After a very busy trade deadline day for your Drumheller Dragons, they also had to face the second place team in the AJHL South Division, the Calgary Canucks to top off their Friday.
Two of the new additions were in the lineup for the game, Brec Christenson and Tristan Payne. The last time these two teams met in Calgary, the Canucks would dominate the game with a 6-3 win. Drumheller was looking for a better result in front of their home crowd.
The first period would be pretty even with both teams having a power play opportunity but neither team would find the back of the net and the game would remain tied 0-0 after one period.
Drumheller would have a number of penalties called against them in the second period but Calgary could not score. The only goal of the second would come at 9:10 when Dragons forward Allen Sherpa scored his 6th of the year, from new Dragon Tristan Payne and Luca Dufour. Drumheller would take the 1-0 lead into the third period.
Again, the Canucks would have power play chances but the Dragons continued to stymie Calgary’s special teams. The Dragons would have their own power play chances but could not add to their lead. Calgary would pull goaltender Lukas Renaud and Drumheller would seal the deal when Kai Matthew scored his first of the season after coming back to the Dragons from the Kamloops Blazers of the WHL, unassisted, making the final 2-0. With the shutout by Dragons goaltender Sean Cootes, he ties the Dragons all time record of shutouts by a goaltender with 7, tying Jonathan Larose. It took Larose 114 games to do so, Cootes has done the feat in only 47 games played!
Cootes will look to break the record this upcoming weekend with two games on the road. Your Dragons are in Olds on Friday to face the Grizzlys at 7 PM. Then Saturday, with the whole country looking in during Hockey Day In Canada in Canmore, the Dragons face the Canmore Eagles at 7:30 PM. Both games can be heard on the home of the Dragons, New Country 92.5 with Jason Blanke and Boedy Shields.
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