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| The Raiders celebrate a goal earlier this season at home. |
After starting the 2024-25 campaign with a loss and a win, the Raiders proceeded to go winless over their next six outings with an overtime setback and five regulation losses. In all but one of those games in that skid, the Raiders, who are 1-5-2 entering play on Tuesday, have been one or two plays away from gaining victory.
They kind of mirror what the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders went through earlier this year, when the ’Riders went through a seven game winless skid where they were one or two plays away from victory in most of those outings. Saskatchewan’s CFL side currently rides a four game winning streak and has clinched the right to host a home playoff game.
For the Raiders, you look over their game footage, and you have to conclude a solid effort is there every night. The wins just aren’t coming. They are going through the growing pains and mistakes that come with hitting the ice with a younger roster.
Also, the Raiders changed things up a bit with trades in the off-season, and it seems like the team is searching for an identity early on in the campaign.
This column of mine appeared in the Prince Albert Daily Herald. To read the full article, feel free to click right here.
