Rebels beat Raiders in high scoring battle
Amidst news of the cancellation of the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship in Edmonton and Red Deer Wednesday, the Red Deer Rebels made it known that hockey isn’t over yet in Canada with an epic 8-6 win against the Prince Albert Raiders at the Art Hauser Centre.
Just 25 seconds into the first period, the Rebels’ Blake Stevenson scored his 10th goal of the season on goaltender Cole Tisdale, assisted by Jace Weir.
With the Raiders’ Tyson Laventure in the box for high sticking, the Rebels doubled their lead when Ben King scored his whopping 22nd goal of the season at the 7:20 mark. Arshdeep Bains and Christoffer Sedoff assisted on the power play goal which brought the score to 2-0.
But Prince Albert showed they weren’t going to let a slow start ruin their night. With 35 seconds left in the period, Sloan Stanick scored his 10th goal of the season on netminder Chase Wutzke, assisted by Ozzy Wiesblatt and Remy Aquilon.