It was a 6-1 victory for WHLPats over BladesHockey in Game 1 of their best-of-seven Western Hockey League Eastern Conference quarter-final series Friday night in Saskatoon. WHL
“Zack getting the goal — he’s got a fair amount of skill but he got hurt early and then he had a really bad collarbone break; he was out for 15 weeks with it — so it was nice that way and it was big.”
Bedard added two goals and an assist for Regina, which got outshot 28-25 yet scored two goals on only four shots in the second. “We’re happy with the win tonight it’s one game,” stressed Bedard. “It’s a seven-game series. We have to win three more. There’s a long way to go.” After Shantz and Bedard gave the Pats a 2-0 lead after two periods, Regina received a gratuitous bounce just nine seconds into the third when Riley Ginnell’s shot off the boards, from the neutral zone, took a wicked bounce off the stanchion to change direction, and the puck skipped past a bewildered Blades goalie Austin Elliott.Article content“We didn’t get one off the stanchion, so I guess so,” said Blades head coach Brennan Sonne.
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