Tanner Howe’s goal 16 seconds in to the third period broke open up a 2-2 tie and ended up being the game winner as the Regina Pats defeated the Lethbridge Hurricanes 4-2 on Monday afternoon.
Howe’s goal was the conclusion of a nice passing play created by Connor Bedard and Stanislav Svozil
🚨 HOWE ‘BOUT THAT🚨
Tanner Howe finishes off a pretty passing play to give us the lead early in the 3rd!
Bedard –> Svozil –> Howe –> Back of the Net 👊#LegendsInTheMaking | #REGvsLET pic.twitter.com/rZl31mMPVP
— Regina Pats (@WHLPats) February 20, 2023
Rounding out the scoring for the Pats was Svozil, Braxton Whitehead and Zane Rowan.
It was a big day for Svozil as he was playing in his 100th career game.
Bedard and Tye Spencer each had a pair of assists.
Drew Sim rebounded from taking the loss on Friday night as he made 28 saves to earn the victory between the pipe for Regina.
Assistant Coach Brad Herauf said that Howe’s goal was spectacular.
“Those are the goals we are able to score, not many teams, not many players can score those goals. ”
Whitehead’s goal was the result of Pats second power-play unit hard work said Herauf.
“That second unit they’ve been practicing really well for the last couple of weeks and they’ve been doing that in practice quite a bit, then they get the opportunity to do that and it’s great to get that unit going. ”
Herauf added that Sim’s effort is further evidence that he is continuing to mature into a number one goalie.
“He’s got the talent, he’s got the ability just him learning to be a number one goalie, him managing his body to take a workload of a number one goalie. ”
Sim says he was happy to bounce back on Monday afternoon.
“I felt I haven’t been good enough probably the last six or seven starts and I’ve been ended up getting wins because of a lot of run support and I’m grateful for that but something like that feels really good.”
Today’s game was played before a sold-out crowd at the Brandt Centre.
With the win, Regina improves their record to 26-24-2-1 with 55 points.
On Wednesday night, the Pats will host the Medicine Hat Tigers at the Brandt Centre. With a win on Monday as well, the Tigers also have 55 points.
Coverage of the game begins at 6:35, Dante De Caria will have the play-by-play beginning at 7:00.
