Wild Night at the Enmax Centre..Canes' Win in Shootout

It was a wild, wide open game last night at the Enmax Centre as the Lethbridge Hurricanes pulled out a 7-6 shootout win against the visiting Swift Current Broncos.

It was certainly not a good night for the goaltenders on both sides on the puck. The Canes' chased Broncos starting goalteder Morgan Clark early in the second period. Lethbridge had a 6-2 lead late in the second until Swift Current scored two quick ones to make 6-4 at the end of two periods.

Swift Current finished off the comeback in the 3rd, scoring twice more including the tying goal with just over a minute remaining to send the game to overtime and eventually a shootout. Mitch Maxwell and Cam Braes each scored in the shootout to win it for the Hurricanes . The Broncos failed to score on two tries.

It sure wasn't pretty, but the Hurricanes will take the win and the two points. Maybe a bit of lesson in this game too. Don't let your guard down even when it looks like you have a comfortable lead. We had the newest Hurricane Dustin Donaghy on our post-game show last night. He agreed that the Hurricanes got a little too relaxed with a 6-2 lead and said the game should never had got to a shootout in the first place. I would certainly have to agree with that. No lead in safe in the WHL. Brandon Anderson would like to have a few of those goals back I'm sure, no question but he can't be fully faulted for why Swift Current managed to come back. You can't crack the door open even the slightest and give a team a chance to come back, because sometimes if you do they'll take full advantage of it and last night the Broncos did just that. Give Swift Current credit too, they managed to claw back when things weren't looking too good.

Carter Bancks and Austin Fyten each scored twice for the Hurricanes, while Justin Dowling had a pair for the Broncos. Bancks' goal was scored short-handed, which is the first shorty for the Lethbridge this season. The Canes' other goals were scored by Brody Sutter and Max Ross. One thing Fred and I have been talking a lot about recently has been secondary scoring, or the lack there of for Lethbridge, but not last night. Goals by Sutter, and Ross were key. The Canes' will need those guys and a few others to chip in from time to time as this team tried to get itself back into a playoff spot. The Canes'now tra il the 7th place Broncos by 6 points.

With the win, they improve to 7-11-0-2 on the season with 16 points. I would say it was a pretty good night over all. The Hurricanes win and the Saskatchewan Roughriders win first place in the CFL's Western Division for the first time in 33 years! Can it get any better than that?? I think not!!

Hurricanes This Week Monday

Another busy show planned for Monday night. Hurricanes Defenceman Mike Reddington will be on the program off the top, then Fred and I will have a sit down with Ashley Matthews, the GM at the Enmax Centre to give us an update on the ongoing renovations at the facility and then in the last part of the show we'll go to Calgary and speak with Hitmen play-by-play voice Brad Curle to set up Tuesday's contest between the Hurricanes and Hitmen. The show is on the air at 6pm and any comments or questions can be e-mailed to hurricanes@pttwireless.ca or you can call into the program at 403-388-4646.

Thanks,
Pat