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01-21-2008, 07:16 AM
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Monday, January 21, 2008
Pats 3 Hurricanes 2 OT
LETHBRIDGE -- Every once in awhile, things happen in games that make you realize just why you get excited for each and every Pats or Roughriders broadcast. In any given game, you never know what could happen.
The events of Sunday night in Lethbridge were one of those occasions. The Regina Pats rolled into Lethbridge carrying a five-game win streak and were hoping for a weekend sweep of this Central Division swing after a 6-5 shootout win in Kootenay Friday and a 2-1 triumph at Calgary Saturday.
This game was tight ... 0-0 after one period, and 1-1 after two. Tim Kraus scored the first Regina goal and Jordan Eberle put the club up 2-1 in the third. Carter Bancks tied it for the Hurricanes but late in the frame J.D. Watt scored the apparent go-ahead goal for the Pats on a 2-on-1 rush but it was waved off. The goal judge never turned on the red-light and the officials were nowhere to be found to verify. The Pats were riled and coach Curtis Hunt punched the glass between the benches so hard it almost shattered. They had to kill off a late penalty, and then they went to overtime.
2:55 in, Scott Doucet threaded the needle to Watt and he banged it home for the OT winner. Bedlam ensued. Watt immediately raced over to the ref and screamed in his face, "THAT'S KARMA!". The Pats spilled off the bench and mobbed Watt. Six in a row, and they crept to within two points of Calgary for the conference lead after the Hitmen lost 3-2 in a SO to Tri-City.
"That was just an incredible win," gushed Hunt on the postgame, "I walked by the Lethbridge radio guy on the way up here and I heard him say - these are not my words, but his - that the officials were in no position to make that call. So it comes down to the off-ice officials and that's sometimes what you get. But we battled all weekend and this was just a great win for us."
Seriously, a guy like Watt - a little touched upstairs but the most thrilling player to watch - gets jobbed on a bad call and comes back to jam it back down their throats. You couldn't write this stuff any better!
"That goal judge couldn't swear on that goal in a court of law!" yelled Watt, the Cremona, AB rancher, as he jumped up onto a jubilant Pats team bus after the game.
It was astounding stuff. What a thriller. And this Pats team keeps getting better and better.
The sky's the limit..
Monday, January 21, 2008
Pats 3 Hurricanes 2 OT
LETHBRIDGE -- Every once in awhile, things happen in games that make you realize just why you get excited for each and every Pats or Roughriders broadcast. In any given game, you never know what could happen.
The events of Sunday night in Lethbridge were one of those occasions. The Regina Pats rolled into Lethbridge carrying a five-game win streak and were hoping for a weekend sweep of this Central Division swing after a 6-5 shootout win in Kootenay Friday and a 2-1 triumph at Calgary Saturday.
This game was tight ... 0-0 after one period, and 1-1 after two. Tim Kraus scored the first Regina goal and Jordan Eberle put the club up 2-1 in the third. Carter Bancks tied it for the Hurricanes but late in the frame J.D. Watt scored the apparent go-ahead goal for the Pats on a 2-on-1 rush but it was waved off. The goal judge never turned on the red-light and the officials were nowhere to be found to verify. The Pats were riled and coach Curtis Hunt punched the glass between the benches so hard it almost shattered. They had to kill off a late penalty, and then they went to overtime.
2:55 in, Scott Doucet threaded the needle to Watt and he banged it home for the OT winner. Bedlam ensued. Watt immediately raced over to the ref and screamed in his face, "THAT'S KARMA!". The Pats spilled off the bench and mobbed Watt. Six in a row, and they crept to within two points of Calgary for the conference lead after the Hitmen lost 3-2 in a SO to Tri-City.
"That was just an incredible win," gushed Hunt on the postgame, "I walked by the Lethbridge radio guy on the way up here and I heard him say - these are not my words, but his - that the officials were in no position to make that call. So it comes down to the off-ice officials and that's sometimes what you get. But we battled all weekend and this was just a great win for us."
Seriously, a guy like Watt - a little touched upstairs but the most thrilling player to watch - gets jobbed on a bad call and comes back to jam it back down their throats. You couldn't write this stuff any better!
"That goal judge couldn't swear on that goal in a court of law!" yelled Watt, the Cremona, AB rancher, as he jumped up onto a jubilant Pats team bus after the game.
It was astounding stuff. What a thriller. And this Pats team keeps getting better and better.
The sky's the limit..