Disastrous Second Period Leads to Warriors Loss

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Maybe a scintillating penalty shootout-game winning goal was exactly what your Moose Jaw Warriors needed to flip the script on 2022. Although the previous nights match, the first of a home-and-home weekend duel with the Medicine Hat Tigers, was far tighter than the tribe would have liked, they still found a way to win and it was the captain, Denton Mateychuk, who did it with a flash of pizazz.

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However, maybe that flash turned out to be a detriment because game two couldn’t have been much worse for the home town squad.

Things started out similarly to game one. Moose Jaw got on the board first. In the third minute, early into their first Power Play. Brayden Yager beat the Tigers goalie with a zinger to the top corner for his 9th of the season.

Medicine Hat got one back late in the frame when Brendan Lee went down on one knee to get a little extra oomph on a one-timer.

The second period was bad for the Warriors. Medicine Hat scored four unanswered goals, taking advantage of an uncharacteristically off performance from Connor Ungar.

Connor Ungar has been spectacular all season, with the exception of the second period in Saturday’s game - photo credit MJ Independent)

Shane Smith went coast-to-coast on the first one. Brendan Lee notched a second one seven minutes later, finishing off a play that started with Medicine Hat’s goalie Beckett Langkow.

Then Brayden Boehm scored a pair, including a short-handed one.

Brendan Lee and Brayden Boehm each scored twice

The third period was a scoreless affair and just like that the Warriors dropped an ugly one to the 4-10 Medicine Hat Tigers. Final score: 5-1. A bad loss for the Warriors.

Moose Jaw certainly wasn’t outplayed. Not even in the disastrous second period. In fact, they out-shot the Tigers 12-10 in that period. Simply put, Langkow was the better goalie on the evening and Medicine Hat scored when they needed to.

Brendan Lee, Beckett Langkow and Brayden Boehm were the game’s 3 stars.

The Warriors will be at the Hangar on Tuesday to face Prince Albert.