Nightmare second does in Raiders against Broncos

Raiders D Nolan Allan, left, and Broncos C Mathew Ward chase the puck.

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A delete the video type second period did in the Prince Albert Raiders.

The Raiders went into the second frame of a WHL regular season contest locked in a 2-2 tie with the visiting Swift Current Broncos on Wednesday night. The Broncos rolled off three goals in the second period to power their way to a 6-3 victory to disappoint most of 2,146 spectators at the Art Hauser Centre.

Raiders 19-year-old centre Evan Herman said setbacks like the one his club experienced on Wednesday to the Broncos are tough to take. Both Raiders and Broncos are part of a group of five teams battling for the final two playoff berths in the WHL’s Eastern Conference.

Isaac Poulter, left, makes one of his 38 saves for the Broncos.

When it comes to the playoff race, Herman said you can feel the urgency in games like the one against the Broncos.

“These are four point games,” said Herman. “It is really tight in the standings.

“There is not much more to say than that. That was a must win for us. When you let that one go, it is even more of an uphill battle here to close in on the final stretch.”

The Raiders came into Wednesday’s gave having posted four wins and an overtime setback in their five previous outings. While the Prince Albert side had been rolling, Raiders head coach Marc Habscheid his squad came down to earth in the loss to the Broncos.

Kayden Sadhra-Kang scored the Broncos first goal on Wednesday.

“Sometimes you’ll get a thud,” said Habscheid. “Tonight was the thud I thought.

“I thought we were ready, but their pucks found a way in, and we made some just horrendous mistakes and ended up in our net.”

The opening 20 minutes of Wednesday’s contest were played in a back-and-forth fashion.

Raiders right-winger Niall Crocker had a chance early in the first to put the hosts ahead but he was stopped in alone in close by Broncos overage netminder Isaac Poulter.

Shortly past the midway point of the first, Broncos right-winger Raphael Pelletier wired a shot from the left boards off the post of the Prince Albert goal.

Evan Herman gave the Raiders a short-lived lead.

The Broncos broke through on the scoreboard at the 11:31 mark of the first. Pinching Broncos defenceman Kayden Sadhra-Kang fired home a shot from the left slot after collecting a rebound from a shot taken by Pelletier.

About two-and-a-half minutes later, the Raiders evened the score at 1-1, when left-winger Sloan Stanick potted his 18^th goal of the season off a net scramble.

With 4:14 remaining in the first, things got testy as Raiders centre Hayden Pakkala hit a Swift Current player from behind into the boards in the Broncos zone. Broncos defenceman Sam McGinley immediately came in and hit Pakkala from behind and a scrum ensued.

During the scrum, Poulter came into the scrum and grabbed a Raiders player.

Carter Stebbings scored the Broncos second goal on Wednesday.

Pakkala was given a major for checking from behind and a game misconduct. His major penalty will be automatically reviewed by the WHL office for a possible suspension.

McGinley was given a cross-checking minor and a 10-minute misconduct, and Poulter got a minor for leaving his crease.

On the ensuing Raiders four-versus-three power play, Herman one-timed a set up pass from offensive-defenceman Landon Kosior to give the hosts a 2-1 lead.

Just 44 seconds later, the Broncos evened the score at 2-2, when Swift Current right-winger Carter Stebbings fired home a power-play goal off a rush down the right wing on a five-on-four man advantage.

The Broncos celebrate the first of two Karson King (#18) goals.

“We made mistakes that we just can’t from older guys,” said Habscheid. “It is an interesting league, because in the NHL you get four or five years difference it is not a big deal, but in junior it is.

“It is a 19 and 20-year-old league, and you need those guys to play. We had some older guys that didn’t play worth a darn tonight. We need them.

“They have to play better.”

In the second, the Broncos hit high gear while the wheels fell off for the Raiders. Just over six minutes into the second, Broncos 17-year-old rookie right-winger Karson King scored two goals coming 11 second apart from each other to put the visitors up 4-2.

Max Hildebrand saw relief duty in goal for the Raiders.

The Raiders pulled import rookie netminder Tikhon Chaika after King’s second tally. Chaika turned away 8-of-12 shots fired his way to take the loss in goal for the Raiders (23-29-3-1). Max Hildebrand played the rest of the way in relief for the Raiders stopping 8-of-9 shots fired his way.

With 6:19 remaining in the second, the Broncos stuck for their second power-play goal of the contest. Standout Swift Current centre Mathew Ward fired home a shot from the right boards to extend the Broncos lead to 5-2.

Habscheid said the Raiders didn’t get the effort they needed from their goaltending or defence on Wednesday.

“He (Chaika) wasn’t very good,” said Habscheid. “Hilty (Max Hildebrand) let one in that wasn’t very good, and I thought four of our D were terrible to be quite honest.

Raphael Pelletier scored an empty-net goal for the Broncos.

“Two were real good. Out of the other four, one was really bad tonight. It was just not real good timing.”

Nolan Allan rounded out the Raiders scoring netting his fifth of the season with 3:16 remaining in the third. Pelletier closed out the Broncos scoring with an empty-net goal with 62 seconds remaining in the third.

Poulter turned away 38 shots to pick up the win in goal for the Broncos (21-30-5-2).

The Broncos get back at it on Friday when they host the Medicine Hat Tigers (7 p.m., Innovation Credit Union i-Plex).

The Broncos celebrate their win on Wednesday.

The Raiders are off until on Saturday when they host their archrivals the Saskatoon Blades (7 p.m., Art Hauser Centre). Herman is expecting his Raiders will have a strong bounce back effort against the Blades.

“They are our rival,” said Herman. “Every time we play our biggest rival, it should be pretty easy to get yourself psyched up for the game.

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Watterodt’s first career WHL goal seals Blades 4-1 win

Vaughn Watterodt (#18) celebrates his first career WHL goal.

Vaughn Watterodt delivered for his family.

Entering Saturday, the 17-year-old sophomore left-winger with the Saskatoon Blades was still in search of his first career WHL goal. With some special family members in among the 2,207 spectators in attendance at the SaskTel Centre, Watterodt scored that milestone tally in a very timely moment.

With the Blades holding on to a 2-1 edge over the visiting Swift Current Broncos in a WHL regular season clash, Watterodt netted his first career WHL goal with 2:51 remaining in the third period to extend the host side’s lead to 3-1. The marker was a nice one too, as Watterodt tipped home a point shot from centre Spencer Shugrue for the key insurance tally.

Spencer Shugrue puts a point shot on goal that gets tipped home.

The Blades cruised to a 4-1 victory from there.

Watterodt was pumped to get his first career WHL goal playing for the team he grew up cheering for. He is from Rosetown, Sask., which is located about 100-kilometres west of Saskatoon.

“It was really awesome,” said Watterodt, who was playing in his 31^st career WHL game. “I finally got the monkey off my back, and I was able to do it in front of my parents and my grandma.

“It was my first game my grandma got to see me play in the WHL, so it was really nice to be able to do that for her.”

Vaughn Watterodt (#18) reacts to scoring his first WHL goal.

Watterodt, who stands 5-foot-11 and weighs 181 pounds, started his WHL career with the Kamloops Blazers and came to the Blades in a trade back on December 2, 2021. He was skating in his 13^th career game with the Blades on Saturday.

On the play where he scored his milestone first goal, Watterodt decided to go to the net after he saw that Shugrue won a race to a loose puck at the right point spot in the Swift Current zone.

“I saw he (Shugrue) had time,” said Watterodt. “I just wanted to get to the net and create a screen on the goalie.

“I was able to tip that in, so it was nice.”

Watterodt’s goal helped the Blades prevail in a contest that was a fairly tight battle.

Having beaten the Broncos 6-4 in Swift Current on Friday night, the Blades got out to a good start in Saturday’s rematch that closed out a home-and-home series.

Kyle Crnkovic scored twice for the Blades on Saturday.

They opened the game’s scoring at the 6:41 mark of the opening frame thanks to a nice setup pass from 16-year-old defenceman Tanner Molendyk. Molendyk broke into the offensive zone on a rush and put a sweet pass across the face of the Swift Current to star left-winger Kyle Crnkovic, who tapped home his 20^th of the season to give the hosts a 1-0 lead.

The 19-year-old Crnkovic hit the 20-goal mark for the second time in his WHL career with the first of his two tallies on the night.

Shortly after that marker, the Blades had a couple of big chances to expand their lead working on the power play, but star 20-year-old centre Tristen Robins got stoned on two shots from the left slot by Broncos 20-year-old netminder Isaac Poulter.

Tanner Molendyk makes a nice setup pass on the Blades first goal.

On the Blades second power-play chance of the opening frame, Robins broke through from that left slot spot one-timing home his 18^th of the season on a setup pass from captain Aidan De La Gorgendiere. Robins’ marker increased Saskatoon’s advantage to 2-0.

Swift Current responded with a big push back period in the second.

At the 4:21 mark of the second, the Broncos cut the Blades lead to 2-1, when Swift Current right-winger Caleb Wyrostok snapped home a power-play close in at the left side of the Saskatoon goal.

The Broncos followed up that tally putting on a lot of pressure in the Saskatoon zone looking for the equalizer holding a 12-9 edge in shots on goal in the frame.

Tristen Robins had a goal and two assists for the Blades.

Blades star 20-year-old netminder Nolan Maier kept the visitor at bay.

Saskatoon head coach Brennan Sonne said his squad turned the puck over a little too much in the second period, which allowed the Broncos to carry the momentum for much of that stanza.

“What you have to do is not turn it over through the neutral zone and you have to make sure that when there are turnovers in the offensive zone that your (defence) are on the D-side of their stretch guys,” said Sonne. “We started in second period turning it over, so that just feeds into what their strengths are, which is that transition stretch – the line rush four game.

“We were much more responsible in the third.”

Caleb Wyrostok had the Broncos lone goal on Saturday.

In the third, the Blades were a lot more smart decisions when they had the puck and clamped things down defensively.

That set the stage for Watterodt to come through for his first career WHL goal to put the Blades up 3-1.

Maier said the rest of the Blades enjoyed seeing Watterodt collect his milestone marker.

“When anyone scores but especially when it is their first goal and it is someone who is close to the city, it makes it that more important,” said Maier. “I think we were all ecstatic for him.

Nolan Maier, right, made 28 saves in goal for the Blades.

“We’re just really pumped up for him right now.”

Following Watterodt’s goal, Maier came up with a big glove save on Broncos left-winger Josh Filmon to help take away the hopes the visitors had about making a miracle rally.

Crnkovic proceeded to pot his second of the contest and 21^st of the season into an empty net with 4.5 seconds remaining in the third to round out Saskatoon’s 4-1 victory.

Robins had a pair of assists to go with his goal.

Broncos C Mathew Ward sets to make a pass in the offensive zone.

Maier stopped 28 shots to pick up the win in goal for the Blades (19-14-1-1). Isaac Poulter turned away 21 of 24 shots to take the setback in net for the Broncos (13-17-4-1).

For the Blades, their clashes with the Broncos on Friday and Saturday were their first games since falling 4-1 at home to the Edmonton Oil Kings on January 1. The Blades played four games in six nights after returning from their WHL Christmas break and that stretch wrapped up with the loss to Edmonton.

The Blades ended up going into a pause period due to a number of their players testing positive for COVID-19 along with most of the rest of the WHL’s member clubs. That caused the Blades to have another extended break.

Aiden De La Gorgendiere had an assist on Saturday.

Sonne said his team’s schedule over the last four weeks had been weird, but it gave his players a lot of jump when it came time to play games again.

“Coming into it, I think that there was just a lot of gusto,” said Sonne. “The guys were sick of practising and just wanted to play, so they were tired of listening to us and tired of our drills.

“It was good to get back to work. It was good to get back playing. That is why we spend all the time preparing and practising and getting ourselves ready is to play games.

“It is nice to do that. It is nice that there are fans here. We’re excited to get back to the grind.”

Broncos D Daylen Weigel shields the puck from two Blades.

The Broncos are slated to return to action on Tuesday when they host the Winnipeg Ice (7 p.m., Innovation Credit Union i-Plex).

The Blades are scheduled to return to action on Friday when they host the Medicine Hat Tigers (7 p.m., SaskTel Centre).

Maier said his Blades will be looking to build off the wins over the Broncos in the upcoming encounter against the Tigers.

“I think we just have to focus on our game,” said Maier. “We have a certain style of play that we need to keep up with.

The Blades celebrate their win over the Broncos on Saturday.

“If we start stringing along those kind of games together, it is going to be very positive.”

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Raiders’ Habscheid sits alone in sixth for WHL coaching wins

Prince Albert downs Swift Current 4-2 for victory 549

Marc Habscheid mans the Raiders bench in September of 2019.

During his coaching career, Marc Habscheid is often showered with praise from his players that might be greater than any championships he’s won or the victories he’s piled up.

After being guided by Habscheid, it is common for players to refer to him as the best coach they’ve ever had. Players will also say they couldn’t imagine playing for another coach after being coached by Habscheid or it was hard at first to play for another coach after playing under Habscheid.

When players start playing for another coach, they will at times have a habit of comparing what that coach was doing to what Habscheid would do in various circumstances often concluding Habscheid would handle things better.

On Saturday in a bubble environment without fans in attendance at the Brandt Centre in Regina, Habscheid hit another milestone in his coaching career. When his Prince Albert Raiders doubled the Swift Current Broncos 4-2, Habscheid picked up his 549th head coaching win of his WHL regular season career.

The victory allowed Habscheid to move one win ahead of Ernie “Punch” McLean to sit alone in sixth spot on the WHL’s all-time career regular season wins list. McLean is best remembered for being the head coach of the rough and tumble New Westminster Bruins teams that won the Memorial Cup as CHL champions in 1977 and 1978.

Habscheid took up coaching in the 1996-97 season when he became the head coach and general manager of the Melfort Mustangs in the junior A Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. The Swift Current, Sask., product’s coaching career came right after a lengthy playing career.

Marc Habscheid sits sixth on the WHL’s career wins list.

From 1979 to 1982, Habscheid played one partial season and two full seasons as a star centre for the WHL’s Saskatoon Blades piling up 107 goals and 169 assists for 276 points in 148 career regular season games. He was a member of the Canada’s first ever gold medal winning team at world juniors in the 1981-82 season.

In the 1981 NHL Entry Draft, he was selected in the sixth round and 113^th overall by the Edmonton Oilers, who had stars like Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier.

Habscheid played seven games with the Oilers in 1981-82 and would earn a full-time spot in the professional ranks the next season. His NHL stops included spending time with the Oilers, Minnesota North Stars, Detroit Red Wings and Calgary Flames.

Habscheid played his final professional season with the Augsberger Panther in 1995-96 before joining the Mustangs as head coach and general manager.

After one season with the Mustangs, Habscheid moved up to the WHL ranks as head coach and general manager of the Kamloops Blazers in 1997-98. During his career in the WHL, Habscheid would also serve stints as the head coach and general manager of the Kelowna Rockets and the Chilliwack Bruins/Victoria Royals franchise.

In Kelowna, Habscheid led the Rockets to a WHL title in the 2002-03 campaign and a Memorial Cup title as the tournament hosts in 2003-04. 

Marc Habscheid has coached with four different WHL franchises.

In the 2004 WHL playoffs, the Rockets advanced to the Western Conference Championship series before falling in a series deciding Game 7 to the Everett Silvertips, who were skating through a Cinderella expansion season.

Habscheid was hired as the Raiders head coach on November 1, 2014 as a midseason replacement for Cory Clouston.

When Curtis Hunt became the Raiders general manager before the start of the 2015-16 campaign, Hunt and Habscheid became a hockey power couple. They restored the luster of the Raiders franchise to a level that hadn’t been seen in some time.

Under their watch, the Raiders would finish first overall in 2018-19 WHL regular season standings with a 54-10-2-2 record. The Raiders advanced on to win their second WHL title in team history on Dante Hannoun’s epic Game 7 overtime winner in the WHL Championship series at the Art Hauser Centre.

Hannoun’s winner in May of 2019 gave the Raiders a 3-2 victory in Game 7 over the Vancouver Giants that will live forever in the hearts of the Raiders faithful.

In all of Habscheid’s coaching stops, the players he coach always turned out to be first class citizens. His teams won with class and lost with class, and it should be noted that winning was often the norm.

Curtis Hunt, left, and Marc Habscheid have made the Raiders go.

On the ice, the biggest thing he did was allow his players the play the roles they were suited for. Skilled players who scored were skilled players who scored and were encouraged to execute creative plays.

Defensive players played defence. In goal, Habscheid’s netminders usually had the confidence to shine in big moments.

Overall, Habscheid instilled confidence in his player that they could accomplish big things as long as they focused on getting better every day. He also makes coming to the rink enjoyable.

In Saturday’s win over the Broncos, the Raiders received an inspired performance from overage power forward Justin Nachbaur, who had a goal, two assists and engaged in a first period fight with Broncos overager defenceman Kaleb Bulych.

The goal, assist and the fight allowed Nachbaur to pick up the “Gordie Howe hat trick” for the night.

Dallyn Peekeekoot, who is a 16-year-old rookie centre from the Ahtahkakoop First Nation in Saskatchewan, scored his first career WHL goal tallying 67 seconds into the first period to give the Raiders a 1-0 lead.

After Broncos defenceman Sam McGinley evened things up at 1-1 at the 15:46 mark of the opening frame, Nachbaur scored with 2:50 remaining in the first to put the Raiders up 2-1.

Justin Nachbbaur had a “Gordie Howe hat trick” on Saturday.

Overage centre Spencer Moe scored early in the second to increase the Raiders advantage to 3-1.

Broncos rookie right-winger Josh Filmon, who turned 17-years-old in March, scored on a breakaway early in the third to cut the Raiders lead to 3-2.

Raiders veteran centre Eric Pearce sealed the 4-2 win scoring into an empty net with 47.5 seconds remaining in the third.

Overage netminder Max Paddock made 19 saves to pick up the win in goal for the Raiders (4-6-2). Veteran 19-year-old netminder Isaac Poulter turned away 22-of-25 shots to take the setback in goal for the Broncos (3-8-1).

Star centre Ozzy Wiesblatt picked up three assists for the Raiders, while 19-year-old veteran centre Reece Vitelli had a pair of helpers.

The Raiders return to action on Monday in the Regina bubble against the Brandon Wheat Kings (8 p.m., 900 CKBI).

The bubble environment is being utilized due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has gripped the world.

So far during the shortened 24-game developmental 2020-21 campaign, the Raiders have dealt with a rash of injuries. They also weren’t able to bring in bring veteran Belarusian forward Aliaksei Protas and Belarusian forward newcomer Vladislav Shyla to Canada due to how the COVID-19 pandemic has played out.

Marc Habscheid raises the Ed Chynoweth Cup in May 2019.

With all that noted, Habscheid has the patience to allow newcomers to learn and grow playing in the WHL. While he will be challenging and providing road maps for ways that players can improve and be better, Habscheid knows there will bumps in the road and won’t panic.

When the developmental season comes to an end, you can bet the Raiders players will depart for their respective homes believing they had never played for a better coach.

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Great Scott – Veteran goalie sets new Raiders shutout record

The Raiders congratulation G Ian Scott on his team shutouts record.

    PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. – It was a night where he wasn’t overly busy, but Ian Scott was the man of the moment for the Prince Albert Raiders.

    The fourth-year veteran goalie made 14 saves to pick up a shutout as the Raiders thumped the Swift Current Broncos 8-0 on Friday night before a standing room crowd of 2,848 spectators at the 2,580 seat Art Hauser Centre. The shutout was the seventh of the campaign for Scott, who set a new Raiders team record for most shutouts in one regular season.

    The old record of six shutout was first set by Rejean Beauchemin in the 2003-04 campaign. Luke Siemens equaled that mark of six shutouts in the 2012-13 season before Scott set a new standard on Friday.

Netminder Ian Scott gets focused for the third period on Friday.

    “It is a pretty cool accomplishment,” said Scott, who played for Canada at the last world juniors. “It wouldn’t have happened this season without the team in front of me.

    “A lot of thanks goes towards them for shutting it down tonight and making it two in a row.”

    Back on Tuesday, Scott made 24 saves to equal the Raiders record for most shutouts in a season in a 6-0 victory also over the Broncos at the Art Hauser Centre.

    The win on Friday allowed the Raiders to improve their WHL leading record to 52-9-2-2. Scott, who turned 20-years-old in early January, has been a big part of what has been an outstanding season for the Raiders.

Captain Brayden Pachal had a goal and an assist on Friday.

    In 46 appearances with the Raiders this season, Scott has posted a 36-7-3 record, a 1.86 goals against average and a .932 save percentage to go with his seven shutouts.

    Having joined the Raiders as a 16-year-old rookie back in 2015-16, Scott admits he is amazed by how far his career has come. He said it has been great he has been able to enjoy the ride with some long time teammates, who help make up the core of the Raiders.

    “I think it is pretty crazy,” said Scott, who stands 6-foot-3 and weighs 183 pounds. “The past few seasons probably weren’t the strongest.

    “Just coming in this season, I think it is a real eye opener about a lot of personal things I have worked on, and I think it has helped.

    “I share a lot of those moments with Parker (Kelly). (Zack) Hayes I’ve been with since like midget. It is pretty special as a team I think.”

    Scott’s shutout on Friday proved to be more of a mental challenge than a physical one, because he didn’t see a whole lot of shots on goal. He kept his concentration up despite going long stretches of time without seeing any action.

Ian Scott made 14 saves for his record shutout win on Friday.

    With the Raiders holding a comfortable 7-0 lead after 40 minutes, team captain and veteran defenceman Brayden Pachal said attention increased towards helping Scott get the record. Prince Albert allowed only two shots on goal over the final 20 minutes of Friday’s contest.

    “It is one of those things we talked about it during the second intermission,” said Pachal, who had a goal, two assists and was a plus-four in the plus-minus department in Friday’s win. “We wanted to get that for him.

    “It seems like whenever we don’t talk about him getting a shutout he doesn’t get it. It is one of those things it might be a jinx for some guys, but not for him. He definitely locks it down.”

    Pachal was pumped to see Scott get the Raiders regular season shutouts record.

Brett Leason scored twice for the Raiders on Friday.

    “It is pretty awesome,” said Pachal. “He (Scott) has had a phenomenal season.

    “He has been our backbone back there, so it was going to happen. I was just a matter of time, so it was good on him.”

    Raiders head coach Marc Habscheid said that Scott wasn’t tested during the team’s last two games like in some of the other shutouts veteran puck stopper has had. With that said, Habscheid said you can never discount the work that goes into getting a shutout, and he was happy to see Scott get the team record for most shutouts in one season.

    “A shutout is a shutout,” said Habscheid. “He (Scott) is an important guy for us.

    “He has been that all year. You could tell the guys were doing what they had to do to help him out in that regard tonight for sure.”

Spencer Moe had a goal for the Raiders on Friday.

    The Raider built a 4-0 lead in the first period scoring on their second and third shots on goal in the process. They proceeded to cruise to victory from that point.

    Brett Leason and Parker Kelly each scored twice for the Raiders, while Noah Gregor, Cole Fonstad and Spencer Moe had singles.

    Isaac Poulter, who is a 17-year-old rookie, turned away 40 shots to take the setback in goal for the Broncos. The Broncos, who are going through a major rebuild after winning the WHL championship last season, fell to 10-47-4-2 to continue to sit last in the league.

    “It was a tough game,” said Habscheid. “They’re rebuilding, and they just know it is tough to play at that time of the year for them.

Cole Fonstad had a goal for the Raiders on Friday.

    “I thought our guys played real good. We started off good, and we had good tempo. Our structure was good.”

    The Broncos return to action on Saturday when they travel to Saskatoon to take on the Blades (7 p.m., SaskTel Centre).

    The Raiders hit the ice again on Sunday when they travel to Swift Current to face the Broncos (4 p.m., Innovation Credit Union i-Plex).

    Scott said he will always look fondly on Friday’s game, because he set a new Raiders team record for must shutouts in one season. With that said, he wants to help his team earn bigger accomplishments in the post-season.

Parker Kelly, left, and Brayden Pachal mark the Raiders win on Friday.

    “I will always remember it, but I think we have bigger things moving forward to focus on,” said Scott, who has a signed NHL entry level contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs. “I think that is all our goal.”

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