REGINA, Saskatchewan — The Everett Silvertips had arguably their biggest win of the season Tuesday night. But Wednesday night they had their letdown.
Everett never got going Wednesday as they fell 3-1 to a decimated Regina Pats team.
The Tips came into the game on a roll. They won each of their first three games of their six-game swing through the WHL’s East Division, including a big 5-0 victory at Eastern Conference-leading Brandon on Tuesday. Everett then was facing a Regina team that just traded away its top four players and was also without its No. 1 goaltender because of injury.
But Pats backup netminder Tyler Brown played a solid game in net for Regina, making 25 saves to pick up the win.
Braden Christoffer, Pavel Padakin and Jesse Gabrielle scored the goals for Regina (25-12-2-1).
Nikita Scherbak scored the lone goal for Everett (24-12-3-1). Austin Lotz finished with 32 saves in net for the Tips.
Regina broke the ice on the power play 10 minutes, 29 seconds into the game as Christoffer put home a rebound.
Everett wasted little time tying it up as at 13:05 Scherbak fired a shot past Brown straight off a faceoff win to make it 1-1.
The Pats took control of the game in the second period, outshooting Everett 18-6, and Regina regained the lead at 16:54. The Tips turned the puck over in their own zone, giving Padakin the chance to score on a rebound and make it 2-1.
Everett tried to press for the tying goal in the third period, turing the shot totals around. But the Pats received the killer third goal with 6:42 remaining. Regina broke two-on-one, with Gabrielle taking the shot himself, and he beat Lotz to make it 3-1.
The Tips nearly got right back into in on the next shift, but Ivan Nikolishin hit the post square, and Everett wasn’t able to generate any more quality scoring chances.
Pats 3, Silvertips 1
Everett 1 0 0 — 1
Regina 1 1 1 — 3
First Period—1, Regina, Christoffer 14 (Padakin, Zborovskiy), 10:29 (pp). 2, Everett, Scherbak 19 (Low, Laurencelle), 13:05. Penalties—Padakin, Regina (tripping), 2:50; Betker, Everett (cross checking), 9:22; Padakin, Regina (high sticking), 17:35.
Second Period—3, Regina, Padakin 10 (Brooks), 16:54. Penalties—Stadnyk, Everett (hooking), 3:29; Zborovskiy, Regina (tripping), 7:29; Williams, Regina (interference), 10:00; Betker, Everett (high sticking), 11:17.
Third Period—4, Regina, Gabrielle 14, 13:18. Penalties—Leedahl, Everett (roughing), 14:50; Gabrielle, Regina (roughing), 14:50.
Shots on goal—Everett 8-6-12—26. Regina 10-18-7—35. Power-play opportunities—Everett 0 of 4. Regina 1 of 3.
Goalies—Everett, Lotz 17-9-1-1 (35 shots, 32 saves). Regina, Brown 3-3-0-0 (26 shots, 25 saves).
A—3,556.
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