Head to Head
This is the 3rd of 4 meetings of the season between the Red Deer Rebels and the Regina Pats, their first was in early October in a heart breaking 6-5 loss to the Rebels. The Pats had a 5-2 lead heading into the 3rd, but the Rebels scored 4 straight times, including the overtime winner for the 6-5 win. Thomas Frazee scored his first ever career hat trick and added an assist in the loss, while Myles Bell picked his 4th goal of the season.
This is the first time that these two teams have met since a mid-November trade that saw the Pats pick up forward Lane Scheidl from the Rebels in exchange for goaltender Dawson Guhle.

In their last meeting, the Regina Pats found themselves down 2-1 late in the 3rd period December 11th in Red Deer. With 18.3 seconds left Pats captain Garrett Mitchell slid the puck just past former Pat goaltender Dawson Guhle to send in to overtime. In extra time, the Pats were able to kill off a 4-on-3 Rebel power play and force a shootout. Jordan Weal, Colin Reddin and Thomas Frazee all scored in the shootout, while Matt Hewitt had to just stop one of three Rebel shooters for his third win of the season.
2010-11 Against the Rebels:   
                          GP      G       A      Pts.
Myles Bell              2       1       2       3
Brandon Davidson   2       0       2       2
Jordan Weal           2       1       1       2
Andrew Rieder        2         1      1       2

Specialty Teams:
Power Play – 2/11 – 18.2% (0 shga)
Penalty Killing – 13/16 – 81.3% (0 shg)

Last Action:
For the second time in three games, the Regina Pats had to come back from a 3-1 3rd period deficit to steal a 4-3 shootout victory. 5 minutes into the 3rd, Lane Scheilr scored his first ever Pat goal to cut the Hitmen lead to 3-2 and with 5:16 left, Jordan Weal’s 19th of the season tied things up at 3’. Overtime solved nothing, so the Pats went to their shootout Kings in Weal and Colin Reddin. Both WHL vets scored, while Damien Ketlo stopped 2 of 3 Hitmen shooters for the 4-3 victory and the Pats third straight win and 4th in 5 games.

Injury Report:
Nils Moser (Knee) – Day to day
Tyler Pavkovich (Concussion) – Indefinite
Chandler Stephenson (Leg) – Day to Day
Games lost due to injury – 37
News and Notes

Number 600 for Hunt:
Tonight is Regina Pats head coach, Curtis Hunt’s 600th career game as a head coach in the WHL  he has accumulated the games between both the Moose Jaw Warriors and the Regina Pats. This puts him in  the top-20 all time amongst WHL coaches.

1st Canadian Outdoor Junior Game:
On Monday, February 21st, 2011, the Regina Pats will take on the Calgary Hitmen at McMahon Stadium in Calgary for the first ever outdoor junior game. Tickets will be $12 and $15 apiece and ticket packages are available at the Pats office by calling 522-PATS. The Pats will be wearing a jersey much like they wore during the 1950’s when they were the junior affiliate of the Montreal Canadiens.

U-17’s:
Chandler Stephenson and Pat prospect Landon Peel both finished playing for Team West at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge in Winnipeg. Stephenson finished with 4 goals and 2 assists for 6 points while Landon Peel finished the tournament with an assists.

Top Prospect:
17 year old Regina Pats defenceman, Myles Bell has will be playing in the CHL Home Hardware Top Prospects game on January 19th at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. The Pats have been well represented over the past few seasons:
2010: Jordan Weal – Team Cherry
2008: Colten Teubert, Jordan Eberle – Team McDonald/Vernon
2007: Nick Ross, Linden Rowat – Team Burns/Bergeron

At the Mac’s
The Pats had 12 players from their 50 man list played in the prestigious Mac’s Midget Tournament in over the Christmas season in Calgary. Two players, Morgan Klimchuk (1st rd, 2010) and Mitchell Fyffe (list) played in the tournament all-star game. Goaltender, Cory Nygarrd was fantastic for the Winnipeg Wild, going undefeated at 3-0 and got the Wild into the semi-finals. Other highlights include Demico Hannoun of the  Greater Vancouver Canadians with 2 points and 12 penalty minutes in 5 games, and Ty Mclean of the Tisdale Trojans picked up 6 points in 4 games

Jordan Weal:
The 18 year old Pats forward is proving to the rest of the WHL that last season wasn’t a fluke. He is tops in every Pats offensive category and is in the top 5 in WHL scoring and assists. He is on pace to break the 90 point plateau for the season

Spengler Cup:
Team Canada lost in the finals of the Spengler Cup in Switzerland, losing to SKA St. Petersburg 4-3. Over the tournament, former Pat, Josh Holden picked up three goals over the 4 game tournament, including a game winning goal.

Streaking:
*Jordan Weal had a 5 game goal streak end last night, but is on a 6 game point streak and has points in 11 of his last 12 games
*Colin Reddin had a 5 game assist streak end Tuesday night against Swift Current
Milestones
*Jordan Weal scored his 70th career WHL goal Sunday against Calgary.
*Garrett Mitchell is 1 minute away from career 400
*Brandon Davidson is 1 game away from 100 in his WHL career
*Colin Reddin is 10 points away from 100 in his WHL career
*Andrew Rieder is 1 away from his 100th career WHL game
*Shayne Neigum is 31 penalty minutes away from 500 in his WHL career and has 3 goals and an assist in his first 4 games as a Pat

Team Make-up:
16 Year Olds (94) – 1 (Stephenson)
17 Year Olds (93) – 8 (Bell, Pavkovich, Sagen, Stevenson, Ouellette, Borstmayer, Moser, Martell)
18 Year Olds (92) – 9 (Blidstrand, Roznik, Muench, Jung, Rieder, Weal, Hewitt, Scheidl, Olstad)
19 Year Olds (91) – 4 (Bidlevskii, Davidson, Mitchell, Ketlo)
20 Year Olds (90) – 3 (Reddin, Neigum, Schneider)
9 (Saskatchewan), 6 (Alberta), 1 (Manitoba), 6 (British Columbia), 1 (Sweden), 1 (United States), 1(Slovakia)

Drafted Players:
Garrett Mitchell (WSH 6th ’09), Brandon Davidson (EDM 6th ’10), Jordan Weal (LA 3rd ’10), Ricard Blidstrand (PHI 7th ’10)

Divisional Records:
East (9-9-0-0) Central (3-5-2-1) B.C. (1-2-2-0) U.S. (0-4-1-0)    Home (9-10-2-1) Away (4-10-3-0)