By Matthew Gourlie Like the villain in horror movie, the Prince Albert Raiders refused to die and that terrified the Moose Jaw Warriors. In the end, that fear was what the Warriors needed to push them to play their best game of their best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarter-final series. The Warriors […]
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Raiders force Game 7 against Warriors
On Easter Sunday, the Prince Albert Raiders’ playoff dreams were resurrected once more. The Raiders stove off elimination for the second time in 24 hours and forced a Game 7 in their Western Hockey League Eastern Conference quarter-final series against the Moose Jaw Warriors. Cole Fonstad’s second goal of the […]
Resilient Raiders refuse to die; force Game 6
By Matthew Gourlie The Prince Albert Raiders were not ready for their season to be over. The Moose Jaw Warriors were not ready to meet the level of desperation that the Raiders brought Saturday night at Mosaic Place. The Raiders were the hungrier team in Game 5 and their 5-1 […]
Warriors stun Raiders with late rally and OT winner
The Moose Jaw Warriors scored twice in 47 seconds with their goalie pulled to force overtime Tuesday night. The Prince Albert Raiders never recovered as Brayden Burke scored 19 seconds into overtime to give the Warriors a stunning 5-4 win at the Art Hauser Centre in Prince Albert and stake […]
Warriors ready to begin title chase
By Matthew Gourlie The Moose Jaw Warriors won their first Scotty Munro Memorial Trophy this season as owners of the WHL’s best regular season record. Friday the Warriors will begin their chase for a bigger first for the franchise. Moose Jaw entered the season feeling this might be the team […]
Late win streak “small consolation” for Blades
By Les Lazaruk The facts are a tough pill to swallow for the Saskatoon Blades. They will finish the 2017-18 WHL regular-season with more points than five of the six teams in the Central Division and with more wins than four teams that will compete in the playoffs, starting Thursday. […]
Warriors clinch first Scotty Munro Memorial Trophy
By Matthew Gourlie It wasn’t a Picasso, but the Moose Jaw Warriors and Prince Albert Raiders got what they needed out of Tuesday’s game. The Warriors’ 2-1 shootout victory clinched them first place in the East Division and the franchise’s first Scott Munro Memorial Trophy as the Western Hockey League’s […]
WHL recap: Rassell nets his 50th and Tigers get the win; Raiders, Thunderbirds and Pats get key victories
Prince Albert 6 Moose Jaw 4 When you are the top seed in the WHL’s Eastern Conference and the playoffs are approaching, the last thing you want to have is the current team you are set to play against playing their best hockey of the entire season. Worse yet is […]
WHL recap (part one): Rassell nets 2 in Tigers victory; Raiders get key win
Medicine Hat 5 @Edmonton 2 Mark Rassell was sitting on 99 career WHL goals for four games. Since he got to 99 by scoring in three straight, it could have been that he was putting some added pressure on himself to hit that mark. He hit it in his fifth […]
WHL recap: Raiders storm Lethbridge 8-2
Prince Albert 8 @Lethbridge 2 The Prince Albert Raiders (24-25-9-2) needed to make a bit of a statement. They had lost five of six recently, all to divisional opponents and were starting a three-game road trip through Alberta. They did just that on Wednesday night, rolling past the Lethbridge Hurricanes […]
