflected off the shoulder of Raiders star import netminder Michal Orsulak into the Prince Albert net.
This column of mine appeared in the Prince Albert Daily Herald. To read the full article, feel free to click right here.
